Maks' handiwork is pretty damn nice. Too many years ago, I made my living putting joinery into custom yachts. So I know wood butchery. Here is the best I can say about Maks' work is take a look at this:
When these two cleats that clamp the mold shut reach the ends of their threads, both cleats wind up dead perpendicular across the mold. Now, that's what I'd call careful attention to detail!
I waxed the threads with Skidmore's, both male and female. Skidmore's is intended to waterproof leather; but I figured a little beeswax would lube the wooden threads, and thus protect them:
I set these on the hearth one evening, and that made the wax sink in nice.
Fit and finish are pretty damn choice
You could make a super long eight inch Churchill in this mold if you liked. I've made a couple 7+
I figured this ought to be just right in the evening after work, is why I got it. I can pull out one binder leaf, one wrapper leaf, and a fist of filler. Wrap and bind one leftwards, the other rightwards, from the right and left wrapper halves. Don't have time on a week night to kick out a batch of ten; but two ought to fit the schedule.
Very nice mold. Fifty bucks includes shipping from Slovenia. Takes about two weeks to arrive... three days travel plus a week and a half sitting first in the Ljubljana post office then the New York post office.
Here's the best part: our resident garmaster Deluxe once sensibly advised that your hands will learn more by a small daily rolling jog than from a periodic rolling marathon. And this is a very true precept. The concert does not make the musician -- daily practice does. A two gar mold like this has proven instrumental in putting this precept into practice. Four or five times a week I find fifteen minutes to bunch a pair... one left handed from the one side of the leaf; the other right handed from the other. When I used to break out my ten slot mold I invariably felt bound to fill the thing up. Filling it up took an amount of time I could only make room for on weekends. Not this. I pull out one binder leaf, one wrapper leaf, a half dozen filler leaves, and they're in the mold before Bearswatter has dinner done. Put the plate in the sink, come back up and wrap them. Extremely convenient. Totally effective.
Get one.
When these two cleats that clamp the mold shut reach the ends of their threads, both cleats wind up dead perpendicular across the mold. Now, that's what I'd call careful attention to detail!
I waxed the threads with Skidmore's, both male and female. Skidmore's is intended to waterproof leather; but I figured a little beeswax would lube the wooden threads, and thus protect them:
I set these on the hearth one evening, and that made the wax sink in nice.
Fit and finish are pretty damn choice
You could make a super long eight inch Churchill in this mold if you liked. I've made a couple 7+
I figured this ought to be just right in the evening after work, is why I got it. I can pull out one binder leaf, one wrapper leaf, and a fist of filler. Wrap and bind one leftwards, the other rightwards, from the right and left wrapper halves. Don't have time on a week night to kick out a batch of ten; but two ought to fit the schedule.
Very nice mold. Fifty bucks includes shipping from Slovenia. Takes about two weeks to arrive... three days travel plus a week and a half sitting first in the Ljubljana post office then the New York post office.
Here's the best part: our resident garmaster Deluxe once sensibly advised that your hands will learn more by a small daily rolling jog than from a periodic rolling marathon. And this is a very true precept. The concert does not make the musician -- daily practice does. A two gar mold like this has proven instrumental in putting this precept into practice. Four or five times a week I find fifteen minutes to bunch a pair... one left handed from the one side of the leaf; the other right handed from the other. When I used to break out my ten slot mold I invariably felt bound to fill the thing up. Filling it up took an amount of time I could only make room for on weekends. Not this. I pull out one binder leaf, one wrapper leaf, a half dozen filler leaves, and they're in the mold before Bearswatter has dinner done. Put the plate in the sink, come back up and wrap them. Extremely convenient. Totally effective.
Get one.