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- Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:26 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Diamond belts for WBS
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13691
I checked into it a few years ago, and HIS glass carried them then. I decided to stick with the disposable belts as I was leery of the durability and life of the very pricey diamond belts. My belt costs end up being almost negligible, in relation to the value of work they help create. I'd love to kn...
- Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:36 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: shelf height?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3223
In what way have your attempts failed, puddles, dimples, cracks? Raising the shelf will just make the kiln effectively cook hotter for the same temperature readings as when the shelf was low. I don't think it will do anything useful for you, no matter what the problem is. The biggest factor with suc...
- Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:41 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Cutting Spectrum Baroque - total frustration
- Replies: 27
- Views: 32936
I use Baroque extensively, and what I can offer is the observation that when you are doing narrow strips, or any delicate shapes, the biggest problem will be the difference in thickness that occurs where the swirls are. The bigger the difference between thick and thin, the more of a problem it will ...
- Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:27 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Famous Phil!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10196
- Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:24 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Perfect white for fusing( Liquid Paper???) YES
- Replies: 40
- Views: 46295
- Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:56 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Post BMAC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10108
Really enjoyed catching up with you Sara, and meeting you Robin. The quality of work that you both offer is helping put warm glass on a par with the other techniques, among them blowing. When I started doing the shows in '85 kiln work was a barely acknowledged field. Blowers held the top position in...
- Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:30 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Post BMAC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10108
Thanks, and yes, I heard the grumbles too. I sense a kind of shake down happening in the field, and suspect we will see some changes in the number and type of exhibitor in the next few years. BMAC stands for the Buyers Market of American Craft. It is a trade show for people like me to market their w...
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:46 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Post BMAC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10108
If a buyer thinks it can't be glass, but must be plastic, I offer them this : Purchase my work, and then drop it from a height of 4 feet onto a concrete floor. If the item does not break I will cheerfully refund the purchase price. So far, no takers on my offer. Compared to last year, the stores and...
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:25 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Stainless Steel mold ???????
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3460
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:38 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: motors
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10166
Hi Marty-Sorry you didn't walk Philly. Before you do anything else, see if you can borrow a gear puller from a mechanic, or you can buy one from an auto parts store for less than $20. They are easy, controlled and safe. I once spent too much time trying to get a stuck pulley off a shaft, using every...
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:32 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Post BMAC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10108
Post BMAC
Was a pleasure to meet some other WG posters at the BMAC in Philly this past weekend. We're working hard to raise the awareness of warm glass in the American Craft community, and I think we are making inroads. The buying public is looking at kiln work with increased respect, and greater understandin...
- Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:08 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: flat lap questions
- Replies: 40
- Views: 41477
- Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:49 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: helP asaP
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9695
A few weeks ago I took a few 6 x 6 squares of float, and liberally sprinkled them with Spectrum frit, and went up to fuse. Not only are they still whole, but the polarized view shows no stress. I am under no illusions that the COE is the same, but since the frit are tiny pieces of glass, they will e...
- Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:43 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: have new evenheat GTS 2541 and am experiencing BIG BUBBLES
- Replies: 18
- Views: 21488
I'm also a thinkin that when I soaked at 1285, my kiln was probably more than likely firing at around 3000, which would explain the devit. Pam-When you soak at 1285, assuming your thermocouple is accurate and well placed, you really are at 1285. Not sure what you mean by your kiln was firing at 3K(...
- Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:05 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: flat lap questions
- Replies: 40
- Views: 41477
- Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:13 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: have new evenheat GTS 2541 and am experiencing BIG BUBBLES
- Replies: 18
- Views: 21488
Sounds like you are figuring it out Pam. The more mass in a kiln, the slower it will heat, so the shelves may be the culprit, but it could also be the ratio of wattage to cubic footage, as well as the kilns insulation. I would not worry about the shelves heating unevenly, as they all do to varying d...
- Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:24 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: BMAC anyone?
- Replies: 2
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- Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:15 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: have new evenheat GTS 2541 and am experiencing BIG BUBBLES
- Replies: 18
- Views: 21488
Pam-I'm reluctant to believe that your shelves are warping, only because I regularly go from 1000 to target afap, with no bubble problems. While I accept the reasoning behind going slow around 11-1200, I get good results without doing that. I am guessing it is overfiring. You said it was a new kiln....
- Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:22 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: BMAC anyone?
- Replies: 2
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BMAC anyone?
I'll be at the Buyers Market in a week, booth 4402. Any other warm glass folks going to be there? Always good to meet the people behind the text.
- Tue Feb 03, 2004 4:30 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Firepolishing, tack fuse and anneal - multitasking
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4773
Just a few weeks ago I healed a piece, and added a decorative edge at the same time, so you can do a few things at once, just all depends on the situation. I often try to do a few processes at once, especially with the thicker pieces, just to avoid as many heat ups as I can, since that is the danger...