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by Carol Cohen
Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:23 pm
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: The piece that haunts me.... (pic)
Replies: 2
Views: 4643

Re: The piece that haunts me.... (pic)

So, why not try to make more pieces like that? You go girl!

Carol
by Carol Cohen
Wed Dec 23, 2015 12:52 pm
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?
Replies: 6
Views: 8579

Re: What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?

Arnold, I'm confused! If I turn off the kiln for a few seconds, does that stop the radiation of electromagnetic energy? I read somewhere that the energy still is being produced by the hot coils. Not?

Carol
by Carol Cohen
Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:46 pm
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?
Replies: 6
Views: 8579

Re: What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?

Me again -- I phoned the Medtronic Co. which makes the pacemaker. They looked it up and said they recommended staying at least 24 inches away from the kiln. But if I get nearer (which I have to do, to look into peepholes to judge slumpingness), the pacemaker will be affected but will re-set itself w...
by Carol Cohen
Tue Dec 22, 2015 2:10 pm
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?
Replies: 6
Views: 8579

Re: What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?

I did call Ron (Shapiro) at Digitry up in Maine, got sent to an answering machine, and haven't heard back. He's probably on Xmas vacation. Hmmm.... maybe I should try to call his bro-in-law Andy Magdanz, here in Cambridge. Whatever I find out, I'll post on warmglass.com - we're all getting older (wh...
by Carol Cohen
Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:19 pm
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?
Replies: 6
Views: 8579

What's latest word on kiln use & pacemakers?

Hello, fellow slumpers; I've been away for a long time, just doing my work. But now I need your help and advice. A few months ago a cardiac pacemaker was implanted in me and while I'd love to get back to using my big kiln for slumping glass, I'm afraid! I am afraid of somehow messing up my little co...
by Carol Cohen
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:33 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: "Collectors' Discount"
Replies: 30
Views: 58658

Bert (and others)-- when I showed at Heller (I now do private commissions and don't show in commercial galleries), they never asked me to share a collector's discount; they assumed the whole burden of any discounts. In fact, once they misquoted a price to a collector (lower than the real price I had...
by Carol Cohen
Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:16 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: Patent Pending
Replies: 27
Views: 28222

Cynthia, You created a beautiful metaphor. I wish it were so. But here's a quote by STGlasgow from an earlier thread: "I have filed for a patent on the technique I use to get the hundreds of little holes along the edges of the glass. There is actually another patent already issued that does a s...
by Carol Cohen
Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:28 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: Patent Pending
Replies: 27
Views: 28222

Guys'n'gals-- want to get holes faster & closer together than drills produce? Here's a time-honored technique: heat up flatglass until it is quite soft, then use one of these tools: pounce wheel: <http://www.pcrailroad.org/Tools/PounceWheel.htm> roweled spur: <http://www.cowboycabin.com/item8266...
by Carol Cohen
Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:07 am
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: Applying for a Pilchuk Scholarship
Replies: 51
Views: 44615

Bert, were you there the year some guy demonstrated glassblowing in the nude?
by Carol Cohen
Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:32 am
Forum: Kiln Casting
Topic: Drilling holes in glass
Replies: 16
Views: 18086

Warm water??! You think I use warm water? I just suffer, and change clothes later. There you are in tropical Salt Springs and here I am where the low temp tomorrow night will be maybe 6 degrees. (Actually, I try to schedule my drilling for warmer months and my kiln use for colder, but it never works...
by Carol Cohen
Mon Jan 05, 2004 4:38 pm
Forum: Kiln Casting
Topic: Drilling holes in glass
Replies: 16
Views: 18086

Amy, when I found myself involved in a similar obsessive-compulsive behavior project, I bought a cheap (Woodworker's Warehouse) drill press, then got in touch with Starlite Industries (http://www.starliteindustries.com) and bought a water-feeding attachment for it. Then I could order their diamond h...
by Carol Cohen
Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:13 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: Patent Pending
Replies: 27
Views: 28222

Glassaddict, there are lots and lots of glass artists who sew pieces of glass together to create their artworks. What the "patent pending" artist is trying to do, is to control a very specific way of making the little holes in the glass (for the wire or cord or whatever, to pass through). ...
by Carol Cohen
Wed Jun 11, 2003 1:22 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: "Crafter"?!?#@$*&(*#&%!
Replies: 38
Views: 42122

Aw, shucks (blush) -- thanks, Amy & Bert!

Carol
by Carol Cohen
Tue Jun 10, 2003 1:00 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: Insurance for international shipping?
Replies: 16
Views: 16450

Insurance for international shipping?

I'll be shipping a large glass piece (87 seoarate sheets of painted glass up to 4 ft. long) to Europe and started phoning around locally (Boston) to find out how to insure its replacement value, which is about $10K. Have been told, We don't do that, We won't do that, Get it professionally appraised ...
by Carol Cohen
Mon Jun 09, 2003 12:59 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: "Crafter"?!?#@$*&(*#&%!
Replies: 38
Views: 42122

Cynthia's paraphrase

Actually, in my website it says "I started within fine arts and found myself involuntarily shifted sideways into a crafts label because of my material." Thanks, Cynthia Oliver, for perceiving my work as "art" which is how I perceive it myself. The labeling of it as "craft&qu...
by Carol Cohen
Mon Jun 02, 2003 12:09 pm
Forum: Business Topics
Topic: Artists Bio
Replies: 17
Views: 19356

A good place to look over lots of glass artists' websites is <http://www.contempglass.org/linkartists.html> This is a large national collectors' group and there is a page of links to glass artists' own websites. If you're goodlooking, do put a nice photo of yourself, in your site. I with great discr...
by Carol Cohen
Thu Mar 27, 2003 6:40 pm
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: Scorched fiberboard - what'd I do wrong?
Replies: 0
Views: 13763

Scorched fiberboard - what'd I do wrong?

Okay, you guys have talked me through the kiln retrofit shelf height problem in a different thread, and THANK YOU a whole lot -- I moved everything up higher in the kiln, found a big piece of 1" fiberboard to put on top of the brick columns and shelves, to make a space only 5" high, and th...
by Carol Cohen
Wed Mar 26, 2003 6:29 pm
Forum: Techniques and Tools
Topic: Distance from top elements to glass?
Replies: 7
Views: 11575

Distance from top elements to glass?

I've just had my big side-element kiln retrofit with ceiling elements, so it can be used as a top-broiler, so to speak. I'm using it to slump lots of small pieces of glass, on corrugated stainless steel sheet. Question: how close can I safely place the glass to the top elements? 6"? 4"? I'...