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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2020 20:44:13 GMT -5
I just asked here about that. She thinks I am going to blow her away. Not like her. She is by far the most confident one under this roof. She says I shape mine better than hers and the lapidary folks would choose mine for that reason. Well, I have been posting OUR glass for a long time and I must say the viewers seem to favor her's over mine. I think you would enable her confidence levels and she would mow me down. Me thinks if you turned her loose on this hobby she would smoke a lot of people. She has a great eye and a talent There is a lot of fine glass stock for her to work with MsAli. I can take care of the complications of the kiln. After that there is little to hold her back. I hope she dives in head first. If we were to make some income the glass blower could be paid to make a variety of base stock specifically for her to complete her compositions with. It requires the guy to make glass with denser patterns and colors for smaller scale jewelry fusing. |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2020 20:47:22 GMT -5
Not sure which I like more, hers or yours, Jim. Bricks and blobs can't be compared too closely, being 2 different processes. Hers don't need sawing or shaping though  There is a broad range of glass. Most artists have a signature. Lol, our stuff is all over the place. We avoided education. Trying not to be influenced by others EricD. |
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Post by Pat on Feb 27, 2020 20:47:37 GMT -5
That’s the prettiest pile of “blobs” I’ve ever seen!
Kudos to your wife. 😀
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2020 20:56:50 GMT -5
They sure look like they were given individual care and attention. Very nicely done. Perfect complement to your creations. Denise is exhausted after composing her stuff. I think she stretches her mind in designing her patterns. She buys the much richer colored US glass to do her pendants. This is helping us to get an introduction to working with some very different glass. The big stock of import glass allows bolder and much costlier projects like brick melting. And I am still picking up scraps from the glass blowers. I bet we haven't touched 2% of that stock. I need to build a large sifting table to sort and separate it by size. Then by color. This takes a lot of water which is here on the farm. |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2020 20:58:29 GMT -5
Thanks miket amygduleIt is a cool pastime. She has another large stash that is her favorites. She just finished drilling them. They should be show stoppers. |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2020 21:04:06 GMT -5
Thanks Chuck. The new EBAY 35,000 rpm/$65 'dental' machine may solve the messy holes Chuck. Just tried it today with some cheapo longer 2mm shaft diamond bits that wobble a bit. so process would be: Tumble to polish first. Then drill hole, then do a quicky follow up with a bevel bit makes a nice enough final hole. The 8000 rpm drill press does the bevel operation in 2 seconds at a lower 2000 rpm. So there will be 2 drilling machines running on a mini production line. One for hole, one for bevel. The worst holes are the tumble chipped holes. The vibe chips the sharp hole shoulders in a bad way. Holes in tougher agates don't chip so bad, but the holes in glass chips so easily. Even when the biggest tumble is under 15 grams the holes chip in the vibe. Target weight for pendants is 13 to 21 grams. I will bet that if you do a quick bevel before tumble it will not chip.....................MrP Never did think of that trick Michael. It is the exposed 90 degree edges that chip. Recessing them and beveling the edge should prevent chipping. Easy to try. Running this stuff constantly recently. It is the vibe that does the chipping go figure. Not a problem in the rotary. |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2020 21:11:18 GMT -5
Holy crap! Glass heaven! Everything Ali and everyone else said. Awesomeness! jamesp have you ever thought about throwing them in some dry polish in the vibe after you drill the holes? I throw all my stones in Vibra Dry 50K after I hand polish my cabs. A half hour or an hour, or whenever I remember to take them out and they are even better than when I put them in. Vibra Dry wouldn't chip the glass.
Thanks Robin. I will relay your compliments to Denise. She keeps threatening to join the RTH. She stays on Facebook too much to tinker here. I'd have to start being honest ! I never followed thru on many dry tumbles. I have heard the Vibra Dry is the way to go. Ill have to get on the stick and try it. Do you get the Vibra Dry at Diamond Pacific ? |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 27, 2020 21:17:09 GMT -5
That’s the prettiest pile of “blobs” I’ve ever seen! Kudos to your wife. 😀 She really has little experience melting glass Pat. I want to see how she progresses. She has been using a different glass. We don't have that much color variety in it. A lot of her patterns are heavily influenced by the quality of the hand blown glass. There several 1000 pounds of it. We need to spend some time sorting thru it to get the better material. I don't think she has opened the door to her real skills. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 27, 2020 21:55:28 GMT -5
Thanks Robin. I will relay your compliments to Denise. She keeps threatening to join the RTH. She stays on Facebook too much to tinker here. I'd have to start being honest ! I never followed thru on many dry tumbles. I have heard the Vibra Dry is the way to go. Ill have to get on the stick and try it. Do you get the Vibra Dry at Diamond Pacific ? Yes, Diamond Pacific makes it. They make lots of different grit sizes. I just use the 50K in a reloading tumbler for my cabs. They are already polished.
I'm just wondering if the glass around the holes will smooth out just in the 50K. I have some of the glass you sent with holes and I'll throw one in there tomorrow and let it go for a while and report back my findings. (Duh! Why didn't I think of that until just now?)  |
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Post by fernwood on Feb 28, 2020 0:50:43 GMT -5
Those are some mighty fine blobs. I like the small pieces of Milfori on some of them.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 28, 2020 7:34:28 GMT -5
Those are some mighty fine blobs. I like the small pieces of Milfori on some of them. The milifori's practically all failed fernwood. About all of the ones we purchased cracked the blob. Still trying to find compatible milifori. It was a problem, gotta have them in the arsenal. Getting a lot of pretty stock of any type of glass to melt into each other for composing without cracking is a fortunate situation. |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 28, 2020 7:41:59 GMT -5
Thanks Robin. I will relay your compliments to Denise. She keeps threatening to join the RTH. She stays on Facebook too much to tinker here. I'd have to start being honest ! I never followed thru on many dry tumbles. I have heard the Vibra Dry is the way to go. Ill have to get on the stick and try it. Do you get the Vibra Dry at Diamond Pacific ? Yes, Diamond Pacific makes it. They make lots of different grit sizes. I just use the 50K in a reloading tumbler for my cabs. They are already polished. I'm just wondering if the glass around the holes will smooth out just in the 50K. I have some of the glass you sent with holes and I'll throw one in there tomorrow and let it go for a while and report back my findings. (Duh! Why didn't I think of that until just now?) Awesome Robin. That would be so helpful to know. So you do the dry tumble in a rotary ? It is the vibe that likes to chip the glass worst. Glass loves chipping and frosting. Famous for it. We found that drilling holes in the rough shaped cabs with 100 grit grind marks causes way more breakage as opposed to fuse polished and tumble polished glass. Scratches in glass create fracture propagation. Polished glass can be over 1000 times stronger than scratched glass go figure. The same principle a glass cutter takes advantage of. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 28, 2020 8:05:11 GMT -5
jamesp, it's a vibe tumbler. Bought it a gazillion years ago to tumble metal for jewelry with steel shot. Many years later, when Don from Diamond Pacific was at our show he was doing a demo of the Vibra Dry. I talked to him about it for a while and bought some. It works great for taking tarnish off metal, too. I talked to him a couple of years later and he told me about polishing stones in it, so I tried it. Worked a treat.
I'll put a piece of glass in there this morning.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 28, 2020 10:08:06 GMT -5
jamesp, it's a vibe tumbler. Bought it a gazillion years ago to tumble metal for jewelry with steel shot. Many years later, when Don from Diamond Pacific was at our show he was doing a demo of the Vibra Dry. I talked to him about it for a while and bought some. It works great for taking tarnish off metal, too. I talked to him a couple of years later and he told me about polishing stones in it, so I tried it. Worked a treat. I'll put a piece of glass in there this morning.
It took a while to figure out how much media was required to run the glass in the vibe. Mine holds 8 pounds. I have tumbled up to 6 pounds of pendant glass with only 2 pounds of media. To be safe and get a better polish I raised it to 3 to 4 pounds media with 5 to 4 pounds of glass pendants. Point being, I have done a bit of dry tumbling but I seem to remember you could only run small amounts of target material ? Is this correct ? What size is your vibe and how many pounds of cabs can you run in it in a dry tumble is you don't mind me asking ? |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 28, 2020 10:53:24 GMT -5
Cool beans Jim...Your wife has the same ideas you do.... Is that scary or not!
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 28, 2020 11:10:39 GMT -5
Holy Glass, man! You two are a dynamic duo!
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Post by jamesp on Feb 28, 2020 13:46:08 GMT -5
Cool beans Jim...Your wife has the same ideas you do.... Is that scary or not! She may stay on the conservative line a bit better Michael. I cast all the bricks, they are the more psychedelic patterns. Having lots of rich color variability is the fun part of glass. |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 28, 2020 13:49:18 GMT -5
Holy Glass, man! You two are a dynamic duo! But what if we get into a fiery argument lol ? So far so good. Each one has the freedom to do what they want so it should go well. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 28, 2020 13:59:54 GMT -5
Holy Glass, man! You two are a dynamic duo! But what if we get into a fiery argument lol ? So far so good. Each one has the freedom to do what they want so it should go well. Just don't go throwing any hot glass. Bad, very bad. I have the scars to prove it... |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 28, 2020 14:24:34 GMT -5
But what if we get into a fiery argument lol ? So far so good. Each one has the freedom to do what they want so it should go well. Just don't go throwing any hot glass. Bad, very bad. I have the scars to prove it... That would be assault with deadly force Tela !! Ya'll play hard. |
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