 tony banfield
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Quote: On 23/Feb/2005 at 12:33:48 AM twig wrote
I saw a hand foiler rigged up as a table foiler in a shop. Used a part from a Glastar table foiler to hold the foil and then threaded it through the hand foiler. All mounted on a board. Worked good and tried to set the same up at home but could not make it work very well.
I use the table foiler and by hand for the small pieces and tough inside curves.
When I had a lamp-sweatshop making foiled shades back in the early 80's, I came in one day and found that one of my girl-makers had put a cup-hook into the ceiling of the workshop, hung a long length of solder from it like a very long S-hook, and had hung her roll of foil from it at about the height of her forehead...she could unroll/dispense the foil and wrap (we all used fingers ...., no machines ior gizmos....all the time), but the curled tension of the backing-paper kept it in a spaghetti-tangle but up near the roll, and not getting in her way.
By the end of the day , all twelve artisans had copied her, and the place looked like a party the morning after all the streamers got thrown. I gave themn an extra helping of gruel for their initiative
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