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    Props For Hot l Baltimore

    I am looking for a telephone switchboard for two productions of The Hot L Baltimore. I have no idea of where to begin looking online. I have exhausted all resources I have here. If you don't know where I can rent or borrow one from, Would anyone have any ideas of how to make one? It doesn't...
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    Hellos

    I did have a really wierd teacher. But awesome at the same time. I am working on many shows right now. I'm almost done with my BFA degree and I've tried to take all the work I can. Most recently (today actually) I finished work scenic painting and make-up designing for Wizard of Oz. Right...
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    broken brushes

    Thanks Charlie. I thought that I saw somewhere, some time that if you should wrap the ferrule in solder and then use more solder to attach the wrap to the existing ferrule. I don't remember exactly where I saw it, so I wasn't sure if I dreamed it or not.
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    broken brushes

    I have spent all night looking for this on here so if it's been answered already I'm sorry. I have three broken 1 inch lining fitches. I believe that the brushes have been left in water too many times and the bristles are expanding so much that the metal ferrule is splitting. The bristles...
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    I have oil base in my brush...

    You can restore a dried Latex brush with some Murphy's Oil Soap and some warm water too. The soap is for cleaning wood floors so it has vegetable oil in it. The oil softens the paint and it can be brushed right out. Plus the very little oil residue left in the bristles makes it so the paint...
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    paint thinner on latex paint

    I forgot this too. Thin with water or a clear latex to make a stain. It just depends on how you want to use the stain as to which is better.
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    paint thinner on latex paint

    I would be careful of putting thinner on any brush that you plan on using for latex. It will curdle the paint and ruin the brush. You should always have seperate brushes for oil and water based paints. On the subject of cleaning, soap and water and a brush comb, or brass bristle brush. Ivory...
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    Hellos

    I'm not. When I was in High school our tech teacher made us watch it once a year and memorize specific lines which when finals came, the answers determinded whether we passed or not. I sort of blocked it out after that. the funny thing that generall set me off are inside jokes made from thing...
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    Hellos

    Hello all I am a student and professional just starting my "career", but not just starting in theatre. Most of my background is in carpentry and props, but I'm mostly an all around kind of person. I can already tell this will be a good place to waste time in rehearsals. Awesome Chandra
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