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tinker

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Re: Dopping Stones
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2020, 09:56:02 AM »
Yes my experience too mate, I found the red was more flexible, where green was very brittle but lasted, I threw away the red because it had that flexability, do you think I should have stayed with the red.

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Re: Dopping Stones
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2020, 06:37:26 PM »
My preference when cabbing is the red/brown but the club is now using the green, which I've found OK, just doesn't seem to stick quite as well as the red/brown.
Common sense isn't exactly common

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Re: Dopping Stones
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2020, 12:47:43 PM »
If you are having trouble with the stones sticking when dopping mix up a bit of flake shellac with some metho and paint that on the back of your stone before you dop it. You don't need much just a bit in a small vegemite jar and paint it on with a cotton bud.


 

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