Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:11 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Celastic, Shmelastic!


I for one am happy to trade in my celastic (though I keep a small staff 
of gold old medium weight green for special occasions.) But I think 
I've breathed in enough acetone fumes for one lifetime. Good riddance!

My favorite celastic substitute is coffee filters. Yes, folks. 
Scientifically designed to let liquid soak through without getting 
soggy, It cuts like paper and bonds between layers with nary a blister 
nor a seam.  Depending on what kind of glue or binding agent you use 
with it, 4 or layers is equivalent in strength to 2 layers of celastic. 
1 box of 40 #6 filters will do several human sized heads.

I'm sure it was some one on pupt crit who first turned me onto this. 
Does that person know if flat coffee filters come in even larger sizes? 
Or if there is somewhere in the USA to buy the coffee filter material 
before it gets transformed into pouch form?

Stephen
On May 24, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Gregory Ballora wrote:

>
> Hey y'all
> I keep hearing that they don't make celastic anymore,
> and I think that is not quite true. I called up
> Saderma Leather today; they are a wholesale cobblery
> here in LA. They said they do still carry it, but it
> isn't as good as it used to be. Well I have heard that
> story for years, but I have also used the Bad Celastic
> for masks, bases to heads, etc. I found it very
> usefull, so long as you understand its limits, and
> deal with it safely. I understand that there are other
> orthopedic uses for the stuff also, so I think it is
> still out there. Folks are just still pining for the
> old celastic, kind of like pining for the old formula
> plastic wood.
>
> Adapt and Survive I say
>
> Greg
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