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Thanks... There's a smart feeling when you find a solution that's easy for you... A perfect fit, tailor made so to speak:)

If only to give humans options to go low-tech, for aesthetic satisfaction and possibly for surviving and rebuilding civilization if the house of cards of digital tech and global supply chains comes crashing down. It's 'antifragile' to have low tech knowledge!:) probably it should be low tech recorded in books too!

Thanks, can you elucidate? Rusty can? I'll have to google that.

I meant rusty CAGE sorry! pre Christmas brain!

Yes, the whole collection of trades in the old book industry was highly developed and yet still hand tool based.

Good point! I love the name and didnt question it. There will be a reason though! Ill look into it, since you asked...

So, i think the answer is found in the old joinery world, where there was a plough plane, which cut a groove in the timber by means of a protruding blade like a farming plough. The book plough also has a protruding blade, so even though its action is planing, its appearance is plough-like.

Nerdforge is a dramatic legend... I shared the lord of the rings binding conversion episode with my little grandsons, who were impressed.

Nice... I was dreaming of designs in my sleep last night... Something satisfying about a simple diy solution that is 1/10X in cost...

Thank you! Art is about sacred meaning, which is, we find, very beautiful.

And my main epiphany: clear the mind of anxious clutter, and that beautiful potential in you will emerge!

That's the spirit, never give up on the joy of creation!

Thanks for the feedback - good suggestions! Yes and if steps filmed separately with tripod i could join them in an editor (another learning curve but needed!)

Glad it's useful, there's so much potential out there!

Glad you concur... Any part in particular?

Im not sure... I question a lot of questions in a day, a week, a year!

Yes, i guess what im calling magical theism is at least mystical realism, in that we believe in the reality of much, most, or all of that which we contemplate in mystical states; also metaphysical realism in that we believe in the reality of the metaphysical realm, the realm of Plato's Ideas/forms. That realm I see as comprehensible by the rational level of our minds, but experienceable (?) by our mystical being in a supra-rational (but not anti-rational) mode. Plotinus in one flight of eloquent and difficult Greek somewhere in the Ennead (probably in many parts, actually - i just remember that one passage in a history of philosophy paper I did) describes a sort of virtuous-rational ramping up of a seeker's being to the very limits of his rational mind, and then going beyond it in a mystical experience. Wittgenstein too, in the metaphor of 'kicking away the ladder' (of symbolic, verbal thinking) once we're 'up in the heavenlies' (my words not his)...

Not strictly necessary but we thought for a public sculpture if it hardens the surface against possible graffiti cleanings etc its wirth it. However there's a drawback in that it tends to dull the pigments in the plaster... Some chemical reaction with the iron oxides...i guess substituting lithium oxide which is probably less colourful...

​@@wizardofeutopiathank you! Do you apply it after the cement has cured all the way after 28 days or before it's fully cured. Since it "hardens" the surface coat, is there a risk that it could cause delamination from the scratch coat or cause cracking by making the surface cure at a different rate? Can you still add paint/tint over a lithium coat? Thank you for all of your help! New to this and trying to take all precautions necessary.

Yes its good to follow your bliss! Measured pace is good too - I tend to race! Probably because I don't have the ruthlessness to say No to a lot of niggly jobs... And then I can get a bit scared to go back to my big bliss jobs - even though i love it when I'm doing them... Im going to write next to my long to DO list for this new week a to-DON'T list!

Stopmotion...hm thanks. Son robert used to do stop motion with pebble figures...

Yes .. I wish i could paint like that!:)

Sorry to hear that! I'll look up dangers of cutoff wheels. Of course all power tools can be dangerous... I guess metal diamond wont ever break up...but they arent as thin for quick cuts, and steel can/does blunten them... diamond is carbon and has a strange attraction to steel...

Thank you! 😊 The leaf could be a real autumn leaf but with raised writing on it.. a 'Passportal' Leaf in my fantasy story Apples of Aeden... The Tree of Life is so universal, usually that mould is for plaster casts, but its a whole new feel using flax paper pulp... The holy grail would be a carved book cover mould. .. Watch this space!

Glad you like the rainbow notebook! It's surprising what a lift it is giving me using it ... There's a long history behind it, going back to my philosophy days. Process theory, lots of diagramming, a thesis titled Process and Inquiry, recently a canvas walking labyrinth I'm calling the Lifetree labyrinth..and a clock, the phasetimer, for timing creative meetings - 'Tge living logic that makes meetings magical'. I started a blog about it www.4phase.org. If you want one of the first little batch either in pocket A6 size as in the video or the srA5 size, DM me or email me wizardofeutopia@gmail.com. Depending where you are i can send you a trial one before Christmas... I really must write an up-to-date sheet for using the 4phase method!

Thanks! Will do! Exciting to explore more...

Yeah she goes everywhere, understands sign language too!

Thanks for that ..it helps to put it all out and see what we've got and what not ..and get feedback.

Thanks .. and we aim to replace luck with knowledge... The more I learn, the luckier I get...

@@senseuall it IS exciting to find a positively foolproof way to avoid a 'sticky' problem! And save so much money you can try new applications and... Bigger! I plan to do a mould of the 8 ft wooden statue ive been carving for years then cast it in pigmented cement plaster so i can put her in people's gardens .... I will film that process too - will need a good Mother Mould to support the silicone mould and keep its shape...

Oh nice! So in what ways did it change your life? For me it was the realization that my business didnt have to be a 'factory' - it was more a workshop, Caring about Quality, and that made all the difference! Turned our lives around for the better AND the business..we even paid back my father in law!:) An economic miracle... I was even able to go study philosophy and my two staff worked to make the oval photo frames we specialized in , unsupervised...while i wholesaled them in the city and they even earned bonuses...

Oh yes Escher the mind contortionist!:) i wrote an essay in philosophy way back in Auckland university 'Presupposition and the Quest for Objectivity' and on the cover I had Escher's self portrait holding a mirror globe:)

Thanks! We can all find a little wizardry IF we look in the right way... Musing, relaxing, trusting there will be a way. The infinite 'Continuum of Possibility' (Charles Sander Peirce).

Glad you enjoyed it...feels good to contribute a little to the huge knowledge pool here on UA-cam.

Wow really? Thanks! It's one handed again...

Oh THAT word! It just came to mind... Call me old fashioned:)

Thanks..yes its odd how a seemingly not very useful breakthrough can have other unanticipated applications... With veneer id use exterior pva, stronger... And to answer your question yes i plan to edge roughen the sheets (in a pile) using a perfectly level plate glass strip with coarse emery paper glued to it. Important to keep the paper dead straight. It may not be strictly necessary to roughen but i always do it when binding my books.

Sorry! I need a camera person or always use a tripod.

@ I can understand that! You have a really unique channel and all is so new to me so I would really like to learn :)

Yep:) safe and cheapish and easy.

Ah,, quite a tight circle! I'd say may be too hard to roll such a curve this way- I'd go the other way, screw the barrel to a plywood or similar sheet, fasten the sheet to a bench or pin to the ground, then clamp the end of tge rebar to the lip of the barrel or alternatively poke into a hole in the barrel, tgen walk the rebar around the barrel...then as in my 'How to bend rebar into rings, fast' video, cut through the resulting coil of rebar with an angle grinder with cutoff wheel ..

Thank you sir

Me too! It just came in handy as a prop!

Thanks, my writerly sister and so encouraging!

Yes, from my sister up north!

@@wizardofeutopia loved digging for little pieces as a kid. Growing some good trees now down here on the west coast.

Oh may the US election go to the ones who don't think bigger government is better for us!

Me too! Not essential but does no harm:)