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Re: Carving Styrofoam
Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:22:16 EST5EDT
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> Someone was asking the other day about how to deal with knives in a
> classroom when carving styrofoam. I want to say that I made a deeply
> "carved" face in Homosote using sandpaper. I tried using a knife but the
> sandpaper gave me much more control. A rough grade makes it go very
> quickly. Sybil
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> Sybil Conn
> Pacific & Southwest States IG Jump: Pacific
Greetings:
My work with styrofoam, or which i've located many types BTW, has
often shown that one of the most effective means of shaping this
substance is through the judicious us of anohter piece of the same
foam.
Regards, John
Dr. John Antoine Labadie
Department of Art
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, NC 28372-1510
Wphone: 910.521.6618 (or sec. at 6216)
Fax: 910.521.6162
Hphone: 910.843.6266
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a
lost tradition."
Jacques Barzun
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