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I hate to say this , but if you polish well, there will be NO polishing lines

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An update, unfortunately a Daguerreotype didn’t receive the Nikon Discovery Award, (although we got an honorable mention) it was great to be shortlisted . Digital photos won , there’s a surprise

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A good year indeed, well done Jonathan

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I did make one with white leds along the top, it looked rubbish compared to this . You have to be very good to make a professional looking item for show to the public , it needs to be unassuming.good luck whatever you do

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yes, As you can see it is glass, with an aluminium frame.The front doors are glass and lockable. The shelves are glass. At the top there are 2 small low voltage halogen bulbs that point down, (they) have some angle adjustment.The middle and bottom shelves have two lights each mounted on the front corners these have lots of adjustment. I have made black velvet liners to fit on each shelf to stop any unwanted light going where you dont want it. I had my first show a while back and had my dags in a big cabinet, they looked awful and I was embarrassed. This made me do research and I found this cabinet. I ordered it on the proviso that they would have it back if it didnt work. It arrived in a huge wooden packing case. I put a couple of dags in and plugged in, it was one of those moments sort of like the first dag , I knew it was right. What is nice is that it doesnt matter how bright the surrounding area is , it works ( apart from in direct bright sunlight).Picture doesnt really do it justice. Jonathan (shiny) has seen it and David Burder thought it was good.
It was about £350 if I remember right, a lot of money, but if you are showing to the public in ‘proper’ places I believe
that it it has to look the part.

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Picture of my dag cabinet at the Gallery in Cork Street. Mayfair
Notice Howard Hodgkin painting in the background, £900,000!

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I must admit that I never reply to anything unsolicited, so I am not going to reply to this . The name is generic and I do not see how anyone (in this modern era) could register it as a trademark.
Anyway just in case anyone else gets one we are one step ahead…

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Its all gone a bit quiet??
Must be the lack of light.
Anyway just a reminder of my show this coming week in London

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Thanks Jonathan, lets hope its not raining so hard this time!
I have also been shortlisted for the Nikon Discovery Awards 2008 , don’t know if a Dag could win
but it would be good eh?.Let you know 10 Dec 08…….

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slightly off the question, I just read that if you do not use a dedicated finishing mop that you will get small scratches from the glue that they use to bind the centre…interesting, I have mops that scratch and others that dont, that appear the same, now I know why.

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They told me what you quoted to beat me down, I didnt go as low as you, but did offer a free sample for them to check, a mistake I guess because the director decided that it would be too difficult to film, after they had picked my brains on how to display/film etc. Ah well, its an experince and I can stick my Anne Darwin backwards dag in the portfolio.(I wrote ‘sample’ with my finger before I sent it….very satisfying).

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too far for me I am afraid, perhaps you could give us a precis of thr
e events when you get back?

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they got a quote from someone in the states.

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In reply top your question Andy, cellulose is just ordinary car touch up spray from the auto accessory shop.It is now only available for classic cars in the uk as it is unenvironmentally friendly. I think any old spay paint will do just to seal the wood.It seems fine after 1 year, I do not leave my iodine in the box when I am not making images.

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I just sprayed the inside of my Pine box with black aerosol car paint (cellulose). Sometimes I think
too much time can be spent making the equipment look nice ,rather than making equipment that works and spending the time making images.

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I did not realise that there would be so much variation, I use rubylith and if the sun isn’t shining then I use a 150 watt halogen light, it does develop quite quickly

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My mercury pot is similar, The pot at the bottom lifts out and I put the mercury away after use.
I also drilled a hole in the side and welded some fine steel tube in at an angle so that I can insert a digital probe thermometer into the actual mercury. I heat everything that needs heating with a hot air gun (like a paint stripping hairdryer thing} I can control the temp easily with this. I have had a small alcohol fire in the fume cupbaord.Never again!

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Great Thread,First time lucky 7 mins @ 2.8 Becq. dev ….ages. Then many attempts with nothing!

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I use one of these that has a 20 or so square inch by 6 inch deep charcoal filter.
http://www.cleanairltd.co.uk/prod-ssr.php
It has wheels and is therefore moveable. It has a socket and a light. I keep all my goodies in it. I also wear a fine particle repirator when I am using mercury as a double safety measure. My hair has still alll fallen out tho’. Mind you it did that before i starting Dags!

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The info that Larry has given you is going to save you ages, I spent 3 months and 200 attempts before I got it.
You do however need to do quite a few until you get a feel for it ,which I believe is the best way. I think that there are too many variables in the preparation to exposure to be able to be too scientific as you can with control iso film.
There is no subsitute for experience and the rewards are very satisfying, Brenton

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Indeed David Burder did make the worlds largest dag. It was shown on the BBC programme ‘What The Victorians Did For Us’. He is a very nice, incredibly bright man , he came to the private view of my London show last month.He is also the worlds’ authority on 3D imaging.

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Great to meet and swap stories with Jonathan, although were both knackered it was nice. Also good to see and chat with David Burder.

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Oh yes , circular dags , been putting them in my carbon fibre boxes for years…Only joking!

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I never use stitched wheels, they are just too hard if you have deep pits use 1200 or finer wet and dry paper (use wet) then the tripoli, I do not know what the white is, the white we used to use was for perspex( plexiglass over there) You do need to slow down to about 800-1200 for that. You need something like this for the tripoli http://www.hswalsh.com/Climax_Mop and a swansdown type mop for the rouge

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Why use sterling, 999 is only pennies more per oz

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