First off: while I adore Fabio (my Durston 158mm rolling mill), I will emntion that we only a couple of days ago received the replacement lock for the one we had to drill out of their cabinet after **2** of them had non-functional locks ( Read more... )

Fabio is truly fabulous. I had various rollings-out to do today, and it was so EASY (11:1 gear reduction ratio FTW!)! And so precise (really good calibration!)! and it didn't give me any of the slight wonkiness my old mill did! :D ( Read more... )

My Dublin Rose plique-a-jour earrings have been featrued on the Etsy Stalker blog! See the entry here: http://etsystalker.com/?p=5529 I'm flattered to be in such great company!

And now I must hie myself back to the studio because I ahve a TON of work to do today..!

Fabio is definitely fabulous. I am SO thrilled with him (it ( Read more... )

I stand corrected ( Read more... )

J went to heroic lengths yesterday and now Fabio* is UP! and in working condition ( Read more... )

Still no useful Fabio. Alas. He continues to slack in his shipping crate ( Read more... )

The poor hunk (my very-fancy and pricey rolling mill) still languishes in his shipping box ( Read more... )

We haven't yet tried the graphite lube in the lock on Fabio's cabinet; maybe tonight. I thought we has somne graphite lock-lube around somewhere, but maybe not, so we'll need to acquire it ( Read more... )

On the plus side: this time the cabinet arrived with keys! And the number on the keys is the same as the number on the lock ( Read more... )