Ever catch yourself not mixing the two components of Apoxie Sculpt, and instead applying only one of the components when you were distracted? Or come back the next day and realize you must have done that as the Apoxie Sculpt didn't harden?
I know I'm not the only one as I watched another taxidermist do it and one of my students did it. I was just curious how many of you have done this?
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No but I had to take a crap one time and forgot to pull down my pants and it took all day to get hard does that count Cecil
Maybe you should turn off the TV?
I did that Cecil. I was finishing up a bugling elk and came out the next morning to finish the airbrushing and realized the mistake. Had to clean out all that apoxie work and start over. Oh well, it turned out beautiful, just took me twice as long to finish!
That's called being retarded or stoned. LOL
But it's so God awful boring with the set off! I love those BREAKING NEWS things but typically the compressor kicks on and I miss what the hell is going on!
That if anyone has done taxidermy long enough and has used up gallons of the stuff would of done it more then once. I know I have once or twice.
But that doesn't mean much. Give it time.
I mostly just run sharpened wires into my hands.
Yes i have done it and cussed my self over it for ages.
I have no pride and it is with this lack of pride that I can confess that I once searched high and low for my sunglasses while looking through their lenses for them. I HAD THEM ON!
But one time I used 100% silicon to Back the fins on 5 Lrg mouth bass. I grabbed the wrong caulk gun. It took me the best part of 2 days to get the silicon off, then I had to repair fins and start over! lol
Tony J.
I've done that when I was rebuilding around the eyes of fish. I also "mixed" part A with part A of Epo-Grip liquid Fast Set...eh?! I had the two bottles beside each other and got a phone call. When I got back to mix in part B I grabbed the same bottle again...part A.
It really ticks you off after doing serious rebuild work. It is kind of funny knowing I am not the only one, though.
...made me think about it therefore I will never do it (never say never though eh? lol!)
Actually, IF you train yourself to mix it in the SAME ORDER everytime, it will never happen. I ALWAYS go in order: Part A first, then Part B. IF I get distracted and I see a blob of epoxy on the table , I KNOW it's Part "A". It's foolproof (Luckily, I'm a FOOL and it works for me - lol!)
I use to keep a dry-erase "status-board" when I first started out. But I've found that if I do all my tasks in the same order everytime, I'll always know where I'm at. Dumped the status-board and instantly gained an hour or two productivity a week just by NOT having to update the board...
but I'm no longer trainable (ask my wife). LOL And although I may not have the "God Given talent" Dave Toms has and "paint by numbers" as he says, I fit the artistic temperment to the 't". No order or disipline!
Yep Dave you'll never live those comments down ever again. LMAO
How many of you thought you had money in the check book only to find out you made a mistake adding or subtracting and you are overdrawn!
...is KNOWING you don't have enough money in the checkbook and floating that check til Monday anyway! (I use to do this in college for those $3.00 pitchers of beer - lol!)
mixed to same two apoxy parts but I have tried (unintentionally, of course) to mix Lifetone lacquer paint with Hydro-Mist paint. BTW, it doesn't work. LOL
BP
The first signs of arterial sclorisis Cecil.
of course I do that at least once a week,LOL