Some of the old (17th-18th-c.) books describe covering shells with
pasted cloth, usually canvas. I have sometimes used pasted muslin or
cheesecloth bands to reinforce the joints of multi-break shells but
have never tried it for pasting a whole shell.
On Apr 26, 5:38=A0am, missmonkeysh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I told you last week about the young man with the toilet paper shells.
> Well, he showed me a new idea he was using and it was, in my opinion,
> ingenious. I'm sure some of you have already seen this, but I hadn't.
> It seems to work well, even though it might seem like more work at
> first. He had cut coffee bean sacks into like 7x10 sheets and simply
> pasted the two turns of burlap around the shell,. He had these little
> Dollar Store shears (which are supposed to be able to cut a penny) and
> he snipped the over-hanging burlap so it would lie down around the
> time fuse and also the bottom. He used then two turns of what appeared
> to be pasted liquor bag paper. When dry, he uses another liquor bag as
> his outer wrap to hold the lift.
>
> I have spent many, many years practicing the art and science of large
> canister shell building. We don't vary our materials or techniques
> much. There are very few areas within which we experiment, as the
> proven methods always prevail. Yet, what has caught my interest lately
> has been Kevin's experiments with household items; trash per se.
>
> Have any of you similar unusual methods?
>
> Regards,
>
> Regina
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