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phprM4AhNPM.jpg php8fP3nhPM.jpg Well I have a great deal of cane to play with BUT have to go to my dear son's Grad ( at 31 he is now a full time Deep Massage Therapist) so this is super for a young man that broke so many bones being a prof. Big Mountian Skier! jumping off cliffs and doing twists an...

Off to the saw

Here is my new cane as well that I got up at 7:00 AM to slice abit off to take to Hot Shop. Now to slice up the rest. yeah!

HAD a wonderful day with a good friend Ryan Bavin at Bavin Glassworks in Invermere, B.c. We added some stringers to outside of the canes and now will have to be patient until the canes are out tomorrow as I left them alittle thicker . Looked so lovely though hot.

phppUIlIMPM.jpg I also forgot to mention that I scraped off all the outer edge even though it looked really clean from the mold so that when I pick it up out of the pick up kiln at the hot shop it will be super clean and ready to just slice and fuse with . I actually always grind each and every sli...

Hopefully this will show better. And in the bowl you will see on the side a sliced cane I drop pulled in my large kiln. Just makes it interesting I think

Hope I can answer all the questions. I wrapped each rod with reactive stringers first , and a few of them had 2 layers of stringers wrapped around them. Then I put into the mold , and filled with fine frit of varying layers. The glass rods and stringers that stuck up from the mold and slumped over a...

Well although I am happy with how the pieces came out, I will look forward to going to hot shop and pulling and twisting the sliced large pieces. I DO look forward to the colour bar though to have some really interesting pieces and slices to work with.

Here is the new 'Glacier Striations" Colour Bar at 1270 Deg. F. and now will have to wait for a few days until I can take it out. It is 2" 2/3rd " thick and 19 inchs long and will get lots of slices from this piece.

Well I am firing the next kiln cast glass colour bar for the Glacial Striation Series. All reactive glass and the large cane that I am taking to the hot shop is out and so excited to slice up before I go to Bavin Glassworks.

No actually, it slumped lovely, just abit off kilter , and after grinding top edge it looks really even now BUT will still carve out the Black Alabaster so it sits abit sideways as I love that. I can never seem to do something that is perfect . Love asymmetrical ! P.S. the large cane came out of kil...

phpktriO7PM.jpg Well sometimes you have to get a burn just to try to get the photo!!! :-k [-( #-o :roll: but this is a bad pic but at 1278 it had just started to move and yes it headed down hill. BUT at the end ( which would have melted my camera if I tried again, ) it actually did crawl back and m...

Oh my!!! no idea. Hmmm! 1/2 inch thick and 20 inch wide and 10 inch deep. :roll: phptCi9kjAM (1).jpg phplsucdTPM.jpg But am having fun experimenting again with a large 15 inch x 5 inch thick cane that I will then take to the hot shop and pull out into a 1 inch cane. BUT funny , I forgot to make the ...

P1000891_resized.jpg I almost forgot to post the polished edge. I live in such a wonderful community where we all help each other and Bavin Glassworks ( Ryan Bavin) gave me hand with his great equipment. Now I just have to find a Black Alabaster ( Gypsum) up at our local quarry . I have some really...

Oh Marty, that gave me a great chuckle. Nice vessel Shawn !!! Les

Still have lots of grinding to do on the edge to straighten and refine but do like the shape for the size of the piece. Now off to the polishing /grinding

One more day to wait with all the patience I can muster up for the vessel, but took this out of kiln today and the back side is really nice. Matched up with a few of my twins flame worked beads that have owls on them. Love working with her so much. NOW if I could just figure out how to turn the pict...

It is a ring of MM6 that I painted on the inside of the metal round dam , and then place on out side of mold to help with thermal shocking the edge as it is a large disc of glass and side elements . I just wanted to be very careful. It did not touch the glass, just sat there being a frame protector ...