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Old 04-02-2015, 05:05 PM
Ned Milburn Ned Milburn is offline
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There's a craft shop down town that caters to spinners, weavers and knitters. They always have wool around, often raw wool that has not even been washed. The lanolin in it acts as an extra lubricant. All I have to do is walk in and ask and they'll give me a little bag of wool. I dropped off the scraps from a pernambuco guitar a while back in return, and they were happy to get them: it was used as a dye wood long before they made violin bows out of it.
I think we have some locally grown and made wool in Nova Scotia. I'll see about getting a wad of wool from them. Interesting about the lanolin! Thanks.
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Old 04-03-2015, 02:38 AM
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In the UK, the "rubber" was always referred to as a "fad" by the polishers of my acquaintance. Don't know if this is a regional thing or not.
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