jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 30, 2021 21:10:37 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 30, 2021 21:34:59 GMT -5
Oh, sweet! It's been a while since I've seen one of your glass tumbling posts. You're really getting those shapes down. They are positively jewelry quality.
You should do all our new members a favor and link to that long thread you had. I tried to find it and couldn't. Maybe rockpickerforever can find it.
I notice a few coral made it's way in there, too.
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Post by jasoninsd on Oct 30, 2021 21:48:04 GMT -5
James, those are all sweet! I love all the colors, but my favorites are those monochrome pieces in that first "small group" pic.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 30, 2021 21:50:00 GMT -5
It's so good to see some of your beautiful glass tumbles again! That second picture is the Halloween variety. Love it!
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Post by victor1941 on Oct 30, 2021 21:52:54 GMT -5
What a wonderful collection of colors. The glass arrangement at times looks like a kaleidoscope of colors and is just unbelievable.
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Post by Pat on Oct 30, 2021 21:57:22 GMT -5
Truly a feast for the eyes!! Shiny clear color!! What could be better!!
Thanks!
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Post by quartzilla on Oct 30, 2021 22:04:22 GMT -5
Oh, sweet! It's been a while since I've seen one of your glass tumbling posts. You're really getting those shapes down. They are positively jewelry quality.
You should do all our new members a favor and link to that long thread you had. I tried to find it and couldn't. Maybe rockpickerforever can find it.
I notice a few coral made it's way in there, too.
I suspect James has corals in every drawer, his pocket, and on every shelf!
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 30, 2021 22:04:58 GMT -5
Oh, sweet! It's been a while since I've seen one of your glass tumbling posts. You're really getting those shapes down. They are positively jewelry quality.
You should do all our new members a favor and link to that long thread you had. I tried to find it and couldn't. Maybe rockpickerforever can find it.
I notice a few coral made it's way in there, too.
I suspect James has corals in every drawer, his pocket, and on every shelf! Too true. LOL!
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Post by fernwood on Oct 30, 2021 23:27:21 GMT -5
Thanks for posting. jamesp are these from a hile ago, or are you tumbling glass again?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 31, 2021 1:41:52 GMT -5
Oh, sweet! It's been a while since I've seen one of your glass tumbling posts. You're really getting those shapes down. They are positively jewelry quality.
You should do all our new members a favor and link to that long thread you had. I tried to find it and couldn't. Maybe rockpickerforever can find it.
I notice a few coral made it's way in there, too.
James has had several long threads on tumbled glass! Here's just one forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/81817/glass-tumbles
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CLErocks
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Oct 31, 2021 5:47:01 GMT -5
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Post by CLErocks on Oct 31, 2021 5:47:01 GMT -5
Wow! Gorgeous, thanks for sharing!
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Post by RickB on Oct 31, 2021 6:05:57 GMT -5
jamesp don't put that eye candy in a bowl on the front porch (Halloween) tonight.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2021 6:41:59 GMT -5
You guys have good memories. Mine must be in operating condition too. I was afraid I had forgotten my glass tumbling groove. Or that the vintage Vibrasonic was ravaged with old age. I'm not going into detail but I did slip up a bit on this batch. I know what I forgot to do, it won't happen again ! Since no one noticed or said anything I'm not giving details lol. Looking back thru photos I found one of the first vases I dismantled in 2018 for the purpose of tumbling. It is a modern hand blown vase out of China. Forgot the name of the studio that makes these hand blown vases but they are easy to find in thrift shops in Atlanta because they had a distribution center here in Atlanta. Hat's off to Chinese glass blowers, lots of skill. I think I paid $15 for this heavy 9 pound vase. It has a yellow inside base followed with a layer of white over the yellow. Then the colors were added over those layers. Finalized with a layer of clear glass to give depth. The glass is of superb quality. It can even be melted into blobs in the kiln and maintain it's stability. Reduction to tumble sizes using a glass nipper detail after tumble A bit thick for jewelry but could have been thinned in the rotary with little loss of color structure This and other vases in mostly the yellow/green spectrum. Found photos of tumbles. oops these are wet probably out of pre-polish
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2021 6:51:36 GMT -5
Did someone say Halloween ?
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2021 7:33:13 GMT -5
This is Chen early 2018. He and his dear wife own the distributorship of the Chinese vases(still can't remember name of studio). Well he gave me a deal on this one because it was cracked. Along with a few more cracked ones. The vase business was in decline. Now known as just another item on the shelf to keep dusted in our busy new world and being sold off to the thrift industry. Sorry Grandma. Chen's cracked vase lined with green and then a yellow layer let's see what was done with this vase color layer inspection. on the thick side and going to have to get thinned in the rotary about 10 pounds ready for rotary. split down with glass nipper. SHARP It's in here mixed with others ! Rotary stage done. Time to finish. This glass flat polishes to max. above pieces turned upside down. inside of vase. background/base color Made a couple of necklaces for Chen's wife. Gracious folks.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2021 7:41:56 GMT -5
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kyoti
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Oct 31, 2021 13:30:03 GMT -5
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Post by kyoti on Oct 31, 2021 13:30:03 GMT -5
Oh my! I've missed seeing your glass tumbles. They're so beautiful!! Makes me want to try tumbling some glass.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 1, 2021 7:48:18 GMT -5
Oh my! I've missed seeing your glass tumbles. They're so beautiful!! Makes me want to try tumbling some glass. Thanks kyoti. Please do. Less fractures and pits to be concerned with but rocks still rule the tumbling world IMO.
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Nov 1, 2021 18:09:12 GMT -5
Do you use the tile saw to cut the small shapes or just breaking the big stuff to smaller workable chunks? What do you do with the slurry in the water reservoir? I dump my rock debris around my yard but I sure wouldn't want to do that with tiny glass slivers. 😬 Yikes heh.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 3, 2021 5:18:17 GMT -5
Do you use the tile saw to cut the small shapes or just breaking the big stuff to smaller workable chunks? What do you do with the slurry in the water reservoir? I dump my rock debris around my yard but I sure wouldn't want to do that with tiny glass slivers. 😬 Yikes heh. I use glass nippers to cut the glass shapes before tumbling. They split glass from thin to thick vases and bowls in a jiff. Avoid the hammer to avoid fractures. Avoid the tile saw as much as possible due to the labor. I may quarter a vase or bowl to again avoid fractures and to have more control of the nipped shapes. If the glass is a known fusible art glass or hand blown I may melt them into cab shaped blobs. The debris and slurry no longer has any sharp pieces so I do the same, dump in yard/garden. Glass nippers This shard was melted in the kiln to give rounded edges, flatten and create a bit of a cab dome before tumbling. I would melt 50 to 100 at a time. If they get to hot it can mess up the color, to low and the edges can get mis-shaped. That part is tricky. I enjoy the challenge. cut with nippers and ready to put in kiln
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