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Post by MsAli on Mar 18, 2018 14:59:45 GMT -5
Alot of yummy goodness!!
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Post by amygdule on Mar 18, 2018 15:48:33 GMT -5
Cool glass work James. Love all the shiny colors. Here's a couple of Glass Art videos from Josh Simpson Glass
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 18, 2018 18:12:19 GMT -5
When you walk in this glass blower's shop he has a bulletin board with about 50 different frit packs in clear baggies so you can pick your color. Apparently has a whole bunch more in proprietary storage. I was just prepping some for melt. when the frontal chunk is ground flat and the piece is wet that color is hard to describe with a camera. Not to mention the flowing effect. It's a trip and am anxious to get some of them polished. I am going to contract a rough globe of that frit pattern blown to make pendants from. Can't control myself. Glass is a disease. Once you get bit, you can never get it out of your system. I used to do stained glass. Then I got bit by the opal bug. Since reading all of your glass adventures, I'm getting the urge to do another glass project. My niece wants a panda window for her bedroom. Maybe it's time to get sidetracked for a little and go glass shopping.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 18, 2018 18:38:10 GMT -5
James I am wondering if you have found any glass that will not take a FINE polish. My wife really likes glass so I have bought a lot of glass chunks and have found a few that just will not get a brilliant shine. On some pieces I can see micro pores, not really bubble holes but just ultra fine texture. I should say that overall the pieces have a great shine but if looked at close the micro pores do show...................MrP Maybe it is softer leaded glass.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 18, 2018 18:43:29 GMT -5
I am by no means a chemist, but have some thoughts. Have you considered placing small rock chips between 2 layers of glass and just see what happens? I know quite a few people who would love something like this. I have been crushing some crystal rocks like Citrine, Amethyst, Peridot and Rose Quartz. Then placing them in little glass bottles. Also did Turquoise and Specular Hematite. They are being used as pendulums, necklaces and sun catchers. Now am doing custom orders this way with specific stones. Some stones might not survive the heat, but others should. I try to select chips with great color and shapes most of the time. The leftover powder is used for Medicine Wheels. Just a thought of something new to try. I have heat treated agate and coral and it usually shatters. Garnets are supposed to be one of the best at taking heat. Hematite and turquoise sound like great candidates fernwood . Powdered forms, are they easier to melt in ? Have you tried heat treating them in sand? Burying them in some dry sand first distributes the heat more evenly. Same reason this is done in some chemistry experiments where the flasks are partially buried in sand in an electrical heater.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 18, 2018 19:52:15 GMT -5
I have heat treated agate and coral and it usually shatters. Garnets are supposed to be one of the best at taking heat. Hematite and turquoise sound like great candidates fernwood . Powdered forms, are they easier to melt in ? Have you tried heat treating them in sand? Burying them in some dry sand first distributes the heat more evenly. Same reason this is done in some chemistry experiments where the flasks are partially buried in sand in an electrical heater. Always heat treat in sand James. Not only even but reduces thermal shock greatly. Open the door above 400 and usually you hear cracking or see shrapnel if not buried in sand. Amazingly sensitive to slight quick temp changes.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 18, 2018 19:54:34 GMT -5
When you walk in this glass blower's shop he has a bulletin board with about 50 different frit packs in clear baggies so you can pick your color. Apparently has a whole bunch more in proprietary storage. I was just prepping some for melt. when the frontal chunk is ground flat and the piece is wet that color is hard to describe with a camera. Not to mention the flowing effect. It's a trip and am anxious to get some of them polished. I am going to contract a rough globe of that frit pattern blown to make pendants from. Can't control myself. Glass is a disease. Once you get bit, you can never get it out of your system. I used to do stained glass. Then I got bit by the opal bug. Since reading all of your glass adventures, I'm getting the urge to do another glass project. My niece wants a panda window for her bedroom. Maybe it's time to get sidetracked for a little and go glass shopping. Go for it ! It grabbed me like a bear. When glass is right it is totally right. So many ways to go. The glass shop is waiting for you.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 18, 2018 20:12:59 GMT -5
Thanks Alison. I just learned to not open the big kiln sitting on the floor as the heat rises directly to your face, a breath of very warm air lol.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 18, 2018 20:19:18 GMT -5
Bad to the bone team there amygdule. Lots of shared instinct. Thanks
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 18, 2018 20:24:13 GMT -5
Hot glass burns real well, too. I was making a sculpture with some lacy trim when it came off the punt and rolled down my arm. I still have a very faint scar where the top of the lace burned me all the way down as it rolled. But, that's only one of my hot glass scars. I have some glass embedded in my fingertip, too. I figured by now it would have worked it's way out, but it hasn't. Thank God one of those big dolphins never came of the punt. I would have been severely injured.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 18, 2018 20:39:16 GMT -5
Thanks Alison. I just learned to not open the big kiln sitting on the floor as the heat rises directly to your face, a breath of very warm air lol.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 19, 2018 4:18:22 GMT -5
Hot glass burns real well, too. I was making a sculpture with some lacy trim when it came off the punt and rolled down my arm. I still have a very faint scar where the top of the lace burned me all the way down as it rolled. But, that's only one of my hot glass scars. I have some glass embedded in my fingertip, too. I figured by now it would have worked it's way out, but it hasn't. Thank God one of those big dolphins never came of the punt. I would have been severely injured. That make goose bumps Tela. Sticking to kiln work. You guys dealing with red hot glass, well, sorta got a screw missin. Sculptures and glass blowers both. Too many opportunities to make an unforgiving boo boo. You know I weld and cut a lot of metal but molten glass is just plain intimidating to me anyway.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 19, 2018 4:31:12 GMT -5
A real artist using blown glass scrap from Matt Janke Studio. On the Atlanta belt line bicycle/hiking trail. Oddly I just crushed a bunch of the opaque white glass in video still photo into frit yesterday and the black scuff marks had to be ground off before fritting.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 19, 2018 4:41:07 GMT -5
Thanks Alison. I just learned to not open the big kiln sitting on the floor as the heat rises directly to your face, a breath of very warm air lol. Hired a geek to come out this week and create a gemglass email(like gemglass@hotmail.com). Once this new email address is completed I can open an Etsy shop.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 19, 2018 7:42:42 GMT -5
Hired a geek to come out this week and create a gemglass email(like gemglass@hotmail.com). Once this new email address is completed I can open an Etsy shop. Yeah!! Almost up and running!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 19, 2018 8:18:10 GMT -5
Fired a openly spaced shelf in the large new used kiln yesterday for the first time. Looks fine. Green vase that fell off the glass blower's counter and broke noticing a $980 price tag. Cooked 1/3 of it here. Ready for final grind, then re-cook to make decent girdles. Then tumble. Own title to the talented artist in the family. Wife's first attempt and a certain home run. Liking her compositions a lot. In the dungeon w/the wife, gets no worse.
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Post by NRG on Mar 19, 2018 9:32:15 GMT -5
Gold and silver leaf aren't expensive
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Post by notjustone on Mar 19, 2018 10:55:51 GMT -5
years ago I tried my hand in the glass world. corning museum has a walk in workshop. made some glass flowers to incorporate in sculptures with steel cattails and leaves and such. a couple Christmas ornaments ect pretty basic stuff. their website has some of the demonstrations to stream. www.cmog.org/programs/live-streaming
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Post by jamesp on Mar 19, 2018 15:48:36 GMT -5
Gold and silver leaf aren't expensive found some gold leak in scrap and recooked it. gold seems resilient, must have high melt point ?
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Post by jamesp on Mar 19, 2018 15:51:25 GMT -5
years ago I tried my hand in the glass world. corning museum has a walk in workshop. made some glass flowers to incorporate in sculptures with steel cattails and leaves and such. a couple Christmas ornaments ect pretty basic stuff. their website has some of the demonstrations to stream. www.cmog.org/programs/live-streamingFine library of videos there John. Will be checking them out. Thanks
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