jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 12, 2018 4:15:04 GMT -5
Thanks lookatthat. Building a pile of glass in sequence to melt it ends up often being a 3 dimensional mind bender puzzle. However you don't often know how it is going to collapse. Sorta like placing explosions to implode a building. Fall to the left ? Fall to the right ? Or land on top of itself ?
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zekesman
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Post by zekesman on Mar 12, 2018 13:25:28 GMT -5
I have made an offer on a true glass kiln on Craig's list. It is quite a bit larger than my little brick kiln. It should make production much easier. Better quality. More variety of process. You will love your glass kiln if you get one. the digital controller is so nice! Set it and go to bed.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 12, 2018 15:36:37 GMT -5
I have made an offer on a true glass kiln on Craig's list. It is quite a bit larger than my little brick kiln. It should make production much easier. Better quality. More variety of process. You will love your glass kiln if you get one. the digital controller is so nice! Set it and go to bed. Got one zeke, bought a bigger one today. Both Sentry 3.0 controller on Paragons(a pair of Paragons). Yes, set and go to sleep. One was $1200 new for $400 used, the other $1700 new for $500 used. Both w/tons of glass and kiln shelving. The big one is a Paragon 10 glass kiln.
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Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on Mar 13, 2018 7:41:55 GMT -5
Now you can do some real heat treating to some rocks
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Post by fantastic5 on Mar 13, 2018 7:49:26 GMT -5
Better and better with each and every batch.
And giving firepits as thank youse...very generous. I bet they are falling over to help you whenever you show up!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 14, 2018 5:32:03 GMT -5
Better and better with each and every batch. And giving firepits as thank youse...very generous. I bet they are falling over to help you whenever you show up! The glass blowers are cool. They have a passion. They live for what they do and the income seems viewed as necessity. Fun to watch them as they are so into what they do. I don't think they manage their lives well, priorities. They don't pay me near as much attention as I pay to them. I can't wait to hire them to blow jewelry glass stock. May have to have sells in place before that happens as they are expensive. I am going thru the scrap glass and collecting a lot of the clear glass and washing it so they can use for re-melt in their stock pot of clear glass. I think they pay $150 for 40 pound bags of clear glass. As I am separating glass I can set the pure clear aside. They don't have access space to cleaning and much water to use. And drainage issues. All easy for me.
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Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on Mar 14, 2018 9:20:59 GMT -5
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 17, 2018 4:05:02 GMT -5
Funny you mention this woofer. I was planning on tumbling various minerals and metals to scavenge the slurry for making reactive glass colors. Perhaps rhyolite or andesite glass ?
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 17, 2018 4:22:20 GMT -5
Better and better with each and every batch. And giving firepits as thank youse...very generous. I bet they are falling over to help you whenever you show up! I need to melt some of those beads you gave me. Most bead glass is COE 104. I bought a used kiln recently and the guy had a fortune in COE 104 colored glass rods which I bought also. Enough to melt plenty of pendants out of. The cost in glass is the colored glass. Got another supply of scrap blown glass @ 200 pounds/week, loaded with the shard in my hand. A recent contract pattern they did.
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Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on Mar 17, 2018 5:37:45 GMT -5
Funny you mention this woofer. I was planning on tumbling various minerals and metals to scavenge the slurry for making reactive glass colors. Perhaps rhyolite or andesite glass ? Sure , melting glass is cool But melting your own rocks would give some street-cred
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Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on Mar 17, 2018 5:49:51 GMT -5
Doesen't your wife make pendant lamps ? Would be neat to cast some lamps out of art glass or stone . . .
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 17, 2018 10:03:20 GMT -5
Doesen't your wife make pendant lamps ? Would be neat to cast some lamps out of art glass or stone . . . The glass blower I get the scrap from would smoke me, he does lamp shades. His primary income. Plus my wife just uses me. Rode hard and put up wet here woofer.
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