Glass April 10 melt/cabs

OK, number 1 compliment ever I piled this stuff on a plate in 3 minutes and melted it. I am a dunce, the blower made the color sweeps.

This blower's stuff is very detailed. He uses wild frit combos and lots of it.
He also packs white frit behind the color so that at melt it softens the edges of the colored frit.
Then his colored frit is so close together they mix and generate new colors at their many interfaces at melt for spectacular results.

I am going to meet with him and catalog these frits collected from his scraps for pendants.
They may be over the top but in the glass business color sells. That is why people like glass anyway.
I am having to scavenge the color out of these chunks, these pieces are in a variety of prep modes:

Yes, enameled

Reminds me of the 60's but I don't remember a lot from the 60's.

Here is another, 12 X 17 inches. i use a common glass cutter to break it down, then glass nippers to reduce to pendant size.
Then tumble to polish. The tumbler has quite an impact on changing color personality due to wear.

Before



after, some from both sides

jamesp they just keep getting better and better. Beautiful and more beautiful! Congratulations!

MsAli Pat hummingbirdstones thanks for the kind words.

The floret looking shapes are the root sections from the glass blower, the glass that is still stuck to the blowing pole after blowing a vase.
They crack this round chunk off a hammer, it is delicate because it was not annealed and breaks easy.
Thousands of different patterns and colors. In this case they were grouped by color - yellow-orange and black(s).
Unfortunately they are a bit repetitive in the floret' pattern but endless in color and color mix. a signature perhaps.

Robin, the color runs throughout except where the stringers were added so these can be tumble shaped
heavily without loosing colors. For example they could be heavily tumble shaped to dome faces on both sides,
or lightly tumble shaped for square edges for ease of wrapping. The stringers added can be tumbled off or thinner from center of dome to edge of dome.
To get a 'feathered' look.
Imagine a 3/4" thick stack 6 plates of 1/8" thick colored glass , say the spectrum, purple-blue-green-yellow-orange-red all melted down to 1/4" thick.
Then tumbled so the 6 colors would be exposed as the edges wear from tumbling. To give the effect of an agate. Like cabbing Fordite, make sense ?

Alison, the yellow bled into the chunks of pink and turned them soft peach. Intention was to do yellow and carnation pink but the pink frit lost it's pink.
Or it was a frit that looked pink before heating and turns to cream/peach after heating. It was unknown pink frit.
Anyway, yellow and pink will be a target combination, just need a source of pink frit.

He made a piece with pink and yellow that motivated me but pink is not in his scraps. Neither is straight white darn it.
I have great teal pieces, again the pink is in shortage.
Guessed pink and teal is in favor because it is all over Home Goods.
Will look for some pink sheet at the glass store, got some pink frit recently.

was out on deck tinkering with depth in photos.
it is difficult to see the 3 dimensions in photos.
(tired of pre-grinding for tumble.)
check em out

Looking yummy, jamesp!