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Hi all, Just looking for suggestions for saws that can cut thick (~1 inch) color pattern bars. I have a gemini taurus II ring saw, which is just not up to the job. I've heard talk about a new, not insanely expensive saw out that can cut bars, but having trouble finding info about it. Any suggestion...

Could it be cast in a centrifuge with oxides poured onto the melt in the crucible which on casting would swirl oxides onto surface of finished cast ( talk about throwing the cat amongst the pigeons) It could be, but I'm betting it wasn't. My guess is B (patinaed, some sort of oxide). C (cast colore...

Jerry's answer is the right one. To convert C rate to F rate, multiply by 1.8 (or multiply by 9/5) To convert F rate to C rate, divide by 1.8 (or multiply by 5/9) Rate of 100 C = 100 * 1.8 = Rate of 180 F Rate of 100 F = 100 / 1.8 = Rate of 55.5 F (As you realize, the calculator on the Handmade Glas...

Brock wrote:Well gee Brad, how to kill a possibly interesting thread.

Might have been boring and repetitive, too.

Of course, Chihuly's working in plastic now, so all this glass stuff is passe.

I guess I'll have to start working on "Contemporary Warm Plastic."

Here's Littleton on what it means: MR. LITTLETON: Well, the misinterpretation of this phrase "technique is cheap." All I meant by that is that technique is available to everybody, that you can read the technique, if you have any background. Technique in and of itself is nothing. But techni...

It requires 16 weeks of intensive, full-time training just to sew first quality work consistently, then several more years to really do it well. And some people can never learn. Of course that doesn't make a pair of pantyhose a work of art, does it? Okay Brad, I just gots ta know!!!! How do you kno...

We're definitely in agreement on that point, Paul. Some of the best works of art were done quickly and with little apparent technique, while works that were slaved over for hours and hours aren't necessarily worthwhile. (The opposite holds true also, by the way.) As for the kiln-forming vs. glassblo...

Well, I think Don Burt is being disingenuous. The logical extension of this belief is that there is no such thing as skill. Anyone who's ever mastered any activity that for them was initially difficult—and that includes everybody—would argue otherwise. Both fused glass and glassblowing require ...

For both this website and for warmglass.org, I have used a host named OLM for about the last two years. All things considered, I am satisfied with their service (they're the third host I've used, and by far the best of the three). For small websites, they are quite reasonable (around $10/month for v...

Here's the passage: Neither glassblowing or warmglass craft require much skill. Neither require anything more than equipment, rudimentary demonstration, and a bit of safety instruction, to execute the craft successfully. Playing piano requires no skill either. One presses the keys down with one's fi...

rosanna gusler wrote:there was a good thread about this about 3 weeks ago

http://www.warmglass.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2034

I'm not aware of any book on coldworking, although there are a couple of books on beveling that have some good info (both out of print now, of course). I have heard that Ed Schmid, who has written a couple of glassblowing books, is working on book called "Coldworking Made Tolerable". He li...

I'm not familiar with the product Rio Grande carries, but there are a number of small table top blasters that cost under $200 and would remove dichroic or do similar jobs to relatively small amounts of surface area. You might check out pencil blasters, such as the ones that Centre de Verre carries: ...

Unethical answers are never best. :lol: The issue is one of public education. If you were a potter, then no one would assume that you made the clay. I generally explain what I do in the context of making ceramics. Most people have an idea of what that is, and can easily related to the idea of using ...

Black sharpies don't always burn off, either. (Although they do most of the time.)

My rule is that they burn off when you don't want them to and don't burn off when you want them to.

For starters, you need to make certain that you're using a shortwave uv lamp, not something else. There are several different bulbs that are labelled uv -- you need one that is at 254 nm. If you have that type bulb, then check the Old Archive for lots on how to use it. Here's one thread: http://www....

Evidently, all over Irag, the streets are delineated with depleted Uranium shell casings. Why, if it's depleted, is it so dangerous? It's a misnomer. When enriched uranium is separted from natural uranium in order to make fuel for a nuclear reactor, the byproduct (i.e., what can't be used in the re...

A lot of these old items are galvanized steel, which gives off toxic zinc fumes if heated in a kiln, so be careful heating unfamiliar metals.

Eyewear for me was the perfect example. Sunglasses = spots and headaches. Welders shades = too dark when the piece was at the bench. Didymium = headaches. Auralens Aur99 = no spots, no headaches, can see the piece AND read the heat. The first three were all suggested and used by various teachers I ...

Bullseye's fine frit is 0.2 to 1.2 mm. That's around 20 mesh, which is larger than any of the sifters that Schlaifer's carries (by the way, most of what they carry is made by Thompson Enamel). Bullseye powder is around 80 mesh, so you can use any of the 80 mesh sifters to sift the powder. (These wor...