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Tony Smith wrote: would someone be kind enough to explain the significance of the Pilchuck auction?

Tony

Tony, it is the only auction I've ever attended where a bidder paid $100,000 over value for a piece.

(No, Jackie, my pockets don't go to THOSE depths!)

- Lani

The bad news (for you) is . . . I've got tons and tons of witnesses now that will swear you said you'll be bidding on my piece. The good news (for you) is you can probably get it for around 75 cents, because I've yet to see someone with nerve enough to bid against you. :lol: See you soon- Jackie Oo...

Whoa, Jackie! I've been away too long! The work is just getting amazinger all the time! PS. If Pilchuck doesn't take the work for the auction, would you let us start an auction for it here on the board? If they DO take it, you can bet I'll be there waving my bidder's card! (With Dan, as usual, glari...

Have fun in Scotland! Another Steve for you to enjoy- how fun! Jackie, Not only a Steve (Klein), but also a Catharine (Newell). We'll all be on the High Road to North Lands in the Highlands ... for a class with Kirstie Rea. It's a terrific program: http://www.northlandsglass.com I'll try to take so...

Jackie, Add another "STEVE!" to that cheer... the Doc is one incredible photographer. The pic he took of his son at the gallery during LEGACY (behind an architectural piece) was one of the best I've ever seen for "people and glass"... did you get it? I'll try to get it posted on ...

Fuhrman Glass Studios Inc wrote:Coe's are not always the direct indication that something will work or not work. .

I'm glad that someone besides Bullseye is finally beating this dead horse.

The COE is NOT a reliable indicator of compatibility.

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why newbies keep thinking it is?

-Lani

We all KNEW you'd get it, Catharine! Congratulations, a giant step forward for kiln glass. Thank you!

. And I guess they will be publishing the notes from the conference...so that should be great to have. Carol Carol, Yes, there will be a conference journal… I’m working on it right now…but it will probably take 5-6 months to complete. Figuring out how to document the expressions on the audien...

Thanks to everyone who wrote to tell me - in 50 words or less - why Bullseye should send them to WGW. I'm pleased to announce that we've selected Pat Zmuda as the scholarship recipient. Pat's enthusiasm for the medium, coupled with her ongoing work to make the "connections" between all the...

I have a great hard back coffee table type book of theirs. Wasn't most of their early work done with float glass? This is an interesting historical question. It would be great if Jon could answer it. I've always thought that the Higgins' started enameling/fusing their clear glass before float glass...

Judi Charlson wrote:Question about qualification for art :

If a piece of art is displayed at the Millenium Glass Center during the Warm Glass Conference could it still qualify for entry in the WG@BE3
exhibition on the west coast?

We (at BE) don't have a problem with that. But that call is also up to Brad. - Lani

... Here's my problem. I'm very concerned about having the irid surface in a sink. I have no idea what the long term effects that soaps, solvents, scrubbing, etc is going to have on the irid surface. It is pretty tough, I know, but for what she is going to pay for the sink, I would not want anythin...

Good morning, Catharine!

You say that the piece was 1/4â€

Dear Alice, The new Bullseye Connection Resource Center is (will be) on the East side of the Willamette River (that’s pronounced Will am’ ette, if you ever get here and don’t want native eyes to roll upwards), right next door to the Bullseye Glass factory. It’s in a light industrial neighbor...

Amy just reminded me about our third Warm Glass at Bullseye competition/exhibition. Sorry, been over-involved with BECon and should have posted this info sooner: The WG@BE3 exhibition is being timed to coincide with the Grand Opening of Bullseye's new Resource Center East - which, like all good cons...

MICHAEL FOSTER!

....was the guy making his own thin glass about 13 years ago by firing 1/8 inch sheets between two kiln shelves

anyone know him?

...and where was he? Corvallis?

Brock?

Sarah,

If you only want a tack fuse, the size of the frit will also determine how hot you fire. Powder and fine frit will tack at a slightly lower temp than coarse.

Make small tests. Label them. Keep them. Start building yourself a reference library of fired - well labelled - samples.

-L

Brock wrote:Peter Wendl? Brock

Don't think so. Wasn't Peter the guy who flattened his whole studio? In a fire?

I'm dimly recalling that the guy who flattened the sheets was named Michael something....

REAL dimly,
L

There was a thread some time ago about "squeezing" glass thinner by putting a second kiln shelf (possible with weights on top) on top of the fusing and having spacers between the two shelves to set the final width. There was broad disagreement about if it would work or not. Its on my (ver...

... some colors of BE will frost with these etching compounds, and others will only dissolve. ...when i was told this in an email last week from HIS, i was amazed, but after a little thought, i remembered trying the cream stuff on some BE a few years ago, and it did indeed frost some colors and not...