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Post by MsAli on Jul 1, 2018 18:01:25 GMT -5
Ice and rest it while you can Did you see a Dr? Dr? Oh you know, one of those people who went and got a medical degree to diagnose people . There's even a group called orthopaedics that help with knees. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 1, 2018 18:20:01 GMT -5
This is all the same COE (90) Billy. Speaking of gloves, a fine blister hand nipping 45 pounds of plate glass. Gotta make a motorized glass chopper. Getting a grip like a vice. I know a bunch of folks 5 - 10 years younger than I getting artificial knees. Get well Billy, see the DOCTOR and stay off it. Don't get crippled dude. You'd go insane. This would be a well mixed brew of 26 colors. Washed the nipping dust off and repeatedly mixed to an equal blend. It's a lot of work. They will be divided into smaller containers and labeled '26 brew'. If you have to get interrupted nipping big plates constantly you loose your concentration trying to get your masterpiece accomplished.  They about all change colors so outcome will always be a riddle.  |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jul 1, 2018 19:26:57 GMT -5
I am amazed also at people who can draw and paint. I have seen some of the metal artists here that draw their piece out then make the piece. I just have silver and rocks and stuff and jewelry happens. fernwood your drawings are great! Been looking for said drawings Billy. Can you tell me where they are ?
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Post by jamesp on Jul 1, 2018 20:55:08 GMT -5
Been looking for said drawings Billy. Can you tell me where they are ? Thanks Robin, was/have been looking for them. I am not sure why the notification did not flag me. Probably too much glass OCD |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 2, 2018 7:58:05 GMT -5
Went with then first pot melt yesterday. Denise did the color stack. Bowl has 3 holes in it, glass pours out in 3 sections. Both of us surprised at the darkness. Thin transparent glass gets darker as it gets thicker. The shear thickness of the melt slab is the reason for the darkness.  Mars melt, ET phone home    |
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Post by fernwood on Jul 2, 2018 8:28:11 GMT -5
Cool.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jul 2, 2018 8:35:12 GMT -5
ET's cute. Who drew his lips on?  |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 2, 2018 9:25:22 GMT -5
ET's cute. Who drew his lips on? That would have be smart azz jamesp he he. I was considering a bra at first. I was pleased with the Fiestaware slab #1 so I am going to repeat it but bigger. A couple of knapping buddies have depleted my supply from the first one. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jul 2, 2018 9:54:23 GMT -5
Too funny!
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Post by jamesp on Jul 2, 2018 10:32:23 GMT -5
Tumbling discovery.
I laid a glass melt slab down and heard a sharp snap like static electricity.
What had happened was the canopy of a bubble broke and released gas at high pressure.
So I took an awl and started popping bubbles and the dogs got paranoid thinking lightning was striking close.
That answers the question about glass and obsidian releasing high pressure gas into a rotary tumbling barrel and blowing the cap off.
I'll post this in tumbling.
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Post by toiv0 on Jul 3, 2018 3:20:21 GMT -5
Tumbling discovery. I laid a glass melt slab down and heard a sharp snap like static electricity. What had happened was the canopy of a bubble broke and released gas at high pressure. So I took an awl and started popping bubbles and the dogs got paranoid thinking lightning was striking close. That answers the question about glass and obsidian releasing high pressure gas into a rotary tumbling barrel and blowing the cap off. I'll post this in tumbling. Makes you wonder how old the gas is that your burping from the tumbler. Toxicity? |
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Post by fernwood on Jul 3, 2018 4:03:50 GMT -5
Would be interesting to determine the composition of the gas.
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Post by jamesp on Jul 3, 2018 4:46:13 GMT -5
Tumbling discovery. I laid a glass melt slab down and heard a sharp snap like static electricity. What had happened was the canopy of a bubble broke and released gas at high pressure. So I took an awl and started popping bubbles and the dogs got paranoid thinking lightning was striking close. That answers the question about glass and obsidian releasing high pressure gas into a rotary tumbling barrel and blowing the cap off. I'll post this in tumbling. Makes you wonder how old the gas is that your burping from the tumbler. Toxicity? Gas in obsidian bubbles may be the oldest gas on earth. Even older than Billy's. Man made glass ? No telling what is in the gas since they use so many poisonous metals for coloring agents. I can say than one bubble might hold a bunch of gas since gas is compressible. No doubt under high pressure. Soft glass wears fast and the gas builds fast in the rotary. Hard glass wears slower and gas build up much slower. Recycle glass with tons of bubbles will blow the lid in 12 hours. Blown glass where the blower added copper oxide to make 'bubble glass' is best tumbled in the slant rotary tumbler where the gas can escape. I guess a terrible bomb would be a pipe bomb made out of a thick glass container. A thing of nightmares. Popping those bubbles sent tiny pieces of glass flying. One tiny splinter stuck in my neck. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 3, 2018 4:48:08 GMT -5
Would be interesting to determine the composition of the gas. Bet it is totally inorganic Beth. Probably of iron and silica composition. No telling what other elements are in obsidian though. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 3, 2018 6:33:30 GMT -5
2 out of about 30 boxes of salvage glass frit and thin confetti sheet. This stuff is what costs so much. A bunch of the frit is powdered glass used for painting and reactive effects. I see wild creations.  A sample of colors in the thin glass  |
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Post by fernwood on Jul 3, 2018 6:45:46 GMT -5
Wow. Nice stuff. I recognize some o the color names. Spectrum?
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Post by jamesp on Jul 3, 2018 7:23:33 GMT -5
Wow. Nice stuff. I recognize some o the color names. Spectrum? All of this is the import and apparently completely unknown to the US Beth. The colors are freaky Fiestaware colors and about all opaque. Even though they are named 'red opal', yellow opal, and others. Guessing they just copied Spectrum. Colors a mile off of equally named Spectrum. Great for man colors = tacky lol. However this is just a small percentage of the load. Fuse into the toughest densest glass. No problem with the strength. Did two massive slabs last night. Some guys want to make spearheads out of it. |
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Post by fernwood on Jul 3, 2018 7:30:50 GMT -5
Yes, foreign markets often copied names of US manufacturers. Tacky???
Glad the knappers are back on to you.
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Post by jamesp on Jul 3, 2018 7:44:42 GMT -5
Yes, foreign markets often copied names of US manufacturers. Tacky??? Glad the knappers are back on to you. Lol, tacky a seriously colloquial southern expression meaning "lacks in taste or etiquette". Mom used that word on me from the day I was born. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 3, 2018 9:24:05 GMT -5
Attempting a 3 pound melt brick of glass Fordite out of Fiestaware colored import glass. more technical of a project.
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