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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (19886)	3/20/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Absent a plasma, a careful and practice can grind to the line. Letsdoit. Like your dip line. We, just "CAULK." :o)

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (19886)	3/20/1999 9:47:00 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I arranged the piece of metal on the garage floor with the aspect I wanted, then I used a magic marker which I had arranged on a block of wood with a wooden "finger" sticking out to give me the line. See, I wanted a really really clean edge. I mean REALLY clean. The first one I tried, I tried an industrial grinder, which cuts stuff if you use the edge. Worked good, but I could not get the line everywhere I wanted, and couldn't get the line really accurate. (Working with a mashed fender.) The problem with paint dipping a mashed fender is that you need a large amount of paint, and you have to be ultra careful how you dip, since you want a Very Specific Dip, and some of the spots on the fender would possibly be "lower than sea level" with no paint flowing in. But but but! Using my idea first, with the rough cut, I would then have something that I could place and support precisely on the ground. By tossing a plastic drop cloth on the ground first, supporting the edges, and filling it up with paint, you could raise the level of the paint after you have the sculpure sitting inside the empty pond, thus getting the pricise line you want with a minimum of wasted paint and effort! So your idea would, in fact, solve the problem! And Mr. Alex, thank you very much! I take back all that stuff I said about science.