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    Posted: 27 May 2006 at 08:28
If anyone knows of a manual on how to make tintypes, could you please let me know. I am very interested in learning this process, and could use a contemporary manual on chemistry, technique and sources. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -will
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Posts: 1020 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 May 2006 at 08:39
Will...
I would highly recommend John Coffer's "The Doers Guide" Manual and DVD set...
Check out his website here:
http://www.johncoffer.com/Main_Page.htm#_Work_Information
You have to send him the $ by old-fashioned mail...
It is definitely the "low-tech" approach to publishing...hand written out, b&w xeroxed and smelling of wood smoke and kerosene, but his manual has been indispensible for me over the past year.

Quinn also has a manual/DVD that he is in the process of publishing, and I'm sure that this will be equally as informative and indispensible for the modern wet-plater...I'm sure that he will jump in here with info on ordering/availability...

-Greg
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity"

"Great artists doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
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Posts: 418 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 May 2006 at 23:10
Hello Will,
Ditto with what Greg has to say. I would strongly encourage you to take a
class whether it be Quinn's, Coffers, Dunniway's, Scazbo, Osterman's, etc...
The point is you can learn so much, so more quickly and also begin to
network with fellow collodion freaks who dearly love this process. Not to
mention the rich resource Quinn's forum has become. There's much to learn,
and it's a ton of fun.

best,
s.
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Posts: 2 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 May 2006 at 16:49

thanks Greg and s.,

I have been drawn to and fascinated with this process since college and have always found an excuse not to do the work to learn it. i taught myself platinum printing for my senior thesis and thought I could probably teach myself this process. but i realize i could definitely use the help of a network of artists working this process. i am having the manual written by the Osterman's mailed to me and will start the learning process.. will more than likely be posting more than a few messages on this site. thanks in advance for any and all advice! will
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