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twinthing
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Nov 7 2005, 10:35 PM Post #1 |
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Im so impatient, I dont want to wait for my stylus to cool down before I change the nib for the brush! so what do I do? I try to unscrew it while its still hot! oh that works ok because I have a screw driver with a magnetic tip! but what happens when the screw falls of onto the picture ive been painting and spins round melting a whole in the wax?ummmm! if that isnt bad enough I go to pick it up, get it between my thumb and fingers before my brain tells me its far to hot to hold and by then it has removed the finger prints from both didgets so I suggest that the hottest thing known to mankind is the screw on my stylus! ouch!
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Poppy
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Nov 7 2005, 10:47 PM Post #2 |
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It might be a good idea to unsrew it over a piece of kitchen paper, then you can just pick it up in the folded paper. I do. You actually get used to burning yourself, it acts something like a battle scar. The more it burns the better you like the painting I have a wicked sense of fun, I'd love to turn up to an E/A workshop or an E/A course with little bandages on all fingers and announce I'm the teacher, then tell them it's harmless! Just to see their faces!!! Trouble is, I don't think the college would approve of it, somehow. Poppy.
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mifmif
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Nov 7 2005, 10:56 PM Post #3 |
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I picked the whole thing up by the metal end when I first started waxing! Spent the rest of the afternoon waxing left-handed with my other hand dipped in a glass of water!
I found that you don't actually need to remove the screw completely to change tips. Much less fiddly that way. Just unscrew it half way and the tip should come out with a bit of help. Hope you didn't burn yourself too much! Maria xx
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twinthing
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Nov 7 2005, 11:01 PM Post #4 |
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I know now that I dont need to unscrew it! I think I have taken off the skin on my thumb and finger so many times that I will never grow a new set of finger prints! glad to see im not the only person who cant wait till the stylus has gone cool before carrying on painting! carry on waxing! now theres a title for a film! lol Catherine! xx
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mifmif
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Nov 7 2005, 11:11 PM Post #5 |
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OOOH, MATRON!
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Poppy
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Nov 7 2005, 11:12 PM Post #6 |
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The mind boggles! Poppy |
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jo145
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Nov 7 2005, 11:16 PM Post #7 |
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I was starting to think I'd put Encaustic art things on my Christmas list for santa, but I don't want burned fingers!
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mifmif
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Nov 7 2005, 11:24 PM Post #8 |
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Well...I reckon as long as you stay off the Christmas sherry, you should be OK!
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Heidi
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Nov 7 2005, 11:52 PM Post #9 |
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I've been there and I've felt that Just glad to read I'm not the only donky here
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Jenny
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Nov 8 2005, 12:07 AM Post #10 |
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Joan, just don't do what they did or add asbestos gloves to the list as well.
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Verlie
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Nov 8 2005, 04:01 AM Post #11 |
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How about taking an old potholder-hotpad and cutting some strips to make some finger things? Like sewers use thimbles for protection...maybe that would be too much work? I don't own a stylus but I used to and I am impatient also...
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Waxman
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Nov 8 2005, 09:29 AM Post #12 |
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Don't you all have tissues handy when waxing?! yes, of course you do - or someting similar anyway. Hold the hot things in a tissue! BTW, you only need to loosen the stylus screw quarter of a turn at most; when tightening, don't overdo it or you can strip the thread (ther's not a lot of it) and then it'l never hold tight! PS In light of the above, I have also scorched the fingers on occassion! These little setbacks never put any of us off though, do they? It's a good job we don't do pyrography or stained glass where much higher temperatures are involved! Poppy, that was a funny vision - you with the bandaged fingers teaching encaustic - as you say, the college probably wouldn't have seen the funny side though. |
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Nov 8 2005, 01:45 PM Post #13 |
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I always try to make sure that I only risk touching hot bits with my left hand, that way I won't feel it ![]() Yep, images of Poppy, fingers covered in neat little bandages tied in bows Could help you remember things too, Poppy
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twinthing



I found that you don't actually need to remove the screw completely to change tips. Much less fiddly that way. Just unscrew it half way and the tip should come out with a bit of help. Hope you didn't burn yourself too much! Maria xx
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Heidi

How about taking an old potholder-hotpad and cutting some strips to make some finger things? Like sewers use thimbles for protection...maybe that would be too much work? I don't own a stylus but I used to and I am impatient also...


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