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Post by MsAli on May 17, 2018 12:15:11 GMT -5
Not kidding you. I can't make this shit up, lol. Maybe you should look stuff up before labelling yourself with it? Besides, I know your middle name starts with "A." Thanks Jean. I should a bit more particular about naming myself. On Urban Dictionary maybe it means that -among another thing
Urban Dictionary is entertaining reading.
Other wise it means a person responsible for obtaining supplies for a household or monastery (Wikipedia)
Been bothering the nuns jamesp ? 
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Post by 1dave on May 17, 2018 13:05:01 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 17, 2018 13:12:10 GMT -5
Thanks Jean. I should a bit more particular about naming myself. On Urban Dictionary maybe it means that -among another thing
Urban Dictionary is entertaining reading.
Other wise it means a person responsible for obtaining supplies for a household or monastery (Wikipedia)
Been bothering the nuns jamesp ? 
Full disclosure on Urban Dictionary -
Top definition
Purvis
Contrary to the belief of the authors of the other definitions, the coolest person of all time.
Wasn't going to mention that one. You kidding me? That would make James' head swell, lol.
This is PURVI, not Purvis, so doesn't count
2. purvi
(n). Of the most pious and faithful to the truth and her destiny.
(adj.) –ly.. A beacon of light in the darkest of night.
(v). To smile profoundly and uncontrollably, the feeling of satisfaction through beauty.
purvis
i. to viciously and insistently annoy and flirt with every member of the female sex...
ii. to viciously and insistently annoy and flirt with every member of the male sex...
Left off the second part of that one, as I don't think that would apply in this case, lol.
Other wise it means a person responsible for obtaining supplies for a household or monastery (Wikipedia)
Wiki said nothing of the sort. They said Purvis is a surname and occasionally a masculine given name, then list various famous Purvises (Purvii?)
Ancestry.com said: "Scottish and northern English (Northumberland and Durham): probably from Middle English purveys 'provisions', 'supplies' (from Middle English purvey(en), Old French porveoir 'to provide, supply'), hence a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for obtaining supplies for a monastery or manor house."
There ya have it.
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Post by MsAli on May 17, 2018 13:20:20 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on May 17, 2018 18:34:08 GMT -5
Thanks Jean. I should a bit more particular about naming myself. On Urban Dictionary maybe it means that -among another thing
Urban Dictionary is entertaining reading.
Other wise it means a person responsible for obtaining supplies for a household or monastery (Wikipedia)
Been bothering the nuns jamesp ?
Nuns ?? Where !! Trying to remember if I have ever been in a nuns presence .... I almost married a preacher's daughter but she didn't seem to nunly. In fact far from it. |
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Post by jamesp on May 17, 2018 18:46:13 GMT -5
On Urban Dictionary maybe it means that -among another thing
Urban Dictionary is entertaining reading.
Other wise it means a person responsible for obtaining supplies for a household or monastery (Wikipedia)
Been bothering the nuns jamesp ?
Full disclosure on Urban Dictionary -
Top definition
Purvis
Contrary to the belief of the authors of the other definitions, the coolest person of all time.
Wasn't going to mention that one. You kidding me? That would make James' head swell, lol.
This is PURVI, not Purvis, so doesn't count
2. purvi
(n). Of the most pious and faithful to the truth and her destiny.
(adj.) –ly.. A beacon of light in the darkest of night.
(v). To smile profoundly and uncontrollably, the feeling of satisfaction through beauty.
purvis
i. to viciously and insistently annoy and flirt with every member of the female sex...
ii. to viciously and insistently annoy and flirt with every member of the male sex...
Left off the second part of that one, as I don't think that would apply in this case, lol.
Other wise it means a person responsible for obtaining supplies for a household or monastery (Wikipedia)
Wiki said nothing of the sort. They said Purvis is a surname and occasionally a masculine given name, then list various famous Purvises (Purvii?)
Ancestry.com said: "Scottish and northern English (Northumberland and Durham): probably from Middle English purveys 'provisions', 'supplies' (from Middle English purvey(en), Old French porveoir 'to provide, supply'), hence a metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for obtaining supplies for a monastery or manor house."
There ya have it.
It's not easy being a Purvis Jean. Not even for a day. Ole Purvis is a man of many hats. Inscrutable fellow that Purvis. |
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Post by jamesp on May 17, 2018 18:56:30 GMT -5
That looks like an old Edmund Scientific giant fresnel lens Dave. wish they still sold them. "In 1982, while leafing through an Edmund Scientific catalog, I came across an item with the headline "Melts Asphalt in Seconds!" It was a giant Fresnel lens, 80cm x 100cm (about a yard square), which would capture close to a kilowatt of solar energy. The idea of a lens that could "melt asphalt in seconds" was frankly appealing. I already had a 30cm (1') square Fresnel lens, also from Edmund Scientific, that I had bought about five years before, and while it could be used to ignite wood and such, it was no asphalt-melter. This new lens should have almost TEN TIMES the POWER, an exhilarating thought. It cost $105, quite a sum for me at that time, but I had to have one. After receiving it, I found that it did perform as advertised. I built a frame for it and had fun using it to make combustible objects burst into flame, melting golf balls (the rubber cord inside comes writhing out in a most animated fashion), and generally obliterating things. In 1998 I built an altitude mount for the lens, with a tray positioned at the focus on which to place objects to be Seen by the Sun. Not having to hold the lens made it a lot more fun to play with. It made it possible to boil water, melt lead, and such." Very cool jewels 1dave. They made fresnels for TV screen magnifiers, I have one and it is 18 X 24 and it will boil flesh in a second.  |
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Post by jamesp on May 18, 2018 6:56:21 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on May 18, 2018 9:47:10 GMT -5
This melt batch may be 40 to 50 hours work. It is old school skill type work that comes 2nd nature with repetition. The pre-cutting and grinding is where the time is. I did this many on a prior vase only to find the red glass cracked and wasted a lot of material but learned technique. Cutting the right curves out of the vase is a trick in alignment, angles and lengths. Then mating them to melt seamless and melt collapsing the bottoms by grinding is another animal. Another concern is protecting the colored glass with clear glass so the color does not get tumbled away.  |
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Post by MrP on May 18, 2018 12:53:48 GMT -5
Those are great................................MrP |
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Post by MsAli on May 18, 2018 15:51:23 GMT -5
Those are pretty dam cool
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Post by fernwood on May 18, 2018 16:59:06 GMT -5
Awesome. Love the parted lips. Now time to fuse some teeth as an experiment (if you have not already done so).
For those who have not seen the lips in person. There is a realistic texture on them. Simply amazing.
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Post by jamesp on May 19, 2018 5:32:20 GMT -5
fernwood MsAliThanks for the words. The grinding involved in lip melts are similar to pre-grinding a complex welded piece of steel. Mistakes are not forgiving, lots of labor lost if melt/weld goes south. The straighter bottom lip is sawn from top to bottom of vase where glass has less curve. The more curved bottom lip is a strip of glass sawn from around the vase to get a curve. The fat part of the vase yields less curve in the bottom lip, as the vase gets smaller in diameter like the bottle neck more curve can be obtained. In the case of this fusible vase it has been cut into preliminary lip blanks. I can extract curves or straights. The blanks are all cut to close-to-lip width. This vase so thick and hard so I will change tile saw blades. The glass blade is just too slow to make so many cuts so a more aggressive tile blade will be bolted on. And the chipping caused by the coarser blade will not be a problem because the color layers were blown in so thick. About 20% of the vase goes down the drain because of the plethora of cuts, saw blade .060 wide and it wastes a lot of glass. No idea what brand this vase is. All I can say it was one fine work of art and made out of the finest glass. Weighed 8 pounds so no cost was spared in glass volume. Colors unfamiliar in glass work. The base was confetti'ed and is an inch thick. It too will be chopped up to yield lip glass stock. This vase should be good for about 45 life size lips depending on how big the lips are. (big mouth's need more glass, Alison seems to talk a lot he he) 
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Post by fernwood on May 19, 2018 5:38:04 GMT -5
Thought of you recently while at a thrift shop. There, for $2.50, was a very thick, 1920's, 16" tall, Royal Ruby vase. Very dark red. Only texture was a scalloped edge on the top. I have the same vase.
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Post by jamesp on May 19, 2018 6:09:17 GMT -5
Thought of you recently while at a thrift shop. There, for $2.50, was a very thick, 1920's, 16" tall, Royal Ruby vase. Very dark red. Only texture was a scalloped edge on the top. I have the same vase. Appears the glass fusing group jealous of cheap vase glass. The biggest fuse glass source (Spectrum) has all but dissolved and these people are flailing around a bit because their reliable source of glass for decades is in turmoil. It takes a decade to learn a certain supplier's glass well. They may be crippled and have to start learning how to work with other glass. I think they are watching me-newbie messing w/the thrift vases lol. I spent half a day walking thru Scott's Antique Market last weekend and found only 4 blown vases out of 5 acres of dealers. Blown glass is just not 'vogue' these days. Can't give it away. Small sample batches of just a few of the thrift vases tumbled. I do see the ruby red vases regularly Beth. Photos start with 'most recent' www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/39344663805/in/album-72157691212514980/lightbox/ |
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Post by jamesp on May 19, 2018 6:25:36 GMT -5
I got 4 colors of Silly Putty. I have more colors than hummingbirdstones has.  I have yet to try drilling the glass using the Silly Putty Robin. Judging from the way it forms in hand under a piece of glass in tap water I would say it will be an excellent backing support for drilling. it seems totally resilient to water.  |
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Post by MsAli on May 19, 2018 7:57:08 GMT -5
fernwood MsAli Thanks for the words. The grinding involved in lip melts are similar to pre-grinding a complex welded piece of steel. Mistakes are not forgiving, lots of labor lost if melt/weld goes south. The straighter bottom lip is sawn from top to bottom of vase where glass has less curve. The more curved bottom lip is a strip of glass sawn from around the vase to get a curve. The fat part of the vase yields less curve in the bottom lip, as the vase gets smaller in diameter like the bottle neck more curve can be obtained. In the case of this fusible vase it has been cut into preliminary lip blanks. I can extract curves or straights. The blanks are all cut to close-to-lip width. This vase so thick and hard so I will change tile saw blades. The glass blade is just too slow to make so many cuts so a more aggressive tile blade will be bolted on. And the chipping caused by the coarser blade will not be a problem because the color layers were blown in so thick. About 20% of the vase goes down the drain because of the plethora of cuts, saw blade .060 wide and it wastes a lot of glass. No idea what brand this vase is. All I can say it was one fine work of art and made out of the finest glass. Weighed 8 pounds so no cost was spared in glass volume. Colors unfamiliar in glass work. The base was confetti'ed and is an inch thick. It too will be chopped up to yield lip glass stock. This vase should be good for about 45 life size lips depending on how big the lips are. (big mouth's need more glass, Alison seems to talk a lot he he) Funny man. I love these colors. Nice avatar  |
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Post by fernwood on May 19, 2018 9:32:42 GMT -5
I have a thought on the lips I received. Know how to make a perfect necklace from them, just unable to find the key component. The caps used for bear claw pendants. Remember seeing them somewhere recently, by accident. Now cannot find them. Could make them once I get a mini torch for metal work.
Will be trying out my glass drilling technique today. Will post how it worked.
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Post by jamesp on May 19, 2018 9:43:51 GMT -5
I'm yo huckleberry MsAli. Tumble shaped glass from no telling where. Due to more attentive flat lap work and better melt domes most glass is only shaped with SiC 500 in the rotary for 2 days. The SiC 500 flat out removes glass when lubricated with red clay. Over removal a problem. If I were to start making money on these pendants I would go spend $5000 of the revenue(would be nice) each with 3 blowers. A Chinese group of blowers and the 2 local blowers with detailed blowing instructions. $5000 would buy 20 - @ $250EA of the China made vases. Not gonna happen w/my present budget. But that glass is el supremo. Out of the smallest rotary this morning in coarse(coarse being only SiC 500) after 2 days and ready for vibe:   |
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Post by fernwood on May 19, 2018 9:45:55 GMT -5
Amazing results. You have nailed this.
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