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Stippled

A texture imparted to plaster with the bristles of a stiff brush, applied by driving the bristles directly at the surface, rather than by using painting strokes.
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Should your stippled surface be too sharp, the easiest way to correct it is a very gentle peening with the same hammer used on the stippling punch.
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CA tends to be larger than the SP and VV, with a broad base and a heavily stippled or cauliflower-like surface.
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These include 'Candystripe', with white blooms stippled or edged with rose; 'Dazzler', red; 'Purity', white; 'Radiance', rose with red center.
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I own several Glocks with stippled frames, but I didn't do the stippling myself because if you screw up that frame, you are out of luck--the frame on a Glock (and most pistols) is legally the gun, because it is the serialized part.
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Over the years I have seen Glocks and M&Ps stippled by hand by local shooters, and the results didn't just look good but felt good.
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250-3000 masterwork is mounted with exceptional marblecake French walnut with perch-belly stock and Schnabel-tip forearm that is elaborately relief-carved with vines, leaves and grape clusters with a fine, stippled background.
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Bowed legs formed the double arch of the famous M, the stippled back of a nonspecific four-legged animal imitated a carton of French fries, a squat, rotund deity could be seen, on close examination, to be a hamburger on legs, and so on.
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The photo is of the entire NGP staff in January 1988, and it is in the twin-volume 'Product and Process' set, complete with stippled polycarbonate slipcase, designed by Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems to go with an RIBA exhibition of the same title.
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