Digital BW, The Print

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 02:05  PM, Alan Zinn wrote:

>
> Guys,
>
> Three questions:
>
> Do your coated prints have a nice tactile quality like double weight 
> FB?
> Will they hold up to the same handling as conventional prints?

Yes, Yes, but the prints are heavier than FB if you make them with a 
300gm paper.
>
> How is the wire wound around the mayer rod? I have a bunch of  glass
> measuring rods I might be able to use.  Maybe some really nice person 
> could
> scan a mayer rod and post it?
>

www.rdspecialties.com

Buy one.  They aren't very expensive and they are a precision milled 
tool...you would never be able to get there trying to make one yourself.

Robert