Many years ago a friend worked in a boatyard carefully disassembling new Mahogany bookcases for the lumber to repair boats. Exporting countries would only allow finished products to leave the country so, special bookcases.It's a sustainable hardwood, very similar to Mahogany in all its characteristics. Mahogany like Ivory is on the CITES prohibited list for International trade. A friend sold some British book-form plate holders to someone in the US on eBay last year, because of the Mahogany description they were seized by US customs, despite being pre-WW2, and long before any ban.
I buy what is called Mahogany, but other suppliers say "Mahogany/Sapele". I have genuine Mahogany from a friend's timber yard, but as Fred Gadolfi says in a video there are various grades, he was on a double-decker London bus to the wood yard. Low grade Mahogany is similar to cheap box wood, and this is what Graflex and other manufacturers used when wood work was covered by leather or imitation leather.
What really matters is I can match what's sold as Sapele/Mahogany to Victorian/Edwardian cameras, in terms of colour and wood grain, I do a lot of restoration work. I experiment when making my own lens boards.
The funky one at the front is actually plywood, ebonised with Iron Acetate, and some help with Tannin from billing up old tea bags and applying to the wood surface.
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I bought some Wolfen NP100. Could not resist because of the summer sale discount.
You lose stuff when you need it, then find said lost stuff when you dont
When one looses things, they will find it in the last place that they look.
250g hydroquinone
50g Phenidone A
1 lb sodium carbonate
Making some H&W control.
I need to find a place to get 100 mL bottles though…
Check with your local pharmacist.
I also just realized that I need a 0.01g scale…
I also just realized that I need a 0.01g scale…
Unfortunately not precise enough for me. I have one on the way that should hopefully work.I have two kitchen scales that read in 0.1g (up to 500 g, then 1 g up to a couple kg); they run on 9V battery with good life and cost about $20 on Amazon. I bought the first for making coffee; after using it a few times, I bought the second for my darkroom.
Unfortunately not precise enough for me. I have one on the way that should hopefully work.
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