WarmGlass.com

They don't have a website that I know of. Here's the address.

Gabbert Cullet Co.
700 Cherry Steet
Williamstown, WV 26187
phone: 304-375-6435 fax: 304-375-4832

Ron

Molds made from fiber are a little rough but if you keep slumping temps on the low side ~1150f they don't mark the glass.



Ron

A review about the CD

http://www.cgs.org.uk/magazine/article.php?artid=107

Ron

The manual for the controller

http://www.skutt.com/support/op-man.html

Ron

Silk screen printing is a good way to print on glass. You can use your computer to make the image and make a silk screen to apply glass paints. Some pictures of how I do it. These letters are Chinese but regular letters work too. :wink: http://mrcol.freeyellow.com/screen-printing/ http://www.warmgla...

Thanks Charlie for the info on mixing. I didn't know you could let the wet components sit for that long without it going off. The calcining temperature is the point they heat crushed gypsum rock to make the plaster in the first place. That's the point that all of the bound water is driven off and yo...

I dry the molds for a week, then load them in the kiln. I go slow up to 250, dry 12 hours, then up to 350 for another 12 hours. The molds are pretty big, though - 12" in diameter and about 12" tall. I also hold for about 4 hours at between 800 & 900, to drive out the molecular moistur...

I finished another drip casting today and as I watched the glass flow from the bottom of the crucible (flower pot) I was wondering if there is a "best" location for the glass stream to enter the mold. This casting is a hollow core vase about 7 inches tall and the glass was entering centere...

I agree that teacher "certification" may not be the solution here. Since there is no independent certifying agency for warmglass instructors, it would be difficult to develop a certification process free of bias toward a specific manufacturer, technique or method. Although, I'm sure a few...

What about influence? If a student's work is clearly influenced by a teacher's work, is that a bad thing? Does the fact that the student is creating similar work dilute the value of the teacher's artwork by creating additional competition? Eventually, I would like to get back to the idea of teachin...

Several years ago, the head of the US patent office made a statement that nothing is new anymore. The chairman of IBM said not too many years ago that there would never be a need for people to have computers in their own homes. These broad statements are from intelligent people who didn't have a cl...

If the information contained in a book or presented in a class is considered intellectual property no one would be able to learn anything. Learning from a book -- and using the knowledge -- is different from copying the book. If the book is "an original work of authorship" then the author...

I think that teaching somebody a technique and then requiring that they don't repeat what you have told them is absurd. They can repeat it all they want in their own work. When someone buys a book they can't copy the book and re-sell it. They can write their own book and sell it -- but there has to...

David Williams wrote:
That's very true. It would be nice to relax once in a while though.

Life in the fast lane. Either lead, follow, or get out of the way.

I've been brushing up on my kiln casting techniques recently and finished a nice cast muller this evening. After a false start with the wrong wax for the model I poured a 50/50 silica and potters plaster mold with fiberglass shorts mixed in for added strength. I found that steaming the wax out is a ...

Ok Greg, take a look around you and what do you see. Cars for example, a few years ago someone added a back seat to a pickup truck and a third door, the next year the competition had the same thing. Then someone added a second door, and another company added a BIG back seat. Someone came out with a ...

Try this one Paul

http://www.panelclip.com/panel.htm

Ron

http://fiberglast.com/
http://www.fiberlay.com/

Depends where you are in the country, Fiberglast is in the east, Fiberlay is in the west.

Fiberglast only has the short fibers (1/4 inch) Fiberlay has longer stuff.

Ron

Try CRLOO, they list it.

http://crloo.com/Products/Sheet_Glass/B ... irids.html

Ron

Check it out at

http://www.hisglassworks.com/pages/varietch.html