tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post6251172696297494758..comments2024-03-28T11:38:44.676-05:00Comments on Phil Are Go!: Micro-Fluff! - What the flock?PhilAreGo@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719815455502184849noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-11054073693565826572014-11-12T12:55:56.327-06:002014-11-12T12:55:56.327-06:00Holy jeez! This is important to the post. I have f...Holy jeez! This is important to the post. I have failed, in my total lack of up-following on Nils. Post will be updated, stat! Thanks, CTB!PhilAreGo@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719815455502184849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-87744942179247094242014-11-12T11:51:28.901-06:002014-11-12T11:51:28.901-06:00A quick google search of Nels Irwin finds this: ht...A quick google search of Nels Irwin finds this: http://tinyurl.com/lqevsq8 which is probably the same "lucratized" man, convicted and sentenced in the same Los Angeles! Quite the entrepreneur! cyclotronboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15738769151141755148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-78916857670283247152014-11-12T10:07:06.254-06:002014-11-12T10:07:06.254-06:00I find it hard to believe that you tried to make a...I find it hard to believe that you tried to make a career out of flocking, Jim. Are you still at it? Did you become the head of a multinational flocking empire? If so, hats off to you!<br /><br />Also, thank you for giving me the word "spicules".I will use it at every opportunity.<br /><br />[-Mgmt.]PhilAreGo@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719815455502184849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-63421299181109332212014-11-12T07:03:56.808-06:002014-11-12T07:03:56.808-06:00ps) wow, I just remembered something else! Where I...ps) wow, I just remembered something else! Where I work there's a planetarium. The walls below the dome are entirely flocked in black to deaden noise and because in the 60's when it was built, apparently there was no surface less reflective of light than black flocking. Our tech guy claims this flocking, which feels pricklier than Suede-Tex, was applied with a special electrostatic process that made all the spicules in the flocking stand straight out from the flocked surface. Wacky stuff, flocking. Surprising that fewer people didn't jump on the bandwagon. As cool as it is, you'd expect folks would . . . well, flock to it.Jim D.http://thousanddollarshop.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-53748236825108164532014-11-12T06:58:25.851-06:002014-11-12T06:58:25.851-06:00Ouch. I have used the Don-Jer stuff. They had a ch...Ouch. I have used the Don-Jer stuff. They had a cheap version of the gun, which was basically two cardboard tubes that telescoped and blew the fuzz out a little hole in the end of the smaller can. I know, that's what she said, right? I used it to cover the insides of jewelry boxes with black suede-tex. Worked pretty slick, and the fuzz seemed to be too big to penetrate down to the alveoli. The real source of harm was the contact cement you first slathered onto the surface to be micro-fuzzed, suede-texed. I used black for my project, but back in the 90's there was an assortment of alarmingly fluorescent 80's colors, since crafters are usually at least 10 years behind. Thanks for stirring some fond memories of self-employment in an unheated cinderblock hovel on the outskirts of a small town in Georgia, Phil!Jim D.http://thousanddollarshop.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com