Every time I watch that video working there seems like it would be a fever dream..
I bet many French swear words were invented, working in that place.Every time I watch that video working there seems like it would be a fever dream..
Cant suck coticule dust through a cigarette. Everyone knew that back in the day. Safety first.I'm sure the constant stream of unfiltered cigarettes was to keep those guys on an even keel. That or it was their respiratory ppe.. Or both...
They were 35...It had to be dreadful.. Apart from that young boy at the lapidary disc they were all old guys who looked well and truly beat.
That's a rather odd combo when mixed together for gluing purposes, it would counteract one another's purpose, I believe?Hide glue mixed with beeswax is what I’ve always heard they used.
Possibly. I just remembered that’s what Bart from the old coticule forum always said it was. I figured he knew what he was taking about. Here’s a partial quote from Bart from 2009 responding to a question asking what kind of glue they used in the old days.That's a rather odd combo when mixed together for gluing purposes, it would counteract one another's purpose, I believe?
Good to know, thanks for sharing!Possibly. I just remembered that’s what Bart from the old coticule forum always said it was. I figured he knew what he was taking about. Here’s a partial quote from Bart from 2009 responding to a question asking what kind of glue they used in the old days.
“In the old days, they used a mixture of hide glue and beeswax, but that unless you were using really hot water, it wouldn't melt. Equally difficult to tell from a picture, but that "Blue" looks more like slate to me than like a real blue. Ardennes is the only company that ever glued to slate, and they don't use the hide glue/beeswax mixture. In that case, your hone is not a vintage one.”
I've got a couple it was used to fill gaps on, on the sides. Now to learn the historical recipes of this glue(have beehives, so I have bees wax) because I'm odd when it comes to that kind of stuff... I had a 90 year old gentleman, whom I love dearly, telling me how water lines used to be constructed. He said "you put the male side of the iron pipe in the female side and the you lay type in the groove and put some stuff on it, I can't remember what it's called." I said "oakum" and I got real scared because he looked like he saw a ghost. I'm really interested in those little details about how men produced what they needed, with what the had, in that circumstance/ locale. People who can take the garbage around them and turn it into gold will always be valued. Why do you think alchemists are a thing, for a long bit now?It did look like natural resin. I find it fascinating that it was still in use so late.
I would speculate that the glue failures we see with stones is probably due to high temperatures.
I thought the same thing. 1980s? Crazy stuff, hide glue must work. We got rid of a bunch of stuff that worked well in the 80s.It did look like natural resin. I find it fascinating that it was still in use so late.
I would speculate that the glue failures we see with stones is probably due to high temperatures.
Your not confusing natural resin with hide glue? Hide glue is applied in liquid form and resin or rosin could be like sap on a stick like in that video.I thought the same thing. 1980s? Crazy stuff, hide glue must work. We got rid of a bunch of stuff that worked well in the 80s.