I've a pot of what is intended to be liquid hide glue cooking. I'm using Don Williams' method' and it is finishing the final cook period. One of the advantages of his method is using table salt instead of urea. With salt there is no shelf life limit, we will see if that is true. Once finished I'll do a test and report the results.
Not much progress on the table's base although the first M/T is fitted and I've started the mortise for the second. The reason for the slow shop time is MsBubba and I are on the roof every morning before it gets too hot, doing the every 4 to 5 year re-coat. The year is more work because we needed to pull the pool solar panels off to coat under them. Anyway, the solar panels are re-installed and we are down to 100 or so square feet of coating to go. What a miserable job, I feel for anyone doing it for a living. After the 3 or 4 hours on the roof my ass is kicked for the rest of the day.
BTW, Summer is here in the desert, no 100F+ days yet but they are coming and soon.
We are still sheltering in place and hope to do so for awhile. I saw a post on Digby from a "red hatter" dated 03/15/20 stating no government had the right to tell him what he can do. The second part was his death notice dated 04/15/20. Cause of death CoVid-19.
Be careful out there, hear.
ken
Some liberals theorize that "general interest" does not exist. I can not accept this.
ReplyDeleteI have seen on the news that, in Canada, people in a rest house were abandoned. This rest house will go bankrupt and a new one (better according to the believers of "the invisible hand") will replace it. So everything is perfect according to those believers.
In the mean time people died or were starving. Isn't that cynical.
Sylvain
Sylvain,
DeleteBack in the day, many long years ago, IIRC the term Liberal in Europe was at 180 degrees from the term in the States. I expect it is the same today. My field of study was the intersection of politics and economics. I no longer have the chops to make truly rational arguments in either field but I can still see/smell bull shit from miles away and the invisible hand is BS.
ken
I'll be very interested in your hide glue experiments. But I might have to wait a coupla years for the shelf life part of it ...
ReplyDeleteMatt,
DeleteI expect or should I say I hope you are correct :-).
ken
I mean "neo-liberals"
ReplyDeleteSylvain
Sylvain,
DeleteWe have had over 50 years of their BS all leading to Trump. The experiment is over and it was wrong.
ken