Scraping stems

bvartist · Post by **bvartist** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:01 pm

The boards I buy have a shrink-wrapped plastic cover on them that has the grit marked on it.

I buy 'em at

Wal-Mart.

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:16 am

I get mine at Sally Beauty Supply, and they are marked with the grit size on the file itself. The white is 180 both sides, blue is 220/320, and the pink is 400/600. The white only gets used if I've been messy in my file work.

Post by **Tyler** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:20 pm

ArtGuy wrote: <snip>...but you never know with that guy.

Well...true.

staffwalker · Post by **staffwalker** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:49 pm

Thanks for the replies. I went to Sally today. Do they ever have boards marked by grit size and do they have many sizes? They do. I found one marked 8000 on one side and 12000 on the other, in all fairness, it was labeled for buffing use but it is still an emery board. Wow! I now have a selection of many boards rangeing from 100 to 800 grit and of course the afore mentioned 8000/12000.

bob gilbert

bvartist · Post by **bvartist** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:10 pm

I've got one labelled "Shine". I don't know what grit it is but it may be similar to the 8000/12000 one. Its a great little tool to give the stem an initial polish so I can see if I've missed any scratches before I begin buffing!

geigerpipes · Post by **geigerpipes** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:15 am

In all respect guys ...I'd rather use a knife than an emery board...I mean how cool is that

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:08 am

*grunt*

Ohhh yea! Me use knife! No stinking girly emry boards!

*grunt*

bvartist · Post by **bvartist** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:14 pm

But......If I use a knife, how can I keep my fingernails looking pretty??

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:21 am

FWIW, I've been filing for ten years now, and using a pair of knives (One long-bladed carving knife, and one short-bladed woodcarver's blade) for three pipes, and can definitely say that scraping has sped up my work. Just as good in quality, less time - a good thing.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:02 am

*assumes priestly countenence*

And on this day, low did Trever say unto his flock: FWIW, I've been filing for ten years now, and using a pair of knives (One long-bladed carving knife, and one short-bladed woodcarver's blade) for three pipes, and can definitely say that scraping has sped up my work. Just as good in quality, less time - a good thing.

Verily did we faithful pipe carvers add to the Book of Talbert.

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:43 am

You're a very silly person, Nick.

Where is the Holy Hand Grenade when I need it? !!

hazmat · Post by **hazmat** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:55 am

TreverT wrote:
Where is the Holy Hand Grenade when I need it? !!

And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu...

"Skip a bit, brother"

Right... And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.

ArtGuy · Post by **ArtGuy** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:44 am

That is some of the greatest comic writing in history.

hazmat · Post by **hazmat** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:19 pm

No kidding. Since I looked that up to post for Trever's amusement, I found a script for the movie as well and have been reading it off and on today. Killin me...

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:36 pm

Who needs to read the script, man? I probably couldn't manage it today, but there was a time when I could nearly quote that freaking movie end to end (I can likely still do that with Star Wars). We watched MP &THG nightly in high school, it seems like, back in the early days of HBO when they ran the same four movies every night for months on end.

Oh wait, they still do that now...

I've always had a gift for remembering movie lines, though. Can't remember shit from yesterday's French study, but I'm all over obscure genre movies for perfect recall.

"You'll never get credit for MY discovery. Who's going to believe a talking head. Get a job in a sideshow!"

Then again, I suppose it was natural for me to remember that, after the results of this quiz. I was so proud...

I am Dr. Herbert West, from "Reanimator." I'm right. You're wrong.

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hazmat · Post by **hazmat** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:33 pm

There's a good bit of that movie that I can quote from my head, but there's just as much that I can't always remember, considering all the other movie/book/tv show quotes I'm wasting space storing in my brain. I can quote Godfather 1 and 2 pretty much verbatim.. people won't even watch them with me anymore.

munkey · Post by **munkey** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:50 pm

Tyler wrote:It's unclear to me how scraping could actually leave marks, but I trust that it has for some.

If a thin blade is used, like a standard x-acto, it will skip as you scrape and mar up the stem.

Post by **Tyler** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:29 pm

munkey wrote:
Tyler wrote:It's unclear to me how scraping could actually leave marks, but I trust that it has for some.
If a thin blade is used, like a standard x-acto, it will skip as you scrape and mar up the stem.

Ah ha! Makes perfect sense. Obviously, I have only ever used heavier knives for the process.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:49 pm

Darn! I can't get the link to work Trever.

TreverT · Post by **TreverT** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:05 am

Nick wrote:Darn! I can't get the link to work Trever.

Hmm, it's either this one:

http://lnk.nu/quizilla.com/esx/

or this one:

http://lnk.nu/quizilla.com/esy/

I perpetually get either Herbert West or Ash on those things.