jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 26, 2018 13:44:06 GMT -5
Stock for pendants. Note orange when at 500F in kiln that is still turning back to sunflower yellow. Strange, the yellow returns over a day or two. One side of slab is melted with cab front up, the other half with cabs front down( for good reason). cab front on left half cab front on left half After using glass cutter and ready to reduce to smaller pieces for possible remelt and then tumbling.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 26, 2018 15:30:54 GMT -5
Separated and pre-shaped. Strange
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 15:46:17 GMT -5
Love the one in the middle-looks like a daisy
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Post by jamesp on Mar 26, 2018 16:38:47 GMT -5
Love the one in the middle-looks like a daisy Those are some by-product Alison. Probably close to the pole. They yellow was orange er than intended.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 16:45:10 GMT -5
Love the one in the middle-looks like a daisy Those are some by-product Alison. Probably close to the pole. They yellow was orange er than intended. I like the oranger -ish yellow
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Post by timloco on Mar 26, 2018 16:46:14 GMT -5
I think the random or accidental ones look the coolest, you should just melt a bunch with different patterns on it all randomly placed :-) This is a really neat project you got going!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 26, 2018 20:13:40 GMT -5
I was thinking the pieces in the second picture looked like florals and then I scrolled down and read Ali's post. Great minds and all that. Love the florals!
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 26, 2018 21:05:46 GMT -5
The 4th picture definitely looks floral. Very cool.
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Post by grizman on Mar 26, 2018 21:27:57 GMT -5
OK, they're not rocks but they sure are purdy! Is there any way to make the colors swirl?
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 26, 2018 22:35:55 GMT -5
The 4th picture definitely looks floral. Very cool. I obviously can't count today. I was talking about the 4th picture, not the 2nd.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 28, 2018 4:59:08 GMT -5
The 4th picture definitely looks floral. Very cool. I obviously can't count today. I was talking about the 4th picture, not the 2nd. Those floral patterns are process by-products from the blowing process. I can tell you where they come from. Every vase/plate/sculpture that gets blown has a clump of glass that connects it to the blowing tube. This clump of glass is intensely colored because it has been coated with colored glass like the target vase/plate/sculpture. However it does not stretch like the item being blown, therefore the intense color. It is often hammered off the blowing rod after the vase has been cut away. It is the predominate scrap item in a glass blowers glass pile. So there are thousands of them in every color and pattern imaginable. They resemble super thick cabs. They were laid down color side/concave side down on a sheet of fuse able clear glass sheet and melted which flattened them into 2 dimensional florets. In some cases the blower may have blown several hundred of the same vase, often he would throw these by-products into one trash bag or trash bucket. So there are both buckets of repeats and buckets of one-off vases. They look like this but in every pattern and color combo imaginable, basically unstretched colored glass. However the excess clear glass may get ground off on a 60 or 100 grit lap wheel to increase color ratio of clear glass to colored glass and/or control pre-melt position.: Same above but many melted individually and ready for trimming/tumble shaping/polishing. Easy cab melt. The excess clear glass around the edges is often nipped off with glass nippers and then ground to final shape.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 28, 2018 5:41:25 GMT -5
This machine blown reptile skin vase was purchased thrift for $15. Nipped it into about 150 pieces and melted. Test melt on a few pieces proved it to work with one of my temp schedules. About a 50% occurrence for rogue vases. Large melts, most 2+ inches for shape composition. Will saw/nip cabs out of each one, then tumble. Lots of waste but sweet spot extracted. Took 15 minutes to nip vase up, will take ~1.5 hours to prep/compose melts to 'near cabs' for tumbling. Will add 2 to 5 more vases to fill coarse shaping tumbler barrel as they hold 500 to 1000 units depending on size of barrel/shards. Often times will remelt again after shard is shaped into near cab to create a dome on one side. Or tumble to rounded edges and the remelt for specific girdle. Tumbler effect without remelt basically does domes on both sides for the wrappers out there. You can see the magnitude and volume these are produced at is substantial. Need about 5 vibratory tumblers to keep up with rotary tumbler and kiln, maybe some day if sales work out and someone can be hired to do the labor. Modified Vibrasonic is the best vibe for the job so far. Cost of machine and mods is $1800. Not cheap.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 28, 2018 7:41:37 GMT -5
The green reptile came out great!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 28, 2018 8:15:49 GMT -5
The green reptile came out great! It was a 100 foot dinosaur till I wrestled it and skinned it alive. The skin still wiggles in the glass.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 28, 2018 9:03:14 GMT -5
The green reptile came out great! It was a 100 foot dinosaur till I wrestled it and skinned it alive. The skin still wiggles in the glass. I like it better as pendants
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 28, 2018 9:41:56 GMT -5
You have a good eye for what will look good in cabs. Have to agree with Ali that the green dino glass looks better as cabs.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 29, 2018 13:59:31 GMT -5
Commissioned glass blower no base or mouth Note reactions at frit borders Fritted inside too MsAli, I was ecstatic for a hetero . He used 1.5 kilos of frit.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 29, 2018 14:05:11 GMT -5
I was ecstatic for a hetero . He used 1.5 kilos of frit. You are too funny and those are absolutely gorgeous!!!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 29, 2018 18:34:02 GMT -5
I was ecstatic for a hetero . He used 1.5 kilos of frit. You are too funny and those are absolutely gorgeous!!! Because of his ability to purchase wholesale frit and put clear cover coats on both sides I could not have made those if I wanted to for less than materials alone. It is a bargain. Retail material costs alone would have way surpassed the cost. Almost the clear overcoat alone much less the frit. Young guy w/lots of talent, guessing well known artists would have not even done it. Found a valuable resource. He warned me prices were subject to go up. I believe he is becoming a well known artist.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 29, 2018 18:56:49 GMT -5
I was ecstatic for a hetero . He used 1.5 kilos of frit. You are too funny and those are absolutely gorgeous!!! Because of his ability to purchase wholesale frit and put clear cover coats on both sides I could not have made those if I wanted to for less than materials alone. It is a bargain. Retail material costs alone would have way surpassed the cost. Almost the clear overcoat alone much less the frit. Young guy w/lots of talent, guessing well known artists would have not even done it. Found a valuable resource. He warned me prices were subject to go up. I believe he is becoming a well known artist. Is that Nate?
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