newgrit
off to a rocking start
Member since August 2009
Posts: 10
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Post by newgrit on Oct 18, 2009 13:34:39 GMT -5
 I got a 9# Tumler tumbler in August and have finally completed two loads of broken wine bottles of the 7 days and 7 days and 3 days and then sent the keepers on thru a final 7 days of polish. I've diamond-drilled some to hang (perfect to hang on at eye level on a screen door to keep the wine drinkers from walking thru). When I saw Bikerrandy's tutorial on wire wrapping, I grabbed a handful of tools and some 20 gauge copper wire from the garage and followed his terrific sequence of pictures for awhile. My, ah, creation is a little crude, but I can see the possibilities. What have I learned? Patience, grasshopper. The multiple sequence of grits for days is just a suggestion. Drilling glass with a diamond bit or a tile bit is tricky. What comes out from the coarse grit is not what comes out after the next tumble with finer grit or polish. Wine festivals are a good source of blue glass. One tumbler is not enough. |
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Post by MyNewHobby on Oct 18, 2009 18:37:53 GMT -5
OMG!!!! I have to laugh and laugh and laugh!!!
Patience Grasshopper! I am so glad that I am not the only that has heard that time and time again.
I feel so relieved!!!
Goodness .... sounds like you have a great start on things and when you find your groove, you too will giggle later.
Nice Job!!!
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Post by Toad on Oct 18, 2009 21:51:13 GMT -5
Beautiful glass.
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Post by frane on Oct 20, 2009 18:59:29 GMT -5
I have been tumbling some glass too! It just looks so neat and your wrap is turning out nice!
Fran
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Post by roswelljero on Oct 23, 2009 15:15:10 GMT -5
Great start! Beautiful blue!
Later,
jeri
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tomcloss
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since October 2008
Posts: 158
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Post by tomcloss on Nov 2, 2009 17:56:14 GMT -5
Now you present me with a delima. Go smash all the empty wine bottles in my garage. Are save them for the mead thats brewing. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Got it Smash the bottles then I have an excuse to drink all the mead when its done instead of bottleing it.  Problem solved. BTW It looks like your doing better at wrapping then I did. Keep it up. |
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Bennett
starting to shine!
Member since March 2009
Posts: 35
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Post by Bennett on Nov 3, 2009 20:36:36 GMT -5
Thank you, I now have an excuse to hit the wine cabinet. I always need to have steady source of high quality wine bottle glass. ;D
Bennett
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Post by Bejewelme on Nov 4, 2009 13:37:40 GMT -5
Hey beautiful wine bottle cabs!!!! Looks like a cool idea!!
Tomcloss-I love meade my uncle bottles his own!!!!
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Problem solved. 
