Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] NYTimes.com: The Do-It-Yourself Economy
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:57:53 -0600
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And I just love the challenges of the craft
and the results
with both ruling pens and rapidograph pens.
(and brushes and pencils and ?)

miss them on a daily basis

The beauty of hand made objects
of fine inks on fine papers.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Dec 15, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> Jeez, I was so glad to see the end of them.  My high school  
> drafting class required we use them to ink on vellum.  Getting a  
> clean line with no breaks or smudges was virtually impossible.  The  
> number of drawings I ruined as I attempted to get the last few  
> lines is place is uncountable.  That Senior drfating class was a  
> whole year of frustration.  Arghhh!
>
> I would have sold my soul to the devil to get my hands on a  
> Rapidograph.



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