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I got a panel done last night. I think its a fun piece. The front flashed strips can be slid out of their rails and repositioned to make different combinations. Plus if the owner drops and breaks one, I get more work out of the deal. Its going in a bathroom. Most of it is Lambert's and St Just flash...

rosanna gusler wrote:um, whats a hanging? rosanna

You try to rustle some of my glass, and I'll show you what a glass hangin is, Partner.

db wrote: I wouldn't stop there. Compressed air is a wonderful asset to the shop. Buy the biggest compressor your wife will let you. Pipe the air everywhere your wife will let you. Get air gadgets.

If you have a husband rather than a wife, then it would be easier.

If all you are going to do is airbrush with it, you can go to Home Depot or Sears and buy their smallest compressor for $100... but as soon as you start talking about sandblasting, you need to consider a number of other factors like what do you want to do with the sandblasting... For "general ...

Hi everyone, I just had the grand opening of my Web site last week and thought I'd share it with the most discriminating eyes of all. Looking forward to hearing your expert opinions -- any and all comments, suggestions, Qs welcome. Thanks, Alice Summa http://www.pamadesigns.com My initial impressio...

clip I love creating work, but I can only continue to create if I sell it. clip Thats a self-imposed constraint. To think that you should be able to protect the use of a type of joinery, so that it can be associated with your 'style', rubs me wrong in a number of ways. First it over-emphasises the ...

whatever it is i bet it is the same thing that happens when you try to fuse/slump on whiting (calcium carb i think) at those temps. don't you wish you had paid more attention in basic chem. ?????? i do. rosanna I use powdered whiting on my kiln shelves for work up to 1385°. I don't recall ever hav...

on the elmers,,,,when getting rid of the carbon, is there a point where you can hold the temp, before the frit fuses, where all the carbon will be burned off,,,,is it necessary to open the lid in order to solve this problem thanks rodney I heard somewhere that 1000 degrees is a good place to soak.

Does Michaels also have a compressor on sale? Could be kind of frustrating for someone to get home with their $40 airbrush and wonder what to hook the tube up to.

Liam wrote:Check out my new web site on how to build a glass fritting machine.

http://www.stainedglass.dns2go.com/fritter/

Liam

Great tutorial Liam. Needs a *.wav file with a recording of the fritter in action, with some Germanic music in the background.

Catharine Newell wrote:William...

William Carlson has a granite and glass piece in the Renwick Gallery called Pragnanz (I see in my 'Skilled Work' book). Lot of work.

Brock wrote:If anyone wishes to see above, go to http://www.ranamok.com

The bar has been raised.

Brock

Really outstanding stuff. By and large the artist statements aren't too annoying either. Most of them.

Jim Randall's 'detour'....Is that really granite and glass coldworked together? what a lot of work!

Hi-- I've just started using an airbrush to apply enamels and traditional glass stainer paints. I'm wondering what sort of cleaning solvent people use after doing this. My airbrush is a mess! Thanks, Jennifer Paint thinner for lusters. Water and soap to clean up after paints and stains mixed gum ar...

clip If you're short on studio space, it'll just make you drool, but if you're in my (happy happy) shoes, give it a look-see. :D Sounds good. I just ordered it from the downtown library. Thanks. We've been planning an addition to the house that will include shop space for five years. Architect, con...

Alice DeGraff wrote:

Kitty wrote:Alice -- LOL! no, not painted.

soooo embarssing but glad to have given you a good laugh!

Why embarrassed? It looks just like paint to me. I assumed it was enamel sprayed-on, or at least sifted. Of course having similar preconceptions to mine might be cause for embrrassment.

...clip "oh a little, but glassblowing is takes much more skill" clip Geri clip The gallery rep said to me, "Fused glass takes a lot less skill to make than blown glass." :shock: clip Neither glassblowing or warmglass craft require much skill. Neither require anything more than ...

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So, the consensus seems to be that I CAN airbrush enamels if I've got them fine enough to kill my lungs! Hmmm! I also have an older airbrush that handles mica powders and kiln wash as Bert described, and it does it quite well, but I haven't had any luck getting 80 mesh enamels to go through. I sent...

Only a very fine powder in a well prepared medium in a very thin suspension will go through an airbrush. I'll offer a flat no to your first question, to what I call frit. Although some of the things I spray, I also call enamel. For discussion on mediums, search the archives for the word 'miscable'. ...

Tony Smith wrote:I had sent this design concept to Brad earlier today...

Elegant low tech solution. Could do a cool three-table-one-lid variation by having the axle on a gear that traversed notched hills.