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Post by jamesp on Feb 21, 2020 11:06:40 GMT -5
7 pound barrel holds about 180 of these. Maybe 120 end up being sellable. Started with 12 pounds of glass in a 12 pound barrel. Wore down to 9 pounds. After course they were moved into a 9 pound barrel to do SiC 500 Ended up with 7 pounds out of rotary. 6.7 ponds out of vibe. Lips fused from 2 cuts of glass cut out of the curved side of a glass vase. These were hammered, drilled and tumbled out of a 12 pound brick. Drilled holes need beveling to remove tumble born chips at hole shoulders.
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Post by captbob on Feb 22, 2020 18:22:57 GMT -5
What are you doing with all those necklaces?
You buy a Volkswagon van and plan to follow the Grateful Dead around? (are the Grateful Dead still a thing?)
just curious ...
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 22, 2020 19:25:57 GMT -5
Nice! The lips turned out exceptionally well. Can't help it, but every time I see jamesp glass lips this video pops in my head. Now I have to get it out:
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 7:07:21 GMT -5
What are you doing with all those necklaces? You buy a Volkswagon van and plan to follow the Grateful Dead around? (are the Grateful Dead still a thing?) just curious ... How about tiling the bathroom with them ? Kitchen backsplash ? Maybe the 20 year old niece can sell them after I'm gone. As gifts they have been well received. More so than imagined... Question - what's going on with the avatar ?
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 7:50:26 GMT -5
Nice! The lips turned out exceptionally well. Can't help it, but every time I see jamesp glass lips this video pops in my head. Now I have to get it out:
Lol, the lips are truly a strange creation. The first lip was entirely an accident go figure. Never thought they could be repeated. Yes, repeated and improved. A wip Robin. I pulled Denise's creations out. She does fine individually composed single melts. Melting in patterned glass from the glass blower on different back ground colors and adding accents has paid off for her. They are very unlike any fused glass jewels. They rarely melt to a finished cab shape and they almost always have a haze finish. The higher temperature blowing operation renders the glass tough and unable to fuse polish. The average glass artist would have to dispose of just about every one of these based on haze finish alone. Because they could not polish them much less grind them to cab shape and then polish them like lapidary methods can. The end result after shaping/tumbling/polishing them is an unusual fused glass creation because of the blown patterns cooked in. This is one of two large shoe boxes full of her fused pieces. I have made a bunch of them too. Lots of stock to finish. I set the 100 grit lapper and drill up in a comfortable location for her to shape/drill them(she wants me to show her how to rough cab). I hope she will master the cabbing operation. I have it down to about 30-40 seconds per piece, a shape good enough for the tumbler round to a decent cab. Note dull finish, awkward shapes. But there is a jewel in each. The 100 grit lapper wheel makes fast work of these melt blobs being partially shaped like a cab. Typical melt cabs after 30 seconds shaping on the lap and them tumbled. This would be a typical 8 shelf melt in the small kiln. Lots of cabs, quite productive.
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Post by fernwood on Feb 23, 2020 8:21:17 GMT -5
Nice. Lots of great jewels there.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 8:33:02 GMT -5
There is a good chance SiC 500 for 7 days will both do the shaping and the vibe prep. When SiC 500 is double dosed I experience large amounts of weight reduction in a 7 day run. Even a light slurry will suspend the small SiC 500. Either way the SiC 500 is completely broken down and the glass is shaped AND ready to transfer to the vibe after 7 days.
Check this out:
I have been screening raw SiC to get SiC 10. I have been rough shaping sawn glass blocks about 2" X 1" X 3/8" repetitively. One load after another. If I use 1/2 cup #10 for 7 pounds of sawn glass blocks I get 1x wear in 7 days If I use 1 cup #10 I get what seems to be 2X wear in 7 days. If I use 2 cups #10 I get 4X wear in 7 days.
Just saying, the heavier doses has a big impact on grind time. May have to thin slurry. I scavenge and set the leftover SiC 10 to the side and will reuse it at a later date. No loss there.
Assume a mathematician could calculate the amount of surface area(easy to do if running 7 pounds of 1" x 2" X 3/8" blocks)in the tumbler. Then calculate the number of #10 particles in 1/2, 1, 2 cups of #10 he would know the theoretical distance between the particles.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 9:11:41 GMT -5
Nice. Lots of great jewels there. Have not put a dent in the glass Beth. What to do with it all ? Got the neighbor's wife interested. I need an army to cook all this stuff. Maybe my wife will let me hire an army of young Asian girls !
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 23, 2020 9:20:41 GMT -5
Denise's creations are awesome. If she wants to learn to rough out a cab shape, she will pick it up in less than 10 minutes, I'm sure.
You guys are going gang busters on those cabs!
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 11:02:52 GMT -5
Denise's creations are awesome. If she wants to learn to rough out a cab shape, she will pick it up in less than 10 minutes, I'm sure. You guys are going gang busters on those cabs! Funny thing happened Robin. As soon as I drilled and tumbled, strung cord on a few of them, she became alive lol. Almost as if on drugs ! She has been spending hours stringing and organizing them. Looking at markets, setting up mailing packaging methods, buying the gift bags, etc. I could use her help. I just didn't have the interest in taking things to the next step. I dug her creations up out of the work area. She may have forgotten how well she did on them. She is over there categorizing them as a I type. Her style is a great balance for my stuff. She gets into the individual composition and does well at it. Add the 2 of our styles together and it should be a wild assortment. The 'story' theme sure helps sell stuff these days. I was thinking a photo blog would be a great way to capture interest since the process is easy to photograph and explain. Every step from raw material to final product ain't too boring being there are so many steps. People marvel at production processes.
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Post by captbob on Feb 23, 2020 11:10:27 GMT -5
Maybe my wife will let me hire an army of young Asian girls ! I hear they are on sale.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 23, 2020 12:31:16 GMT -5
Denise's creations are awesome. If she wants to learn to rough out a cab shape, she will pick it up in less than 10 minutes, I'm sure. You guys are going gang busters on those cabs! Funny thing happened Robin. As soon as I drilled and tumbled, strung cord on a few of them, she became alive lol. Almost as if on drugs ! She has been spending hours stringing and organizing them. Looking at markets, setting up mailing packaging methods, buying the gift bags, etc. I could use her help. I just didn't have the interest in taking things to the next step. I dug her creations up out of the work area. She may have forgotten how well she did on them. She is over there categorizing them as a I type. Her style is a great balance for my stuff. She gets into the individual composition and does well at it. Add the 2 of our styles together and it should be a wild assortment. The 'story' theme sure helps sell stuff these days. I was thinking a photo blog would be a great way to capture interest since the process is easy to photograph and explain. Every step from raw material to final product ain't too boring being there are so many steps. People marvel at production processes. You could do a blog but I think you two would kill it on Instagram. People sell stuff like crazy on there.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 12:41:32 GMT -5
Maybe my wife will let me hire an army of young Asian girls ! I hear they are on sale. Now Bob.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 23, 2020 12:47:18 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 12:48:18 GMT -5
Funny thing happened Robin. As soon as I drilled and tumbled, strung cord on a few of them, she became alive lol. Almost as if on drugs ! She has been spending hours stringing and organizing them. Looking at markets, setting up mailing packaging methods, buying the gift bags, etc. I could use her help. I just didn't have the interest in taking things to the next step. I dug her creations up out of the work area. She may have forgotten how well she did on them. She is over there categorizing them as a I type. Her style is a great balance for my stuff. She gets into the individual composition and does well at it. Add the 2 of our styles together and it should be a wild assortment. The 'story' theme sure helps sell stuff these days. I was thinking a photo blog would be a great way to capture interest since the process is easy to photograph and explain. Every step from raw material to final product ain't too boring being there are so many steps. People marvel at production processes. You could do a blog but I think you two would kill it on Instagram. People sell stuff like crazy on there. I interviewed a 28 yr old web SEO fellow the other day. He voted Instagram over Facebook for social media sales for client base 35-40 and younger. He suggested Facebook for the older 40+ fire pit client base. Overwhelmingly voted Instagram for a glass jewelry web site.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 12:51:50 GMT -5
My first was from Korea. Spoiled me so rotten. Subservience wasn't such a common trait amongst the American gals following...
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 23, 2020 13:00:20 GMT -5
Yeah, we don't put up with that kind of crap.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 23, 2020 14:57:04 GMT -5
Yeah, we don't put up with that kind of crap. Lol. She had been in the States for 3 years. It took about a year for her to be trained to the other ways. But she remained 'original' for my benefit. You could say I was grandfathered in he he. Funny thing, she got the royal treatment with the submissive hat on. Heart breaker. I had to keep her away from my Dad. He was jealous of the submissive treatment he observed.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 24, 2020 8:41:41 GMT -5
My favorite cord company. Located in India. They also sell tumbled rocks in many varieties. The best part is that they sell small 10 meter lots of 1mm-2mm-3mm leather cord in all colors for about $5/spool. www.xsotica.com/leather-cords/round-leather-cord/
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