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Feathers
During our summer vacation, I found a couple of beautiful feathers. One
of them is almost certainly a wild turkey's, and the other may be an owl's. So... how do I go about writing with them? I haven't snipped anything off the quill end yet, but I did poke an opened-up paper clip into the open end to clean it out a bit. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit Linux 0.1-9RC1-G |
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"John B. Egger" writes:
During our summer vacation, I found a couple of beautiful feathers. One of them is almost certainly a wild turkey's, and the other may be an owl's. So... how do I go about writing with them? I haven't snipped anything off the quill end yet, but I did poke an opened-up paper clip into the open end to clean it out a bit. Well, besides cleaning them out and making sure that they are nice and neat, you'll have to do some cutting to make them the right shape. I have done that, but I can tell you it's no easy task on the first try. Make sure you have a sharp razor and check out some diagrams and pictorial instructions. Even after that, it takes some care to use. Good luck! Aaron -- +++++++++++++++ ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) +++++++++++++++ Email: | WWW: http://www.sacrideo.us Scheme Programming is subtle; subtlety can be hard. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++ |
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On 2008-08-31, Aaron W Hsu wrote:
"John B. Egger" writes: During our summer vacation, I found a couple of beautiful feathers. One of them is almost certainly a wild turkey's, and the other may be an owl's. So... how do I go about writing with them? I haven't snipped anything off the quill end yet, but I did poke an opened-up paper clip into the open end to clean it out a bit. Well, besides cleaning them out and making sure that they are nice and neat, you'll have to do some cutting to make them the right shape. I have done that, but I can tell you it's no easy task on the first try. Make sure you have a sharp razor and check out some diagrams and pictorial instructions. Even after that, it takes some care to use. did you temper them too? |
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Matthew writes:
did you temper them too? For myself I never did temper them. :-) My bad, of course, but I guess at the time when I was doing them, they wrote well enough without it. I would temper them again if I managed to get a hold of a decent feather I liked. Aaron -- +++++++++++++++ ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) +++++++++++++++ Email: | WWW: http://www.sacrideo.us Scheme Programming is subtle; subtlety can be hard. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++ |
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Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
Matthew writes: did you temper them too? For myself I never did temper them. :-) My bad, of course, but I guess at the time when I was doing them, they wrote well enough without it. I would temper them again if I managed to get a hold of a decent feather I liked. Aaron How does one temper a feather? -- --John Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit Linux 0.1-9RC1-G |
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On 2008-09-01, Aaron W Hsu wrote:
Matthew writes: did you temper them too? For myself I never did temper them. :-) My bad, of course, but I guess at the time when I was doing them, they wrote well enough without it. I would temper them again if I managed to get a hold of a decent feather I liked. I've never done it myself, but if I come across a decent feather. One source might be the tradtional archery crowd, but I think they may get theirs from slaughter houses... Personally, I don't see myself hanging outside a turkey farm for scraps. matthew |
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On 2008-09-01, John B. Egger wrote:
How does one temper a feather?A They way I saw in the the youtube video I posted a while back was with a can of warm sand. Which is actually I good way to temper all kinds of stuff. IMS, the quill end of the feather was inserted into a can of hot sand until the desired result occured. matthew |
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Peacock Feathers for FPN'ers
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:15:12 +0000, Matthew
wrote: On 2008-09-01, Aaron W Hsu wrote: Matthew writes: did you temper them too? For myself I never did temper them. :-) My bad, of course, but I guess at the time when I was doing them, they wrote well enough without it. I would temper them again if I managed to get a hold of a decent feather I liked. I've never done it myself, but if I come across a decent feather. One source might be the tradtional archery crowd, but I think they may get theirs from slaughter houses... Personally, I don't see myself hanging outside a turkey farm for scraps. The ****nuts of FPN would probably prefer peacock feathers. That way they could post threads about what ink to match to their feathers. Speaking of FPN, have they started censoring idiots? I haven't been around there much at all, but I have looked in a few times for a few minutes--mainly because I'll find out about Nathan's new Baystate color there quicker than I will here--but anyway, I didn't notice any really rank stupidity in any of my visits--just normal FPN stupidity all over the place, but none of the total and all out rank stupidity that FPN is so well known for. |
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"John B. Egger" wrote in message . .. During our summer vacation, I found a couple of beautiful feathers. One of them is almost certainly a wild turkey's, and the other may be an owl's. So... how do I go about writing with them? I haven't snipped anything off the quill end yet, but I did poke an opened-up paper clip into the open end to clean it out a bit. Do they have to be treated for mites? How do you do that? I'm thinking of the cricket cages that aren't imported anymore because of the little nasties stowing away in the wood. -- ~~Bluesea~~ Spam is great in musubi, but not in email. Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply. |
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