Re: temperature

Bud Wertheim (bwertheim@zelacom.com)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:57:17 -0400

Oh ye of little faith! If you were at the ISFHC national at the U of
Vermont, perhaps you saw the signage on the vendors tables. I did them. I
used to be a sign painter and still do calligraphy. Many moons ago, while
standing on a scaffold, painting a hat box with ribbon on a sign for a
millinary shop (almost all gone now) in January, I scooped cold thickened
paint on a stiff brush. At that time I had purchased GI issue woolen gloves
and cut off the tips of the fingers. My hands responded to the shelter of
the gloves and remained viable until the hat box was done.

At present I use them (albeit newer ones) alone and, for extreme cold, in
combination with silk liners for mountain climbing gloves. The silk liners
are extremely thin and I can pluck strings easily with them (my little harp
has fairly low tension, while the woolen gloves with the finger tips gone
give the rest of the hand protection. While I rarely play in such extreme
conditions. I have done so and while not recommended (I prefer more
sheltered areas) can be done without too much discomfort. The woolen gloves
(sans tips) can be purchased today at sporting goods shops all over the
States as Bow hunters use them and gun hunters as well.

At 10:45 AM 10/20/96 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Bud Wertheim wrote:
>
>> I don't know about the Zephyr, but I've camped out with my 27 string
>> Folkcraft and played by campfires, on top of windy crags, in below freezing
>> temperatures as well as in tents, camping vans, motels, lean-tos - you name
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>How do you manage to keep your fingers from getting stiff from the cold?
>Dick S.
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