11 o'clock news

The top picture is a deckle, under construction, for paper making.

Second picture is a 20"X 20" paper mold.

Third pictures is a very imperfect paper produced using the above two items and the bucket Mariko was mixing.

Well.. Irene (Ivo) was very close to right.

Sometime back, see, I posted a pic showing paper made in Thailand out of elephant dung.

So!l,, I figured if the Thais can sell elephant dung paper to discriminating visitors, such as myself, maybe I could make a good paper out of moose turds too sell to eco-friendly visitors to Alaska (such as yourselves when you stop by.).

Our moose's winter diet consists almost entirely of willow and cottenwood bark and twigs, -ideal for papermaking if cleaned and ground and pounded and ground, -so I thought let the moose grind it and then..!

Hence this project.

But alas the fibers were far too coarse to make a suitable paper.

Thus the old saying I am sure you are all familiar with:

Mills made of moose grind slowly and dang it, they don't really grind very well at all!


So that's the eleven o'clock news, over to you, Chet!