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- Sat Apr 19, 2003 10:13 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Soldering Jump Rings
- Replies: 14
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Judy - Until I read the last post, I missed the part about the jump rings being silver PLATED. I thought they were solid sterling. If you decide to rouge buff them, be super-careful or you could buff the plating away. Is there a reason you're not using sterling jump rings? They really aren't that ex...
- Sat Apr 19, 2003 9:45 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Soldering Jump Rings
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15487
Good question, Judy! I forget that not everyone is part jeweler on this board sometimes. LOL. You can buy them from a jewelry supply place. They're in the current Rio Tools catalog on p. 398-399. I'd try both the white and yellow buffs...not sure which will do better for you for that application. Yo...
- Sat Apr 19, 2003 9:22 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Soldering Jump Rings
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15487
Yep! If you have a Dremel or Flexshaft, use a tiny muslin buff with a little bit of rouge on it to touch them up. The solder joint is probably going to show, though. Silver jump rings are meant to be silver-soldered with a torch and silver solder. Silver-soldering those puppies without breaking the ...
- Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:56 pm
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: Shipping and Insurance Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22232
- Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:49 pm
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: What do you know about applying for public art projects?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9374
Somehow I got on the list for mailings to artists for public art projects for the City of San Jose, where I live. Every few months or so, I get a mailing from them with a call for a proposals. I didn't apply to be on this list and I don't know how I got on it, except that once I met a city councilma...
- Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:41 pm
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: Has anyone ever dumped their stained glass inventory?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15308
- Thu Apr 17, 2003 2:50 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Technique Ownership - A Question of Ethics
- Replies: 183
- Views: 176823
An Observation
Although I don't know everyone who has responded to this thread so far, I have noticed something interesting about those I do know... I'm making some broad generalizations here...but here goes... Generally, it seems that the trend so far is that folks who have a "day job" and don't make th...
- Thu Apr 17, 2003 12:54 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: white outline
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7004
- Thu Apr 17, 2003 1:05 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Technique Ownership - A Question of Ethics
- Replies: 183
- Views: 176823
Good question, Tony. I think if you learn something in a class, it's fair game for you to use in your own work in your own way. It doesn't make sense to me that anyone would teach you to do something and then not allow you to you it in your own work. LOL. I'm unclear about the teaching aspect of thi...
- Tue Apr 15, 2003 2:08 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Making Itty Bitty Drop Molds?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18811
Hey, Carla!
Carla! Good to see you here! Thinking about your question....when I was a kid, my mom had these "mini-muffin" tins that had openings that were really small...don't know how small, though. Anyway, if you could find one of those in stainless at a restaurant supply place, maybe you could use ...
- Mon Apr 14, 2003 8:02 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: bubble problems
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8750
Squeeze technique
To minimize the bubbles in your glass, you need to use the squeeze technique...I believe it's called that because glass blowers started doing something they call "squeezing" glass to remove the bubbles. I think Gil Reynolds coined this term in an article he wrote for Spectrum about the pro...
- Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:53 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: What temp can you take your fused glass out of kiln?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25992
[ Hi Geri, That was actually what I was questioning. I didn't think glass could retain stress unless it was introduced at annealing. Maybe the delay in breaking, in your case, was that it was still cooling hours later. Was it thick? Or am I wrong about the residual stress thing? Els Both of the pie...
- Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:00 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: What temp can you take your fused glass out of kiln?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25992
- Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:38 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Tumbling Kiln wash from cabs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9325
I agree with Linda. If you soak cabs for about 15 minutes in Limeaway, the stuck kiln wash usually will fall right off. I slosh cabs around several times during the soak to aid in this process. No scrubbing is required most of the time. Good luck! Geri geri, is limeaway something available at my lo...
- Thu Apr 10, 2003 7:44 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Tumbling Kiln wash from cabs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9325
- Thu Apr 10, 2003 7:35 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: What temp can you take your fused glass out of kiln?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 25992
The best idea is to let it cool to room temp before removing it. In a pinch, I've wrapped it in several layers of heavy duty towels at about 115 and it was fine. Once when I first started fusing I took a piece out when it was too hot. That night about 3AM, it exploded into hudreds of little pieces. ...
- Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:08 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: BEWARE of where you purchase a kiln
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12088
Hi Camero - You've gotten some good information so far about the wait time on kilns... I hope this story about my last kiln purchasing experience makes you feel better about your wait. Some years ago I ordered a large custom kiln. The owner of the shop that was building it for me promised to have it...
- Sun Mar 30, 2003 2:51 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: glass table tops and safety concerns...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 32281
This is a good question. Recently in my metals class, a woman approached me about a glass table top her son had. It was a float glass table top on a metal base. He put a hot pan directly on it one night. He heard that noise of glass starting to stress and break that we all know so well, but because ...
- Sat Mar 22, 2003 3:54 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: repair for formed lamps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6674
- Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:34 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: My hands are killing me.....
- Replies: 22
- Views: 30650