fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Mar 7, 2017 20:10:45 GMT -5
Thanks for the photos. Those are just too cool. I am going to make a trip there to find my own. Now officially on the bucket list.
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Post by fireforged on Mar 6, 2017 20:15:53 GMT -5
I think the rule of thumb for producing pretty beads is that you must first use up about ten lbs off glass making ugly ones. I know it was several years before I made anything worthwhile. Even now after ten years of doing hot glass I make a lot of ugly ones.
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Post by fireforged on Mar 6, 2017 20:08:49 GMT -5
Those look real fab Don
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Post by fireforged on Mar 6, 2017 8:29:53 GMT -5
Hey thanks for posting those pictures. Looks like a lot of rough to sort through and cut. How often do the nodules turn out to have the fortification agate in them? I wish I knew more about the Teepee canyon agate. Glenn I will have to just get out there and start looking and learning.
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Mar 3, 2017 8:01:44 GMT -5
Very nice. Love the stone.
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Post by fireforged on Mar 2, 2017 18:07:01 GMT -5
I don't have the answer but think we could all use a couple of pictures to help us define the problem. (Really I just want to see more of your work)
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Post by fireforged on Mar 2, 2017 12:51:09 GMT -5
would like to see the teepee canyon nodules too.
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Post by fireforged on Mar 1, 2017 21:28:54 GMT -5
48 lbs. The only thing for me to say is WOW.
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Post by fireforged on Mar 1, 2017 21:06:44 GMT -5
Very nice.
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Mar 1, 2017 21:04:39 GMT -5
Love the shank. If you don't mind I want to use this in my own work.
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fireforged
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Post by fireforged on Feb 16, 2017 19:23:31 GMT -5
I like this, nice metal work too. I have a torch I picked up at an auction for a couple bucks, I might take a pic and post it and you could tell me if its a glass torch or just scrap. I would not mind helping. Most glass touches use oxygen in addition to a fuel like propane. You use the oxygen to raise the heat of the torch in addition to controlling the amount of carbon in the flame. The temp and carbon interact with the chemistry of the glass and have a big impact on the color. That said there are some simple torches that just use mapp gas. It all depends on what you want to spend money on. The RTH community does a lot of home made and self made tooling that I don't see in the hot glass community.
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Post by fireforged on Feb 16, 2017 18:49:38 GMT -5
I don't think so. chrysocolla and turquoise not variscite and turquoise.
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Post by fireforged on Feb 16, 2017 16:29:08 GMT -5
Nothing better than being a grandparent.
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Post by fireforged on Feb 16, 2017 16:20:02 GMT -5
I have been there. Have never had the courage to even order gold metal for a project. I have had projects wait for months even years before I have had the courage to finally do them and afterwards I ask why was that so hard?
Your project looks beautiful. Can you even tell me what the hold up was?
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Post by fireforged on Feb 16, 2017 9:31:58 GMT -5
Tims Thanks for the report. just what I expected. It would be a bear to get stuck at the bottom of that big hill. I have hunted that area two times. I have thought that it might be productive to work along the rim for newly exposed rock. The creek bottom is full of calcedony but it is thin and I don't know how you would use it. I found the thicker pieces of calcedony up on the hill side. The thicker pieces showed some nice banding that I used to cut cabs.
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 21:16:10 GMT -5
Tims I have been tempted to head out to Indian Creek also and wondered how wet everything was. I figured the snow was mostly gone but am not really interested in fighting the mud. Can you give me a scouting report?
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 19:43:24 GMT -5
The glass cabs totally bombed when I listed them. I tried to vary them with lots of colors and I thought they were neat but I don't think anyone could figure out what to do with them. I did not sell a single one. I did much better selling plain one color small beads that could have come out of China at a fraction of the price. Well, that blows! yep could not have said it better
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 18:01:06 GMT -5
The glass cabs totally bombed when I listed them. I tried to vary them with lots of colors and I thought they were neat but I don't think anyone could figure out what to do with them. I did not sell a single one.
I did much better selling plain one color small beads that could have come out of China at a fraction of the price.
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 17:41:46 GMT -5
Tela, thank you for your kind comments. Your boro work is very nice. I love your use of color.
I have done some boro but work mostly in soft glass because my equipment is better sized for that. I am mostly self taught. don't have much contact with other lampworkers out here on the prairie. For that matter don't have much contact with other people other than my computer.
My daughter encouraged me to produce the headpins. I did a few as a one off and she jumped on them and told me to make more. I figured out a way to put larger globs of glass on the silver wire and then manipulate it without causing the sire to bend and break. When I started there were not a lot of people doing headpins, but now there are a bunch of them and some do incredible work.
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Post by fireforged on Feb 15, 2017 17:14:54 GMT -5
Every thing I could. I have some of my "stuff" in a Etsy store that my wife runs (DakotaPrairieStudio). I gave up my own store because it depressed me too much.
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