more crumbly (and IMHO harder to deal
> with)?


Please say it isn't true !!

Brian
TeamGreenDragon

There appear to be two different formulations of the pink stuff.
This is a cut 'n paste from a message I posted in August (Caution -
The Pink Stuff, 8/25/02):

>Be careful when buying the Speedball Speedy-Stamp
>pink carving material. There are two different types!

>Deciding this was my carving medium of choice, the
>other day I went to my local Hobby Lobby and picked up
>three 4 x6 pieces and an 8 x 12 piece. I quickly used
>up the first 4 x 6 piece and opened the second, only to
>find it is different material than the first! It has
>a tacky surface and the inner consistency is harder to
>carve. Even after cleaning it up, my knife pulled and
>jerked -- didn't carve smoothly at all (even with a brand
>new sharp knife blade). The packaging is identical, but
>upon closer inspection, the coloring is a little different
>(the good stuff is slightly lighter in color), the product
>numbers are different (good stuff - 4108, year 2001; bad
>stuff - 4110, year 2000) and the bad stuff doesn't have
>the UPC imprinted right on the block.

My store was really good about it and took the bad stuff back even
though I had opened one package and started carving it -- the
composition difference was that noticeable, even to them!

I have since changed to using PZCut, which is cheaper and I have
found easier to carve and get consistent results, especially
with detail work.

Deb (SpringChick)


--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Randy Hall wrote:
>
> Anyone bought any pink stuff lately? Anyone notice it is slightly
> thicker, slightly softer and more crumbly (and IMHO harder to deal
> with)? Did I get a bum batch, or did they change the formula?
Anyone
> confirm or deny the rumors? I also noticed they didn't print the
bar
> code and other stuff on it like they usually have in the past.
>
> Cheers