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I scraped more crud. It sounds mindless - a Torah is a good thirty metres long, at least, but it's so cool when you've been scraping crud for hours, and sanding, and working out what to do about this orange splotch, and peeling glue smudges away, and wondering whether this is really lipstick, and levering crusty stuff off, and using a little tiny knife to scrape greasy fingermarks off the text without scraping off the letters, and rubbing the whole thing with erasy spongy things - and you look back at all these lovely clean pages of Torah, and you compare it to the ones remaining - and it's cool. It's a bit like writing - it's sort of mindless, and then you wake up and look at what you've done, and it's oooooooh time. 'S nice. Torahs get very dirty.

Here's the funky vav I mentioned the other day: