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Our standard definition of an "expert" is anyone more than twenty five miles from home with a briefcase. Pete VanderLaan

well, the tyranny of the majority can be pretty ugly. I invite you to refer to the philosophy of Alexander Melamid and his paintings based on polled individuals regarding what they want to see in their artwork. They want it blue, with a family picnicing by a lake with a moose or deer nearby. They li...

The nominating process is such that there is a committee of the board which considers candidates for the board. The candidates are nominated by the general membership as well as by board members themselves. In the last round of nominations, there were I believe seventeen candidates for three positio...

Well in point of fact, Kirstie from Australia is a kilnformer, our vice president, Anna Boothe is a kilnformer. There are two flameworkers, four university educators, three hot glass blowers, two fundraising types and three that mix and match. I nominated Brad and it is coming up again later in the ...

well Lani, I simply said you don't see "much" gold glass in the fusing arena which I still think is true but it's OK to point out that Bullseye has gold glasses ( you are so sensitive). I am speculating here but a strong possiblility for the strength of the cad/sel density may well be the ...

opal glasses made with cryolite ( sodium alumina hexafluoride) are packed with crystals . The crystals are either aluminum fluoride or calcium fluoride in thier makeup. There are other types of molecules known as colloidals which simply means big molecules in long strings, and they appear like cryst...

opaque reds are not really colors that are happy being made outside of a furnace environment. Transparant reds are much less of a problem. In either glass, the balance of cadmium, sulphur and selenium is critical and goes hand in hand with the furnace atmosphere, On the silicon tetrahedron oxygen an...