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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CNJ831 [quote]QUOTE: I strongly suspect...that referencing back issues will be less far reaching as time goes on, due to the "shelf-life" of info described above. When was the last time somebody referenced a 1961 article in MR, other than to say something like "The Gorre and Daphetid was first featured in the June '52 MR. . ."? [/quote] Actually, I see it fairly often in the magazine. The July 2006 MR just referred readers to an article appearing in the December 1974 issue, without which the current piece (Perkins) becomes a pointless item of look-what-I-did...but not a how-to-do-it article. There are plenty of times when the author, or perhaps the editors, refer the reader back to some past article, where the subject at hand was typically covered in far more detail than it is in the current issue. [/quote] I had lent out my July issue yesterday but after reading the article in question this morning I have to disagree completely. The 2006 article really has nothing to do with the plan from 1974, other than it was the inspiration for the current author. The new article is about using polymer clay and foam core to make buildings - hardly a "pointless look-at-what-I-did" - and the particular building under construction is irrelevant. To top it all off, MR put the original article on-line! They do reference a 1969 article on cutting cedar shingles from cigar wrappers, but the technique does not appear so arcane that the illustrations they give wouldn't be adequate. All-in-all, it would not kill me to realize that I had tossed these two issues if I was trying this technique. KL
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