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Blog Update
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:01 am
by 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
Re: Blog Update
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:15 am
by REH
Interesting read. Bakelite is indeed beatuful stuff but I have only seen pictures.
How does it feel in your teeth?
Re: Blog Update
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:40 am
by m.c.
See, you didn't like the ornate lucite because it was not ornate enough.
Re: Blog Update
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:43 am
by ToddJohnson
m.c. wrote:See, you didn't like the ornate lucite because it was not ornate enough.
Huh . . .?
Re: Blog Update
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:44 am
by Ryan
REH wrote: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!
Re: Blog Update
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:49 am
by m.c.
ToddJohnson wrote:m.c. wrote: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.