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Issue No. 303 | 21 April 2006 |
Brand Spanking
Interview: Head On Unions: Do You Have a Moment? Industrial: Vital Signs Economics: Taxing Times Environment: It Ain�t Necessarily So History: Melbourne�s Hours Immigration: Opening the Floodgates Review: Pollie Fiction Poetry: The Cabal
Control Freak Turns Hand to AWAs �Clean Start� Sweeps Into Action Fleas Leave Andrews Scratching The $130 Question: What is He On? Apprentices Assume Missionary Position Rights At Work Worth Playing For
Politics Politics The Soapbox Postcard The Locker Room Obituary
Lying Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them II What Tax Cuts? Belly Says It�s Time A Word Of Warning Stop Mexican Revolution Well That Clears That Up Then
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Letters to the Editor Well That Clears That Up Then
Att: Paul Howes - Are there any tuckpointers out there A tuck pointer is a tradesman that prepares once ungauged brickwork to produce tuckpointing, the lost art of false jointing. Bricks were kilned and gauged per batch size that varied some in wood fired kilns and clay type. The tuck pointer was responsible for pointing the lime mortar joints with as similar matching mortar with an array of oxides and soils. ( An art in itself ) From the usually Indian red mortar a paint wash mixed if necassary and trade secret additives were mixed in the wash solution to provide bonding and applied to provide consistency across the entire wall. While the red pointing was relatively fresh a usually white to cream stopping was mixed with added trade secret binding agents and whiteners. The stopping was applied with a special iron the width of the required joint from a feathered wooden straight edge placed to the wall leaving a raised joint some half a mm high. The frills remaining were cut via the straightedge with a special tuck pointing tool known as a frenchman cutting some of the red mortar with the frenchman to provide the crisp clean joint that is left. Today techniques have changed and chemical binding is used rather than the traditional wet to wet methods of years gone by. A skill that would test the most experience of wet trade. That same method was used on many types of stone. That is the trade of tuckpointer. Neil
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