RE: [flasah] Casing
| "Once it does, from this point on the drying process seems to shift into high gear and it almost always dries quicker than I can finish the tooling. I always wind up having to add moisture to finish."--Dale Dale, You do not have a problem and you are not working too slow. As has been mentioned ... the moisture in the air and the temperature and movement of the air in the room affect the drying rate of the project. Put a fan on it if you need to for that ' looong ' initial stage out of the case. As to working slow... that is really not a problem if you use a water spritzer on the backside regularly. I have mentioned this with respect to the discussion about not gluing things to the back of your project... that shoots people in the foot right from the start because it takes away the option of spritzing from the BACK SIDE... Reread Bob Park's fine statement on the process if you do not believe me and the others who have been saying that rewetting the top side once stamping is started takes away crispness of the impressions. If things worked out that I hit the exact moisture content for not adding any water to a billfold back I figured everything had gone just right... but even with my speed at that time.... if I got a phone call or someone cut their finger and I had to go deal with that... simply spritzing took away the problem. My father carved many full sides... there is no way anyone , even trying to keep the unworked section covered could do those large projects without having to rewet...and he knew he did not want to rewet the TOP SIDE... so he anticipated the water flow from the bottom and spritzed regularly... many of his pictures took 10-14 hours at one sitting. He did not stop for meals... mom brought sandwiches and coffee....and of course he had nicotine to keep him going. Gregory B. Moody --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Wolvenstien <choochoocomm@
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