well, I just saw this cool photo in files of this boxers letterbox
holder in a rock. is this rock real?
where can one get these?
So cool.
AZ89A boulders
7 messages in this thread |
Started on 2006-08-31
AZ89A boulders
From: pilgrimsinthisland (byhisgrace@shaw.ca) |
Date: 2006-08-31 00:10:58 UTC
Re: AZ89A boulders
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2006-08-31 02:43:48 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "pilgrimsinthisland"
wrote:
>
> well, I just saw this cool photo in files of this boxers letterbox
> holder in a rock. is this rock real?
> where can one get these?
> So cool.
>
AZ89a is Ron Golden, a west coast Letterboxer. He hasn't been very
active for the last year or so. The "Fake" rock pictured was hand
made. Ron is a very talented guy. We had another west coast
letterboxer that made "Fake" rocks for many of his plants(Sir
Balthizar)(spelling?)and he too has dropped out of letterboxing. Now
somewhere Sir B posted a file, possibly at LbNCA, on how to make such
rocks. So if you are diligent and are successful in locating the
recipe please post it for everyone to see as the fake rocks I've tried
to make look very fake.
Don
>
> well, I just saw this cool photo in files of this boxers letterbox
> holder in a rock. is this rock real?
> where can one get these?
> So cool.
>
AZ89a is Ron Golden, a west coast Letterboxer. He hasn't been very
active for the last year or so. The "Fake" rock pictured was hand
made. Ron is a very talented guy. We had another west coast
letterboxer that made "Fake" rocks for many of his plants(Sir
Balthizar)(spelling?)and he too has dropped out of letterboxing. Now
somewhere Sir B posted a file, possibly at LbNCA, on how to make such
rocks. So if you are diligent and are successful in locating the
recipe please post it for everyone to see as the fake rocks I've tried
to make look very fake.
Don
RE: [LbNA] Re: AZ89A boulders
From: Jessie beach (redhookhouse@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2006-08-30 23:41:10 UTC-04:00
My grandmother has a "rock" outside her house that she bought to hide her
front door key in. I did a google search for "hide a key in a rock" and a
few options came up.
Jessoca
>From: "gwendontoo"
>Reply-To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [LbNA] Re: AZ89A boulders
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:43:48 -0000
>
>--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "pilgrimsinthisland"
> wrote:
> >
> > well, I just saw this cool photo in files of this boxers letterbox
> > holder in a rock. is this rock real?
> > where can one get these?
> > So cool.
> >
>AZ89a is Ron Golden, a west coast Letterboxer. He hasn't been very
>active for the last year or so. The "Fake" rock pictured was hand
>made. Ron is a very talented guy. We had another west coast
>letterboxer that made "Fake" rocks for many of his plants(Sir
>Balthizar)(spelling?)and he too has dropped out of letterboxing. Now
>somewhere Sir B posted a file, possibly at LbNCA, on how to make such
>rocks. So if you are diligent and are successful in locating the
>recipe please post it for everyone to see as the fake rocks I've tried
>to make look very fake.
>
>Don
>
>
>
>
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front door key in. I did a google search for "hide a key in a rock" and a
few options came up.
Jessoca
>From: "gwendontoo"
>Reply-To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [LbNA] Re: AZ89A boulders
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:43:48 -0000
>
>--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "pilgrimsinthisland"
>
> >
> > well, I just saw this cool photo in files of this boxers letterbox
> > holder in a rock. is this rock real?
> > where can one get these?
> > So cool.
> >
>AZ89a is Ron Golden, a west coast Letterboxer. He hasn't been very
>active for the last year or so. The "Fake" rock pictured was hand
>made. Ron is a very talented guy. We had another west coast
>letterboxer that made "Fake" rocks for many of his plants(Sir
>Balthizar)(spelling?)and he too has dropped out of letterboxing. Now
>somewhere Sir B posted a file, possibly at LbNCA, on how to make such
>rocks. So if you are diligent and are successful in locating the
>recipe please post it for everyone to see as the fake rocks I've tried
>to make look very fake.
>
>Don
>
>
>
>
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Re: AZ89A boulders
From: (rbngdfello@aol.com) |
Date: 2006-08-31 09:58:36 UTC-04:00
I don't have Sir Balthazar's "recipe" here, but I saved a link to the
modeling compound he used. Joann Fabrics sells it, but I imagine that you can find
it at hobby stores, too:
_http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=8
74056&afsrc=1_
(http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=874056&afsrc=1)
It's called Amaco Sculptamold Modeling Compound. As I recall, Sir B. molded
it around small Sterilite containers he bought at the dollar store. It seems
to me that he painted his rocks after they were dry.
Hope this helps!
~Doughnut, et al.
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modeling compound he used. Joann Fabrics sells it, but I imagine that you can find
it at hobby stores, too:
_http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=8
74056&afsrc=1_
(http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=874056&afsrc=1)
It's called Amaco Sculptamold Modeling Compound. As I recall, Sir B. molded
it around small Sterilite containers he bought at the dollar store. It seems
to me that he painted his rocks after they were dry.
Hope this helps!
~Doughnut, et al.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LbNA] Re: AZ89A boulders
From: Team Randalstik (esjunk@comcast.net) |
Date: 2006-08-31 15:31:37 UTC-04:00
I've made a couple myself but they don't look as realistic as those.
But I suppose with some shaping it can be done.
I used a tupperware box and covered the thing with QuickCrete that i
bought at HomeDepot for $5.00. The trick is the box can't be too big
or the concrete is just to heavy and breaks under its own weight. So
use a small box. Than you have to sit with the mush of concrete and
push the concrete around as it sets to shape it, otherwise it looks
like a piece of gray poo.
I was using a popsicle stick to create crevices and little
irregularities.
Than I bought a can of that faux stone spray paint ($11) and sprayed
the whole concrete. For the final touch, I rubbed dirt and mud on it
from the planting site to disguise it.
I had this fake rock planted at a playground for about 8 months.
Undisturbed. But somehow, one day, a kid found it and destroyed it
maliciously. Luckily a neighbor in that area who had found it
letterboxing found the culprits and beat them up . . . oh no . . . no
she didn't do that . . . she rescued the box from them and contacted
me. . . then I beat them up . . .
- Letterboxing Mafia :)
On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:43 PM, gwendontoo wrote:
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "pilgrimsinthisland"
> wrote:
> >
> > well, I just saw this cool photo in files of this boxers letterbox
> > holder in a rock. is this rock real?
> > where can one get these?
> > So cool.
> >
> AZ89a is Ron Golden, a west coast Letterboxer. He hasn't been very
> active for the last year or so. The "Fake" rock pictured was hand
> made. Ron is a very talented guy. We had another west coast
> letterboxer that made "Fake" rocks for many of his plants(Sir
> Balthizar)(spelling?)and he too has dropped out of letterboxing. Now
> somewhere Sir B posted a file, possibly at LbNCA, on how to make such
> rocks. So if you are diligent and are successful in locating the
> recipe please post it for everyone to see as the fake rocks I've tried
> to make look very fake.
>
> Don
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
But I suppose with some shaping it can be done.
I used a tupperware box and covered the thing with QuickCrete that i
bought at HomeDepot for $5.00. The trick is the box can't be too big
or the concrete is just to heavy and breaks under its own weight. So
use a small box. Than you have to sit with the mush of concrete and
push the concrete around as it sets to shape it, otherwise it looks
like a piece of gray poo.
I was using a popsicle stick to create crevices and little
irregularities.
Than I bought a can of that faux stone spray paint ($11) and sprayed
the whole concrete. For the final touch, I rubbed dirt and mud on it
from the planting site to disguise it.
I had this fake rock planted at a playground for about 8 months.
Undisturbed. But somehow, one day, a kid found it and destroyed it
maliciously. Luckily a neighbor in that area who had found it
letterboxing found the culprits and beat them up . . . oh no . . . no
she didn't do that . . . she rescued the box from them and contacted
me. . . then I beat them up . . .
- Letterboxing Mafia :)
On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:43 PM, gwendontoo wrote:
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "pilgrimsinthisland"
>
> >
> > well, I just saw this cool photo in files of this boxers letterbox
> > holder in a rock. is this rock real?
> > where can one get these?
> > So cool.
> >
> AZ89a is Ron Golden, a west coast Letterboxer. He hasn't been very
> active for the last year or so. The "Fake" rock pictured was hand
> made. Ron is a very talented guy. We had another west coast
> letterboxer that made "Fake" rocks for many of his plants(Sir
> Balthizar)(spelling?)and he too has dropped out of letterboxing. Now
> somewhere Sir B posted a file, possibly at LbNCA, on how to make such
> rocks. So if you are diligent and are successful in locating the
> recipe please post it for everyone to see as the fake rocks I've tried
> to make look very fake.
>
> Don
>
>
>
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Re: AZ89A boulders
From: (CapeCodCat@aol.com) |
Date: 2006-09-01 10:05:57 UTC-04:00
grey poo.. now that would be a fun clue.... go find the thing that looks
like grey poo.
>^..^<
Marie
"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out
hard rock. Persevere."– Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole
truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
– Boris Pasternak
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like grey poo.
>^..^<
Marie
"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out
hard rock. Persevere."– Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole
truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
– Boris Pasternak
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Re: AZ89A boulders
From: pilgrimsinthisland (byhisgrace@shaw.ca) |
Date: 2006-09-02 00:11:58 UTC
thank you for this information.
I think perhaps getting some styrofoam and painting them with
some sort of paint may work (though many would simply dissolve the
styrofoam)It did remind me of 'Hollywood' type rocks.
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, rbngdfello@... wrote:
>
> I don't have Sir Balthazar's "recipe" here, but I saved a link to the
> modeling compound he used. Joann Fabrics sells it, but I imagine
that you can find
> it at hobby stores, too:
>
>
_http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=8
> 74056&afsrc=1_
>
(http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=874056&afsrc=1)
>
> It's called Amaco Sculptamold Modeling Compound. As I recall, Sir B.
molded
> it around small Sterilite containers he bought at the dollar store.
It seems
> to me that he painted his rocks after they were dry.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> ~Doughnut, et al.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
I think perhaps getting some styrofoam and painting them with
some sort of paint may work (though many would simply dissolve the
styrofoam)It did remind me of 'Hollywood' type rocks.
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, rbngdfello@... wrote:
>
> I don't have Sir Balthazar's "recipe" here, but I saved a link to the
> modeling compound he used. Joann Fabrics sells it, but I imagine
that you can find
> it at hobby stores, too:
>
>
_http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=8
> 74056&afsrc=1_
>
(http://www.joann.com/catalog.jhtml?CATID=2055&PRODID=11161&AID=10273743&PID=874056&afsrc=1)
>
> It's called Amaco Sculptamold Modeling Compound. As I recall, Sir B.
molded
> it around small Sterilite containers he bought at the dollar store.
It seems
> to me that he painted his rocks after they were dry.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> ~Doughnut, et al.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>