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Post by jamesp on Oct 2, 2018 7:52:02 GMT -5
Caution, wear sunglasses. Mostly trims and saw up brick ends. some shaped prior to tumbling. About all self fused glass sawn out of 10 to 13 pound cast glass bricks. ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1949/44994086572_14ddefb19b_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1959/30106610447_160a549b4e_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1903/44994114152_12c4361c2b_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1931/44322796764_58d878383c_b.jpg) The whole batch in sun light ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1915/44994122702_9c40bf11c1_b.jpg)
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Post by Pat on Oct 2, 2018 9:34:18 GMT -5
Wow! Again! That looks like fun just to handle them.
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Post by MsAli on Oct 2, 2018 10:26:44 GMT -5
Love all the different shapes you are getting
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 2, 2018 10:35:03 GMT -5
Caution, wear sunglasses. Mostly trims and saw up brick ends. some shaped prior to tumbling. About all self fused glass sawn out of 10 to 13 pound cast glass bricks. ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1949/44994086572_14ddefb19b_b.jpg)
Love all the colors and shapes. You could market the glass sticks as swizzle sticks!
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Post by fernwood on Oct 2, 2018 14:51:16 GMT -5
A very impressive post.
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Post by orrum on Oct 2, 2018 15:19:07 GMT -5
Very good Jim!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 2, 2018 21:00:26 GMT -5
Great colorfest! I see a couple of excellent pair of lips in there, too.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2018 20:54:51 GMT -5
Most of those are sawn out 6" X 2" slabs that are quite thick at 5/16" to 3/8" thick. If the slabs are sawn into near typical cab shapes and then tumbled hard to half the slab thickness say 3/16" thick or a bit less you end up with real nice pendant shapes. Seems like a waste to remove so much material. But the heavy removal of material from the heavy tumbling makes perfect symmetrical shapes and the silhouette looks individually hand shaped. This was found out by accident. Most of the slabs are sold full size to arrowhead makers. But some are pulled and sawn to pendant shapes for tumbling. This is a portion of the slab inventory. Most are still in brick form to be sawn as needed. Must be about 2 dozen brick ends not pictured. These ends are ready to be tumbling fodder too. ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1945/44366452344_59ed199f63_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1935/30149584877_8fa318ac70_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1917/30149576587_8713cfc002_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1918/44175497145_fc91c83126_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1979/44175485795_215ef54463_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1945/44366388724_498ea49969_b.jpg) ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1962/44366386044_37b96fa34a_b.jpg)
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2018 20:59:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the compliments. I have a lot of fun messin with the glass and tumbling it.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2018 21:08:23 GMT -5
It does blow my mind to see what the arrowhead makers make out of the slabs. Gary Yoeman showing some fine flaking skills on this blade. He will haft this to a handle to make a full size knife. Slabs sawn on a coarse diamond blade and the colors are heavily hazed. ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1978/31213887078_d72baf328f_c.jpg) Remove the sawn faces by flaking or tumble polishing and the colors really come alive. ![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1944/31213886008_0e0ff0a953_b.jpg)
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Post by toiv0 on Oct 3, 2018 21:55:18 GMT -5
I don't know if there is such a thing as too much fun ... but maybe you might have found it
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Post by saxplayer on Oct 3, 2018 22:24:57 GMT -5
So Jim, Are you now focusing your work more on the glass bricks to cut for arrowhead / knife / knapping? How much overall product do you have now all told? I have to assume a lot ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by TheRock on Oct 4, 2018 1:56:00 GMT -5
Boy those sure are purdy!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 8, 2018 6:18:58 GMT -5
So Jim, Are you now focusing your work more on the glass bricks to cut for arrowhead / knife / knapping? How much overall product do you have now all told? I have to assume a lot ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Thanks for inquiring saxplayer. Me bad about tooting my horn ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) . Last week I cast 6 - 10 to 13 pound bricks. A big week. I may have about 1/3 of those left. They get gone fast. Probably 500 pounds of bricks with 100 pounds left in 8 weeks ? Something like that. Maybe over 100 points in trade. $3000 income in 8 weeks. And lots of tumbled stock both finished and unfinished. It has been lucrative. But of key importance is the education in deco glass brick casting techniques. It is not a common practice. This is important because the patterns created by brick casting are unique and there is almost no competition. Add the capability of tumble shaping/polishing glass in mass and the jewelry market may be a profitable route someday. The jewelry market is so competitive. A big problem. No ideas on cracking that egg. Arrowhead slab sales has slowed way down in past 2 weeks. I believe the knappers are all deer hunting or they are fully stocked. A couple of new glass artists have arrived on the arrowhead scene but it is the brick patterns that set me apart from them. It is certainly possible they are taking some of my sales. I post all my techniques on a popular glass fusing group on Facebook and on the arrowhead group. No secrets here. I am content selling enough to pay hobby expenses and trading for those arrowheads.
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