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- Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:06 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Silver Lining
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17539
As someone else mentioned, insulation. It only takes a day to insulate and it will improve your work environment for years! And it is something that if you don't do at the start it's pretty much never going to happen because when again are you going to have access to all the walls? Bathroom. Last th...
- Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:07 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Frustrating Day with Tile Saw
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5277
- Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:37 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Thanks for the warning Barbara (Muth)!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15027
A little off topic
Recently I was at a seminar where members of various local arts organizations were brainstorming and generally trying to figure out what it would take to improve the local arts scene. One person really lamented Americas undervalue of art and culture. He was very sad that the great civilizations of h...
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:23 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: TO HEAT OR NOT TO HEAT...THAT IS THE QUESTION
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2924
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:21 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: what happened to my dollar bill
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5943
Maybe you should embrace your result and do an installation of 100 of those. If you were trying to make that bubble you wouldn't be able to do it :wink: I think that burnt money has much more meaning and metaphore than just a buck sandwiched in glass. Plus, even if you succede in altering the glass ...
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:04 am
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: Steaming wax out of moulds
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22513
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:57 am
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: Testing metal for use as a mold
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8971
- Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:37 pm
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: Pot Melting
- Replies: 27
- Views: 43945
- Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:53 am
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: recycling moldmix6?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8761
For burn out I just go outside and use a roofing torch/big bushy torch and torch. the wax melts and is absorded into the shell so the shell looks wet brown then sooty black then you need to get it to have some heat color in it as charlie was saying (red) this burns of the soot and hence it is white ...
- Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:11 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Fire retardant for combing jacket
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12213
- Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:17 pm
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: recycling moldmix6?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8761
As to reusing after a firing, I would expect it to change states and have crystalobites (sp?) but you might contact the manufacturer. As to your usage, I packed it around a few objects and let it dry and looked at what it came out as. what do you mean by packed around? I have only used it by brushin...
- Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:08 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Eating Silica? German anyone?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29471
- Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:24 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: pyrex compatibility
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3368
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:32 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Basement Studio
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19760
Nature's radon detector
A house with a healthy spider population has no radon problems.
Another good source for ventilation fans is http://www.McMaster-carr.com
Check for mold too.
Another good source for ventilation fans is http://www.McMaster-carr.com
Check for mold too.
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:23 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: 1 inch fuse
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9488
What size are the tiles? What kind of glass? so you are holding at 960 for 40 minutes and then dropping to 800 in less than an hour. I know a lot of casters skimp on the soak (the 960 hold) but that 1hour drop to 800 seems kinda short. without knowing what kinda glass, I would go 4hours from 960 to ...
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:50 am
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: How much do you pay a woman for...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5166
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:47 am
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: more casting mold questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13817
Dennis, That sounds pretty interesting. With the hulls, I wonder how it would work if you tried a slumping a thick sheet in the same situation instead of full fusing cullet. Experimenting w/ the thickness of the sheet could allow you to overcome whatever thinning that occured in the stretching. Than...
- Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:04 pm
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: more casting mold questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13817
Wow Dennis, are you saying that you kiln cast those starfish in a brass mold? I would expect a product like that to be made by pulling a little ladle of glass out of a furnace and filling a graphite or metal mold. Then empty the mold when stiff and box it. But you are saying that you load the brass ...
- Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:01 pm
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: How much do you pay a woman for...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5166
How much do you pay a woman for...
Well now that you are looking: I have an artist who would like me to kilncast some 14" greenbeans for her. I want to drop off the ready waxes with an excellent local caster (the woman in the subject message) and then get the rough pieces of glass from her and do the finish work myself. Do you h...
- Sun Feb 01, 2004 2:54 pm
- Forum: Kiln Casting
- Topic: more casting mold questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13817