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jfquackenbush Special user Out here on the desert 607 Posts |
So I've been building lotas trying to solve the diminishment problem you get with the classic design. I've had some minor successes but somebody told me that he thought UF Grant had solved this problem with a cocktail shaker in the fifties and while I'm a happy experimenter, I hate the idea of reinventing the wheel if I don't have to. Anybody know what this informant of mine was talking about? I've done a few searches of the forums and come up empty. any resource or advice on this front would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
I'm drawing on fuzzy recall at the moment, but Bill Spooner's Journal of Magic Research may have tackled this issue at some point.
http://spoonermagic.com/products/journal......rch.aspx It might be worth a phone call.
~michael baker
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jfquackenbush Special user Out here on the desert 607 Posts |
Thanks Michael, I'll look into it!
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jay leslie V.I.P. Southern California 9498 Posts |
The easiest way is to time the filling function and hold your finger over the hole quickly the first pour then add 2 seconds on each additional pour.
Your timing will vary depending on your bowl. Side note: I examined a lota made by Ho Yam ( William Mayoh) where the bottom unscrews and you pass a wand all the way through the bowl, screw the bottom back on THEN continue to pour again. It's amazing - it's in his book. I restored several items from the book and they were ALL amazing. (I have 3 boxes of parts and routines he made ) It's one thing to see them in the book but another to have them in your hands and take them apart.
Jay Leslie
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
Gen Grant "invented" a lota bowl, that could be examined (!) I had one. I think it was when Gen was at Abbott's, in the late '30s or early '40s,j as the bowl was "vase shaped, like the standard lota that Percy sold. I had one!
I think that I have owned about a dozen lotas, from P&L's "big one", to both P&L and Abbott's "6 shot". Heqq, I even owned one made of clay. I never knew HO-YAM, but, I imagine that the one you describe, Jay, would make Jim Swoger smile!
SNEAKY, UNDERHANDED, DEVIOUS,& SURREPTITIOUS ITINERANT MOUNTEBANK
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jfquackenbush Special user Out here on the desert 607 Posts |
Great ideas. My research also turned up a Grant lota built into a cocktail "cup" (a cocktail shaker maybe? or a copper cup like for a mule?) that he apparently marketed on his own. He mentions it in a routine he published in the fifties, but I haven't been able to track down the actual apparatus.
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