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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 5:37:12 GMT -5
These may be more marketable portions. Sell in 4 to 6 batches for one price. Making headway on Lot-O polish using only 1/2 pound media for 3 pounds of glass by tampering with Lot-O. Unfortunately I am making a product for sale and shouldn't share my tricks. Sorry. May be able to polish glass with no media. Maybe next load. Old 6M camera still got it's groove fernwood. Really need to tripod it and get Lasic or fix autofocus. From brick melt Christmas Tigers hummingbirdstones MsAliNorman Greebaum 'Spirit in the Sky' unclesoskaFrom brick melt Pea gravel media polished with glass 'Cyclops' Thanks for looking in.
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Post by rockjunquie on Apr 25, 2018 7:19:57 GMT -5
Nice sets. I'm partial to the confetti glass. Grouping them like that could be a fun way to sell. eta- Bonus points for the Spirit in the Sky reference.
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Post by fernwood on Apr 25, 2018 7:56:01 GMT -5
Really like the green and the cyclops. And the milfor.
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Post by MrP on Apr 25, 2018 8:04:22 GMT -5
Those sure came out nice.
Something to think about, I have tumbled thousands of cabs for pendants. I have a couple of cases that hold a few hundred each that people will sort through, to pick out what they want, for me to drill and put a bail on. Some ladies would take them home and dump them out to sort through them. I found that some of the softer cabs have dulled over the years. Looking over them it is from micro scratches, that I believe is from dust and dirt. Granted it has taken a long time and many many people sorting through them. Not sure how you are going to store yours but I just want to make you aware of this. My hope for you is that they go from the tumbler to somebody else's hand. Really enjoy watching this......................................MrP
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 8:40:42 GMT -5
Nice sets. I'm partial to the confetti glass. Grouping them like that could be a fun way to sell. eta- Bonus points for the Spirit in the Sky reference. The group does spread the variety better Tela. Both shape and color/pattern. And does not show micro defects much. That confetti was commissioned. Glass blower assembled it with color in center and restricted the stretch by adding grit as late as possible in blowing to reduce stretch. He gave me quantity pricing should I want many. He is a master and has a bunch of pre-mixed frit packs or lets me change it on the fly. He would be a major player in my supply if this takes off. However to do some patterns like stringers the cost can go up X5 and X6. I can make and bring my own frit and save a lot of money. Lot of learning going on. I feel like I am obtaining an intense college degree. However at today's college costs this self engagement method is a bargain. Guess it was not as cheap as being paid to work with glass like you were. Two of the blowers I deal with got their degrees at Kent State and that had to be costly. I have looked at some fusing courses and am dumbfounded at how useless and basic those courses would be to me at this stage of my education. I don't know where or how you got your training to work with boro but you work is off the chart.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 8:46:24 GMT -5
Really like the green and the cyclops. And the milfor. My wife does the milfor. Last night's slump was a huge victory for millefiori. I slumped some vases and chunked a dozen China made millefiori in with this low temp cook. The China made millefiori fused perfectly at such a low temp which is freaky, it had been cracking. Now I got it's temp recipe and YIPEE. The reason this millefiori was a big victory was because it is cool stuff and I can get it for less than $2/pound which is WAY cheap.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 8:55:16 GMT -5
Those sure came out nice. Something to think about, I have tumbled thousands of cabs for pendants. I have a couple of cases that hold a few hundred each that people will sort through, to pick out what they want, for me to drill and put a bail on. Some ladies would take them home and dump them out to sort through them. I found that some of the softer cabs have dulled over the years. Looking over them it is from micro scratches, that I believe is from dust and dirt. Granted it has taken a long time and many many people sorting through them. Not sure how you are going to store yours but I just want to make you aware of this. My hope for you is that they go from the tumbler to somebody else's hand. Really enjoy watching this......................................MrP I hope to not have to deal with people Michael. Especially a bunch of ladies picking thru stock making long decisions lol. I will sell cheap to avoid such. And really really target jewelers that sell retail. Having a half dozen ladies crowding me with questions, picking this one and that one and not this one and not that one is a nightmare come true. Must be turning into an old cynical grump in old age. Telling me that they can unpolished cabs is all you have to say. Ha, I could hoodwinkle my wife into running the sales stand.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 25, 2018 8:58:15 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of the confetti glass, too. That last brick melt picture is yummy, too. Looking good, jamesp!
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Post by unclesoska on Apr 25, 2018 9:22:37 GMT -5
jamesp- A Catholic Nun once asked me to give my interpretation of the lyrics for "Spirit in the Sky". It did not go well. I told her it was pretty self-explanatory,the scowl on her face told me that was the wrong answer. I was kept in from recess that day to reponder my response.
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Post by MsAli on Apr 25, 2018 9:26:44 GMT -5
Another fan of the confetti And the pastels too
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Post by MrP on Apr 25, 2018 9:33:39 GMT -5
Those sure came out nice. Something to think about, I have tumbled thousands of cabs for pendants. I have a couple of cases that hold a few hundred each that people will sort through, to pick out what they want, for me to drill and put a bail on. Some ladies would take them home and dump them out to sort through them. I found that some of the softer cabs have dulled over the years. Looking over them it is from micro scratches, that I believe is from dust and dirt. Granted it has taken a long time and many many people sorting through them. Not sure how you are going to store yours but I just want to make you aware of this. My hope for you is that they go from the tumbler to somebody else's hand. Really enjoy watching this......................................MrP I hope to not have to deal with people Michael. Especially a bunch of ladies picking thru stock making long decisions lol. I will sell cheap to avoid such. And really really target jewelers that sell retail. Having a half dozen ladies crowding me with questions, picking this one and that one and not this one and not that one is a nightmare come true. Must be turning into an old cynical grump in old age. Telling me that they can unpolished cabs is all you have to say. Ha, I could hoodwinkle my wife into running the sales stand. I knew the people who were buying so I just gave them the case and let them go for it. The cabs were shapes I cut or the odds and ends left over from good cabs I made. When I tumbled this stuff I threw in everything, smalls, ends, odd junk, you name it. After they were polished I would sort the good shape from the bad. One day I brought the wrong case in and found out that a lot of the ladies liked what I thought was junk better than what I thought was the good stuff. After that I mixed it all together and sold a lot of stuff I thought would never sell. One never knows.........................MrP
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 9:34:36 GMT -5
jamesp- A Catholic Nun once asked me to give my interpretation of the lyrics for "Spirit in the Sky". It did not go well. I told her it was pretty self-explanatory,the scowl on her face told me that was the wrong answer. I was kept in from recess that day to reponder my response. Sensing that there is devious bloods in them veins. The grin on avatar telling in itself haha. You remind me of my best bud in high school and let me tell you we would still be incarcerated for 1/10 the crap we did if ever caught.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 9:37:52 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of the confetti glass, too. That last brick melt picture is yummy, too. Looking good, jamesp! I can make no claims Robin, all that is glass blower stuff. The brick is his stuff piled together and melted. What can I say other than had insight to get his scrap. Some arranging by chunks/shards/colors/patterns has little impact. But without his scrap things would be going slow.
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 25, 2018 9:39:04 GMT -5
HOLY MOLY Jim,those are smoking!!!!!
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 9:45:38 GMT -5
Another fan of the confetti And the pastels too Help me here Alison. I am almost sure the large plate is China made. Looks SDS to me. and it is common here in Atlanta. $13 at antique store yesterday. It has an old Stein Mart label, can;t be to valuable eh ? But it is mighty fine. Look familiar to you in any way. Has a ground dead flat base as much China made does. The ball is broken as purchased.
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Post by MsAli on Apr 25, 2018 10:12:17 GMT -5
Stein Mart is like an upperscale Marshall's They get left over stuff from major department stores. You are safe to break I'm gonna like that one alot
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 25, 2018 10:25:58 GMT -5
I can make no claims Robin, all that is glass blower stuff. The brick is his stuff piled together and melted. What can I say other than had insight to get his scrap. Some arranging by chunks/shards/colors/patterns has little impact. But without his scrap things would be going slow. Maybe so, James, but you saw the value in the scraps and even arranging them in a pleasing way is something not everyone can do. You have a good eye and that means something. You've come a long way from the beginning in making those bricks work!
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 11:20:40 GMT -5
Stein Mart is like an upperscale Marshall's They get left over stuff from major department stores. You are safe to break I'm gonna like that one alot I may be the first man on earth to make a dollar on the fact that the women in his life are shoppers.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 11:33:46 GMT -5
I can make no claims Robin, all that is glass blower stuff. The brick is his stuff piled together and melted. What can I say other than had insight to get his scrap. Some arranging by chunks/shards/colors/patterns has little impact. But without his scrap things would be going slow. Maybe so, James, but you saw the value in the scraps and even arranging them in a pleasing way is something not everyone can do. You have a good eye and that means something. You've come a long way from the beginning in making those bricks work! I'm a bit jazzed about this glass which seems to be stimulating other sections of my brain. I can't stop. Need to get some work done on the farm lol. No,no, must keep melting and shaping and tumbling glass. Thankfully this is a slow time of the year. There is a size between 3/4 and 1 1/4 inches of the scrap that yields the most color in the scrap. So sifting this size out has been a big help in increasing to pleasant color density for pendant size pieces. Maybe that is part of what is making the bricks work better. Maybe some would not think of that. Well, maybe a person that works with glass has never faced such an odd situation. I am certain that it is often better to have zero experience when delving into a well know field with fixed ways of doing things. A fixed way is often a curse IMO. Dive in w/out experience first and use your mind to your best ability and then come back and learn conventional. That way new methods are created without much choice in the matter. Something like that, if that makes any sense at all.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 25, 2018 11:37:30 GMT -5
A few shaped from last night's crop. Not a dent. Gotta go clean out tumblers and reload. Loaded the furnace again this morning. Wife says we have to go glass shopping this afternoon(left her at home last 2 trips). Go go go
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