Thanks for all the good advice, fellas! I'm buying over the net rather than locally, because after paying shipping and customs, it's still at least 25%-30% under what the local vendors want to charge. For anyone who's interested, I found a very nice Iwate detail gun (old style) at Dick Blick.

Now, the bad news is that because I bit***d so much about RCU mistreating my nickname, they reset it, so I lost all of my post history The good news is that I have a readable handle again (grrrrrrrrr)

Juan M. Villaveces