Blog Update

[ToddJohnson]

I've finally managed to update my blog today with an exploration of antique bakelite. Please have a look and feel free to share your comments:

http://todd-m-johnson.blogspot.com/2009 ... elite.html

Thanks,

Todd

[REH]

Interesting read. Bakelite is indeed beatuful stuff but I have only seen pictures.
How does it feel in your teeth?

[m.c.]

See, you didn't like the ornate lucite because it was not ornate enough.

[ToddJohnson]

See, you didn't like the ornate lucite because it was not ornate enough.

Huh . . .?

[Ryan]

Interesting read. Bakelite is indeed beatuful stuff but I have only seen pictures.
How does it feel in your teeth?

Very nice, it not as soft as vulcanite but not as hard as lucite. I personally love it!

[m.c.]

See, you didn't like the ornate lucite because it was not ornate enough.

Huh . . .?

The bakelite items on your blog are dazzlingly beautiful, and they out-ornate, IMO, the ornate lucite you eschewed. And they resemble some sorts of jewellry like agate, amber, etc. (not sure of those perplexing names of stones.) So, it takes some preter-glitz to bend the principles of the glitz-hating reserved gentleman.

Really attractive material. I have only seen dull-looking black/brown bakelite used for radios，stamps and combs. These simply don't look the same sort of thing. Just don't understand why it's not produced as much as decades ago.