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Post by jamesp on Apr 6, 2018 20:12:23 GMT -5
Melt blobs Vase shards Greens are melt blobs and black is shards(gold glitter obsidian not really)
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Post by orrum on Apr 6, 2018 20:18:49 GMT -5
Nice o awesomness Jim!
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Post by toiv0 on Apr 6, 2018 20:46:23 GMT -5
jamesp tormenting Billy...I like these. Got my springs for the lotto and its purring like a kitten, my batch will be transfered tomorrow.
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Post by gmitch067 on Apr 6, 2018 20:50:04 GMT -5
Beautiful jamesp!!! You have this down pat Great colors - Great composition - Great shine Glenn
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Post by MsAli on Apr 6, 2018 20:51:57 GMT -5
That black glitter is yummy!! 😍
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 6, 2018 21:07:22 GMT -5
They turned out fabulous! I feel like a magpie - I like the black sparkly ones, too!
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Post by jamesp on Apr 6, 2018 22:40:25 GMT -5
They turned out fabulous! I feel like a magpie - I like the black sparkly ones, too! That black glitter is yummy!! 😍 Never seen such a thin vase made of solid black glass, usually the black is a thin layer blown in or the glass is solid black but thick. Black glass is typically soft and somewhat transparent. This glass hard and took high polish. A very thin coat of clear glass clads the sprinkles. Vase made in Poland and that country has some fine glass. Sparkles threw photo off, those sparkles are dazzling. The green melts surrounding the glitters was a big vase that hit the floor at Decatur Glass Alison. Orange millefiori's rolled in them but not obvious in these. Got a big load of them. Green has glitter in them too.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 6, 2018 22:48:43 GMT -5
Beautiful jamesp!!! You have this down pat Great colors - Great composition - Great shine Glenn Time spent melting scrap from the glass blowers is improving and now starting to hit the polish step. Should be some improvements in them from here on. Many of them are large and fairly thick making them trickier due to potential bruising when using minimal media.
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Post by MsAli on Apr 6, 2018 22:53:37 GMT -5
These 2 are pretty awesome as well
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Post by jamesp on Apr 6, 2018 22:55:18 GMT -5
jamesp tormenting Billy...I like these. Got my springs for the lotto and its purring like a kitten, my batch will be transfered tomorrow. Waiting to see your success Billy. I'm almost to a fine polish using the rotary. Been running rotary tests since the vibes are backed up and got a pile of glass to fool with. Sure would like to loose the vibes.
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Post by fernwood on Apr 7, 2018 2:49:58 GMT -5
Like the black for sure. All are looking good.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2018 5:08:41 GMT -5
The orange swirl was another vase that hit the floor at Decatur MsAli. It was a 2 vase boo boo. The one below it was a mix melt.
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 7, 2018 5:47:10 GMT -5
Has anyone down at the shop gotten suspicious that these vases keep hitting the floor?
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2018 6:04:21 GMT -5
Like the black for sure. All are looking good. Hard to find black vases fernwood. Noticed that black frit is one of the most expensive. Not sure what composition goes into black glass but it must not be cheap to make. I melted some purchased COE 96 glass plate to some scraps and it was the hardest glass ever, could hardly nip it. I drop test a sample from most of my melt batches from 4 feet onto concrete to make sure the batch is annealed well and stable. I had to throw the black glass melts against the concrete to break them. On the other side, lots of black glass is full of defects and weak. Probably depends on coloring agent. Gold was used to make red glass back in the old days, cheaper cadmium and selenium is used more these days and it is cheaper. The EPA has cracked down on heating some of these poisonous metals like cadmium, uranium, etc here in the US. Once converted into the glass it is safe, it is the process that is being scrutinized by the EPA. So, my fine flow of imported glass here in Atlanta from the orient is yielding el primo colors that are getting hard to find, not much EPA in the orient.
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Post by Noosh9057 on Apr 7, 2018 6:29:34 GMT -5
All looking great.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2018 6:52:11 GMT -5
Has anyone down at the shop gotten suspicious that these vases keep hitting the floor? Jokingly told the 2 glass blowers I was tipping their helpers to have more accidents. Joke turned bad when one of the helpers bumped into two $1000 vases a couple of days later and almost got fired. I am now casually melting, slumping, annealing and pre-shaping almost every piece that goes into the tumbler Henry. It has been a long road to get to this point because of getting educated on melting glass mostly. Decisions on marketing state are now being considered, looks like high quality 925 pinch bales will be the way. $20 each w/no chain. I am getting consistent fine cross sections from melting and 2 sided polishes from tumbling. Many are as attractive on the backside as they are the fronts. For this reason the pinch bales will work best for 2 sided presentations instead of paying attention to girdle dimensions for wrappers and setters. These are the one and two sided dome cross sections and back sides continually being produced at this point. typical melt cross sections silhouettes(improving with grinding experience), fronts, then backs with color/pattern
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2018 6:59:28 GMT -5
Thanks noosh ! I'm exhausted. Finally getting process dailed in. Been a long long road. Lost 15 pounds and long hours. Lots of help and great advise along the way. If I can only get rid of the high maintenance vibratory tumblers and do the finishing in the rotaries.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2018 7:11:44 GMT -5
Batch in 9 pound rotary barrel looking very pre-polished. Likely will cut vibe polish time down from two 48 hour steps to a single step 6 hours/batch. Damn finicky vibes.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2018 7:35:14 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Apr 7, 2018 7:48:57 GMT -5
grumpybill toiv0 orrum - Every batch has been with the nipple on the bottom of the hopper resting/making contact to base for what it is worth. This batch rivaled the polish I was getting in the modified Vibrasonic. Appears the reason is a 60 hour polish run instead of a 48 hour run in the Lot-O. The modified Vibrasonic does an equal polish in 18 hours, perhaps due to the 3X faster rolling action. It does the pre-polish step very well too but takes 2 days. It is my work horse. I can not get a very good pre-polish step using the Lot-O with my technique and am not running it longer than 2 days to find out. I am fast at work testing recipes to do as much of the pre-polish and polish in the larger capacity rotaries. Getting close on that task. Most of my experience is rotary tumbling.
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