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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 8, 2018 16:35:49 GMT -5
I have always liked the Grey elephant the most and the last pictures you posted are wonderful
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 7, 2018 23:54:53 GMT -5
I am burnishing for an hour They will polish without it But it helps
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 7, 2018 19:02:18 GMT -5
A sponge with water would work well.
another possibility . . . When I go to the bank, the tellers have a something waxy in a small flat can that they rub their fingers in to get a better grip on my money.
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 7, 2018 18:54:19 GMT -5
I never saw the back of it
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 7, 2018 16:37:30 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that deburring refers to taking off the sharp edges after cutting metal or glass
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 7, 2018 8:54:34 GMT -5
I'm a Stagehand You can't offend me
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 7, 2018 8:38:25 GMT -5
This stuff is certainly hard like Chert
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 7, 2018 0:48:55 GMT -5
I joined the Rock Club here in Huntsville and now I have a key to a room with at least 8 saws at no additional cost.
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 5, 2018 13:19:37 GMT -5
Whenever I find crushed granite here in North Alabama, black rocks can also be found. The material apparently runs in veins through the granite. The granite does not tumble very well but this glassy black rock does very well. I guess it is Black Granite? I've been collecting it everywhere I go and finally had enough to run through to the polish stage. Here is what it looks like before tumbling Here is some at the top of the colander during a cleanout in Stage 1 Here is the whole batch fresh out of the 6 pound tumbler. Not the greatest of shine on these, one of the rocks lost a large chip out of it and is probably why these ended up with just a high sheen A closeup of the best looking ones
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 4, 2018 19:16:12 GMT -5
I haven't commented here but I follow this thread closely. Don't know anything about rock carving but this interests me a lot. How exactly are you carving these stones ?
And your place on the mountain, How could it get any better than that?
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 4, 2018 17:04:27 GMT -5
Oh Yeah ... plenty of grit in there, but it's not building a slurry like I'm used to when spinning rocks. I added some thickener to the 6 pound barrel a week ago but it was still a watery mix when I took a peek in there today.
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 4, 2018 16:14:58 GMT -5
The colored glass has been rolling in a 6 pound barrel for 6 days and the clear Fresnel lens has been rolling in a 3 pound barrel for 4 days. I'm thinking that I had too much water in with the colored glass since it only has slightly rounded edges, so the water was reduced a bit and it was placed back on the tumbler without cleanout for another week. Of course that glass may be harder than the more common glass that I've been tumbling in the past. The clear glass in the smaller tumbler seems to have rounded nicely for being in there just a few days. That barrel did not have a lot of water in it so that may be why it rounded so aggressively. It was also placed back on to roll for another week without a cleanout. Not encountering any gas buildup at all with this glass.
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Post by Wooferhound on Feb 3, 2018 15:05:16 GMT -5
Now-a-days, any public gathering is a target. I work in the entertainment business and am constantly working in large crowds. Am always making escape plans in these situations. If close enough I would even consider taking on the person causing the problem.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 30, 2018 12:32:35 GMT -5
Ha woofer, tumbling glass in the rotary is el cheapo tumble. Use your clean out pan to catch and re-use the SiC. The glass hardly breaks the SiC. I do crush the bulk down to about 30 to 80 grit size. Throw your little trash pieces of glass in with the rest too, makes cool polished frit pieces. Oh yeah, almost didn't put any grit in there, but I recover all grit in my cleanout sink so nothing gets away until powdered. And yes again that every single crumb of glass went into that barrel.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 30, 2018 12:27:15 GMT -5
Hmmm, those colors would make pretty cabs. I’m thinking earrings. Is it safe to say if something can be tumbled, it can be cabbed? Glass is soft, like jamesp suggests that you don't even really need to use grit to tumble it.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 30, 2018 11:36:56 GMT -5
Thanks for the peek behind the curtain Woof. I've always wondered about it too - are you working off any kind of a script or does the show guy feed you cues the whole time? Usually the person that Calls the ques, travels with the show and also operates one of the spotlights at the same time. They execute the ques that are the most important or complicated while calling out ques for the other spots. We have a meeting before the first show to talk about the hardest ques and the style that they use to call out the ques. Spots have a number, colors have a Frame number, Targets have a name or stage position or a description of the clothing. During the first performance the ques can be very detailed, after we do it once it is much easier and less difficult as each show goes by. All the instructions are given to all the spots and then executed an a GO call. During times when spotlights aren't needed, we tell jokes and make fun of the show.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 29, 2018 18:23:15 GMT -5
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 29, 2018 15:13:45 GMT -5
Sunday is normally cleanout day but 4000 people needed me that day so cleanouts occured a day late today. Abandoned the rocks that were rolling and decided to roll the 4 colors of theater glass that are now available. Placed the Roundels in a One Gallon freezer bag and hammers a chisle at them trying to make 1 or 2 inch pieces. They filled a 6 pound barrel really good so it's all running. Used raw Ungraded SiC and some slurry thickiner. Also busted up a clear parabolic fresnel lens but there was not enough room to add it this time.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 29, 2018 3:48:41 GMT -5
While we are here let me teach you how to run a spotlight and show you my Main Job at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville Alabama, a large complex with Ice Hockey, 2000 Concert Hall, 360 seat theater and about 10 Exhibit/Dinner spaces. Last week we did 5 sold out performances of The Sound of Music, 2 hour 45 minutes with intermission in the Concert Hall. Barely enough time to log onto the forum. I was operating a spotlight and doing equipment maintenance before the show. Here are some pictures I made on the 4th show. Here is the spotlight I was operating. it is about 7 feet long and 150 pounds without the base. It is a 2000 watt high pressure xenon bulb in there and makes the color of Sunlight. In this picture the spotlight is reversed 180 degrees from normal so I could get good lighting. Here it is positioned normally, all the way back and at the top of the balcony, in a small booth all to myself. There are 2 more booths like it so there are 3 spotlights total. I sit in the stool very close to the light because I need to see through the Telrad (spotsight) so I can be aligned to the target before bring up my intensity. I wear the headset and communicate to a person that tours with the show and gives me detailed instructions about the Target, Intensity, Fade Time, Color and Size. I like to have handy snacks for my short breaks where intensity is Zero. During the show all lights are off except the stage. This is what I see in the Telrad, it is a small Heads-Up display so I can precisely line up on the target before fading the light on. Here are all the controls... Far Right top- Telrad Bottom black handle- controls max beam size, used to make wide flood lighting Six levers- the six available colors. Different colors for each show, can be usd in combination, not glass but an Acetate Top left three levers- most used, Iris or beam size, Intensity or brightness, Chopper cuts of the top an bottom of the beam Big Knob on Bottom- Focus or sharpness Bottom left- Tilt resistance, under that is Pan resistance, better seen in other pictures I Aim the light by holding onto the U shaped bracket at the very front of the fixture. At the front I have a lot of leverage and fine control. I have a piece of my polished Quartz taped onto the spot where I grip the bracket because I've heard that quartz has a calming energy and I need all the help I can get because in Broadway a mistake is a Big Deal So now you are ready to do spotlight for the next show
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 29, 2018 2:10:54 GMT -5
Not wanting to make money but trying not to lose any. I messaged both of you and talked to MrP on the phone minutes before spotlighting another performance of Sound of Music.
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