I have met the proprietor of the Skull Shoppe on a few occasions and he takes his craft very seriously and it shows. He makes some of the finest skull reproductions I have ever seen. He offers various quality products that range in price to meet the needs from museum quality to the Halloween [...]
For years I have relied almost solely on one reference book in my shop
The Pocket Ref by Thomas J. Glover.
Now in its 3rd edition it is probably the most used reference book I have in my shop library. It is a cornucopia of information. It includes such things as:
Resistor Color [...]
Paintbrush care. Paintbrushes in the studio are a necessary evil. I find that I am constantly replacing them. I sometimes forget to clean them after a long night in the studio and they lie there drying all night on the bench top, the next morning they are encrusted in paint because I forgot to [...]
I was out and about today picking up some supplies for the lab and needed some acetone. I hate using toxic dangerous chemicals in my studio. I was at Tap Plastics and picked up this: TAP Replacetone http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=32 Its works really well. Like it says it doesn’t dissolve the resin, it causes them to [...]