Frank Gaydos on sat 21 oct 00
Vince,
Banding comes in many thickness'. Usually equal to the task at hand.
I save the stuff that holds my clay orders onto the skids. (Thanks Judy!)
Makes great loop tools.
Heating and quenching helps harden it.
Price is right.
Frank Gaydos
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Subject: Re: homemade trimming tools
> > The UP railroad is replacing their ties here and the metal banding
> material is the............
>
> Jim -
> I have never used banding or strapping steel. It is not thick enough to
> make "kanna" - the Japanese-style trimming tools, > - Vince
>
James L Bowen on sat 21 oct 00
The UP railroad is replacing their ties here and the metal banding =
material is the right kind for making trimming tools. Unfortunately I =
only picked up one ten foot piece. There was a carload. I will try to =
track more down. My intention is to bring or send a hundred or so pieces =
to the Clayart room at NCECA for those who cannot locate a local source. =
I think 8 inches long is about the right length. What do the tool =
doctors think?
Earl Brunner on sat 21 oct 00
I'm not a tool doctor, but I think Bison tools are better.
James L Bowen wrote:
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> The UP railroad is replacing their ties here and the metal banding material is the right kind for making trimming tools. Unfortunately I only picked up one ten foot piece. There was a carload. I will try to track more down. My intention is to bring or send a hundred or so pieces to the Clayart room at NCECA for those who cannot locate a local source. I think 8 inches long is about the right length. What do the tool doctors think?
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Louis H.. Katz on sat 21 oct 00
Dear Jim,
I measured the length of my longest 2 ended tool and it was 10 inches, my shortest is about 7 inches. I used to make trimming tools and sell them to my class mates at the Kansas City Art Institute. Only made 40 or fifty of them.
Louis
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vince pitelka on sat 21 oct 00
> The UP railroad is replacing their ties here and the metal banding
material is the
> right kind for making trimming tools. Unfortunately I only picked up one
ten foot
> piece. There was a carload. I will try to track more down. My intention is
to bring
> or send a hundred or so pieces to the Clayart room at NCECA for those who
> cannot locate a local source. I think 8 inches long is about the right
length. What
> do the tool doctors think?
Jim -
I have never used banding or strapping steel. It is not thick enough to
make "kanna" - the Japanese-style trimming tools, and I always felt it was
too wide for making blades for normal band-loop trimming tools. But I know
there are lots of people who like to use it. I hope they will reply.
- Vince
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Millie Carpenter on mon 23 oct 00
I have been known to abruply pull off the road, back up on the shoulder and dart
out to grab this stuff on the road way, I do have a variety of widths and
thicknesses reserved for future use. some one out there has averaged my hands
with Vinces', and the tools that he finds too small, are way huge for me. so I
have Japanese style trimming tools that are comfortable to my hands. and the real
treat is anealing and quenching. I love flames, and that lovely sizzle sound when
the heated metal hits the water.
Soldner had a metal rib that he had made from brass sheet. solid and slightly
flexible. I will make one. I think that the ones that I have are too flexible
and because of the thickness of the metal, you don't get that knife edge as
easily. And his was large, as one would expect.
Millie in Md.
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