jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 27, 2017 9:10:49 GMT -5
Found this 7 pound solid glass rooster in a HotAtlanta thrift store for $15. Hate to take a hammer to it but that's what is going to happen. With cullet glass chunks costing $10 to $20 per pound this is a bargain. Made in China, exquisitely done. Sorry Mr. Rooster.
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kevin24018
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Post by kevin24018 on Dec 27, 2017 9:44:49 GMT -5
Found this 7 pound solid glass rooster in a HotAtlanta thrift store for $15. Hate to take a hammer to it but that's what is going to happen. With cullet glass chunks costing $10 to $20 per pound this is a bargain. Made in China, exquisitely done. Sorry Mr. Rooster. such nice colors, I think I would cut parts of it to maybe get some larger and possibly rounder pieces, neat stuff.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 27, 2017 10:43:18 GMT -5
Found this 7 pound solid glass rooster in a HotAtlanta thrift store for $15. Hate to take a hammer to it but that's what is going to happen. With cullet glass chunks costing $10 to $20 per pound this is a bargain. Made in China, exquisitely done. Sorry Mr. Rooster. such nice colors, I think I would cut parts of it to maybe get some larger and possibly rounder pieces, neat stuff. I usually tumble pendant size stuff Kevin. But if an outstanding big chunk or two happens while hammering it down it will be targeted as a cool tumble. I have not mastered tumbling a 1 pound hunk of glass yet. Getting frost issues. However I recently bought some finer quartz aquarium gravel say 1/8 to 1/4 inch size to use as media hoping it will provide a gentler padded environment in the vibe for a big chunk of glass. I'll post the results of the hammer.
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Post by captbob on Dec 27, 2017 11:33:04 GMT -5
It's a chicken, shoot it!
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Post by captbob on Dec 27, 2017 11:33:26 GMT -5
and get that on video!
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Post by catskillrocks on Dec 27, 2017 11:48:24 GMT -5
Can't wait to see the progress.
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Post by fantastic5 on Dec 27, 2017 13:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by Garage Rocker on Dec 27, 2017 13:27:24 GMT -5
There's an inappropriate joke somewhere in this scenario. If only I could come up with something. Just be careful when you're pounding that thing. I'll leave it at that.
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Post by MsAli on Dec 27, 2017 13:31:39 GMT -5
There's an inappropriate joke somewhere in this scenario. If only I could come up with something. Just be careful when you're pounding that thing. I'll leave it at that.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 27, 2017 15:46:39 GMT -5
There's an inappropriate joke somewhere in this scenario. If only I could come up with something. Just be careful when you're pounding that thing. I'll leave it at that. Got choked up on that one Randy. Instead he got hammered took 15 minutes, 6 pounds 14 ounces to 3 pounds 4 ounces.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 27, 2017 15:51:27 GMT -5
I did make a video of a minutes worth of the hammer action.
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Post by MsAli on Dec 27, 2017 15:52:11 GMT -5
Jim, if im looking at that correctly the color doesn't go all the way thru the glass? Looks clear under a thin layer of color?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2017 20:54:25 GMT -5
Bookmarked, awaiting finished tumbles new year's Day or so.
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Post by krazydiamond on Dec 27, 2017 21:26:03 GMT -5
that is some pretty looking tumble! also looking forward to the progress and finished photos. though, i must say, the chicken thing was kinda cool.
KD
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Post by youp50 on Dec 27, 2017 22:12:58 GMT -5
Had I managed to find that, my Mrs would have taken the hammer to me had I damaged the rooster. I would have had the "pleasure" of looking at that one until one of us passed on.
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Post by grumpybill on Dec 28, 2017 5:53:55 GMT -5
I buy from thrift stores for making "sea glass". More often than not, the wife claims the glassware before I get a chance to break it up.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 28, 2017 6:20:22 GMT -5
Jim, if im looking at that correctly the color doesn't go all the way thru the glass? Looks clear under a thin layer of color? This is true. Some machine injected a balloon of colored glass down the center, inside of the balloon full of the same clear glass as on the outside. Fooled the heck out of me. Because it was a total balloon there was no way to tell it was a thin layer of color and not running full depth. So I had to bust my butt hammering the color out of the clear. Not really a problem, a small patch of color in each chip seems magnified throughout each piece. They even injected a thin layer of opaque white glass behind the color layer to block your view of their treachery lol. Why do you ask Alison ? Is this the work of a machine made counterfeit to a Murano ? Or would the Italians do the color the same way ? Me uneducated about glass. This piece lacks bubbles(which I prefer for tumbling): "5 Identify evidence of a hand-made piece. Murano glass is hand-blown, meaning there should be bubbles and asymmetrical qualities.[4]" This is a cross section of the thin section - the rooster's neck. You can see the 'balloon':
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Post by jamesp on Dec 28, 2017 6:37:44 GMT -5
youp50 and grumpybillSuch activity must take place at great distances from the better half. Or a sound proof man cave with a secret ingress/egress and large padlocks. Or better yet when she is way out of town. Of course you guys already know that.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 28, 2017 7:04:22 GMT -5
Bookmarked, awaiting finished tumbles new year's Day or so. I wish. Tumbling glass in rotary or vibe is slow going. You can course shape it fast which will put deep bruises in it. Then you have to roll it slow and gentle in 220 with lots of small filler and a slow grinding 85% barrel fill. Same in the vibe, slurry and longer gentle runs, smaller media. Vibe media: Matter of fact Scott, because ceramic media is complicated in it's composition I prefer using quartz pebbles for media in the vibe. I can go get bags of various pea gravel sizes from landscape supplies and pet stores. Screw ceramics, most have abrasives. 1/8, 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 inch sizes of quartz. I have screens for each size. The smaller the media the better luck I an having polishing glass in the vibe. I hand pick the 3/8 and 1/2 quartz pebbles manually. With 1/8 and 1/4 the gravel is set on an incline and a high percentage of the higher grade rounder quartz pebbles rolls to the bottom of the incline for separation from the trash. Had better polish with 3/8 verses 1/2. 1/2 verses 3/4. Next step is polishing up some 1/4 to see how it works. The smaller the media the more point loads on the surface of the delicate glass(think sand). Seems simple as that. However the more point loads the less pressure to break down abrasives. But small media will likely handle higher amplitude. The vibe is a complicated beast when all parameters are considered.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 28, 2017 7:17:44 GMT -5
that is some pretty looking tumble! also looking forward to the progress and finished photos. though, i must say, the chicken thing was kinda cool. KD My parents always sent me down to Florida to stay with my Grandmother on the ocean for the summer. She had a vast collection of handmade heavy European glass that intrigued me(I think she had money). That is where my interest in fancy glass was born krazydiamond. It has taken a long time to learn how to tumble polish glass. I believe that time has come. I will be visiting high end glass shops here in the big city looking for broken high end pieces to tumble. Slag and cullet glass can cost $10 to $50 per pound depending on the factory it came from, or higher. Not long ago it could be had for 50 cents/pound. It has become a collector's item.
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