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1. 
   Eef | Jan 30, 2009 10:17pm | #1

   hastings,

   brush-baiting?

   eef

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   9619 | Jan 31, 2009 07:19am | #2

   Hastings,
   Why doesn't the Japanese brush maker just sub his work to the Chinese, who could do it for a fraction of the price. But then the Japanese wouln't be "Buying Japanese".

   Of course, it is possible that the Japanese brush maker got his idea for expensive brushes by studying what High-End woodworking plane makers charge. Yuk yuk yuk. Three cheers for Mr. Holtey. He is the guy who convinced me that I could fettle toothpicks until they are perfect and sell them for $2000 apiece. Of course, so far, this has not been working out. I may try the brush business, thanks to your message.

   Have fun,
   Mel

   Measure your output in smiles per board foot. 

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   Lataxe | Jan 31, 2009 08:07pm | #3

   H,

   And I thought I was an obsessive!

   In all events, I'll accept one o' them horsehair ones as a Christmas present.  Or perhaps you would like to lend me yourn to try, to see if I like it?  I'll only keep it a few months, although the ladywife may co-opt it for brushing olive oil on to this and that.  Also, the grandchildren do so love to paint.

   I do have a Liberon french polishing mop.  It was over forty quid, which is the most expensive brush I ever want to buy!  Still, it does work.  I believe it's just my technique that causes them runs and claggy patches.  :-)

   Lataxe, spent-up for the moment.

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   RalphBarker | Jan 31, 2009 08:42pm | #4

   Any brush not made with wooly rhino hair, straightened and softened with mammoth fat, is hardly worth having. ;-)

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   Shoemaker1 | Feb 01, 2009 06:17pm | #5

   I thought the mane hair from a wild Naugha was the best.

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   RichClark | Feb 01, 2009 11:54pm | #6

   I think, mayhap, Get our own Forest Gal to harvest a "knots Pile" of rump hair as she is amongst them so frequently? Then we send out the pile of loot to china for the making.Capt. Rich Clark
   --DUCT Tape is the "force"... It has a Light side and a Dark side and it binds the universe together

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   dougmeyer | Feb 02, 2009 04:08pm | #7

   All joking aside, what the heck is a "quid" I have heard the term all my live, and I know it has something to do with what those in England call money but I never have figured out what it means, or why it is called that or what it is worth.

   Doug M

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   Jimurock | Feb 02, 2009 05:50pm | #8

   A quid is a pound sterling, though the word originally applied to the guinea, which was worth slightly more -- 21 shillings compared to 20 shillings for the pound.  Nowadays pounds are reckoned in New Pence.  It's worth about 2 bucks, depending on what the beasts on the floor of the bourse decide on a particular day.  Nobody knows for sure where the word came from.  The usual assumption is the Latin "quid" meaning "what" -- perhaps "quid pro quo?"

   Jim

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   dougmeyer | Feb 02, 2009 06:06pm | #9

   Thanks,

   the US, Canada, England, and Australia, 4 countries separated by a common language.

   Doug M

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   mufti | Feb 03, 2009 01:26am | #10

   Good sir, in the days of yore the brave miners in the Yukon would not be without their quid of baccy for to squirt a stream of juice into the eye of the bear. T'other one is not used in polite society, being a slang term.

   Quid pro quo as they say in the Forum.