With travel, it'd be 5 days which I just can't get away for right now. Please let us know when the next one is, I am very interested. I've gone through a lot of gold, glass & glue trying to teach myself. This covers everything I've been experimenting with or wanting to. Wish it as on the right c...

ICS is International Correspondence School. When it started, it was a real school, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It's pretty much a joke now, offering college degrees by mail. There is no longer a signwriting course. A while back there was a spread on some of the books for their signwriters curriculum ...

Is there a trick to getting the gold out of the glue chipped parts where it isn't suppost to be? I have a piece I chipped that I'm finally happy with. I wanted to do some 23 kt gold on some areas & surface gild some verigated onto others, mainly as an experiment. In hindsght, I probably should h...

I've been wondering about this for a while, great to see this topic. I'm going to try Darryl's suggestion. Mike, I had found the Outlook Express info for compacting and backing-up emails that you posted, but couldn't find anything on how to restore those backups if need be. Did you find out how to r...

Great tip with the marbles. When I was little, my dad built a lot of oak furniture. I totally forgot about him putting BBs in the cans (shellac, varnish, stain - don't remember which). I think it was to aid in shaking the can for the next use. Same concept I guess. Definately have to try that to sav...

Thank you Larry. I will definately be printing this out for easier reference.

I've done a few that came off in sheets like that. I think part of my problem was the glue layer was too thin.