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Brad - Much as I prefer the old board format, I think that you should do what's best/easiest for you. You devote countless hours to this endeavor and have made a huge difference in the warm glass community with your efforts. You're the one who has the most invested in terms of time and effort for ma...

This is in response to Ron's comments. Ron, you expressed perfectly the reason why I haven't been looking at the board as much since the format changed. The thread format really helped me see more easily what I wanted to read and respond to. This format is more challenging for me for some reason. Ot...

LOL. Yeah, for Hxtal it would be a bazillion dollars...and that's the point. Anyone who's spending a bazillion on hxtal is a wholesale customer. Rodney, here's another suggestion. I'm not sure what kind of glue you're using...fuser's glue? I don't know what that is because I don't use glue unless I ...

Charlie - Let me try to clarify this from a business perspective. "In quantity" means more than 10 pounds of glue. It means that when you buy from them you buy alot of stuff in large quantities. For example, when I buy glass from my supplier (wholesale), I spend about $1200 on 30+ sheets. ...

I'd like to go back to the old board format, but have it split into topics like the current one is. Here's why. I use a very old Mac and a decrepit version of NetScape. We aren't going to buy a new computer soon and we can't upgrade to a new version of NetScape because that would require our upgradi...

Judith - I'm sorry to hear that something so blatent has happened to you and hope you can resolve it quickly. I would hope that your business ethics class also addresses the subject of people copying other people's work. This is a big problem for many of us who do shows. Someone sees our designs and...

Sandpiper - In answer to your question, BE stands for Bullseye (as in the company that is one of the sponsors of this board). LOL. I forget that not everyone knows the abbreviations that some of us use. Their shelves are made in Europe (please correct me if I'm wrong, Lani) from some material other ...

There is a ton of information in the old archives about the causes of bubbles from kiln shelves. There are remedies, such as using fiber paper, etc. I bought some new shelves last year from BE and haven't had a bubble since. It was definitely worth the expense...I've saved more than what I paid for ...

To answer your questions... The color was a greenish color (kind of like a Tiffany green patina, but on glass instead of metal). The glass was a coblat blue that kind of looks like lapis. The patina doesn't smell, as far as I can tell, but it's about 75-80 years old so I'd guess any smell would have...

I recently purchased some small glass cabochons made in Czechloslovakia in the 1920's. They are basically flat-backed mini-sculptures with some substance in another color applied to them like a patina to accentuate the relief in the glass. I set a couple of them in sterling settings I'd fabricated a...

Jeri - I buy my plates tands from Aftosa. They are pricey for plastic, but work well. I HAVE had pieces blow over in fairly strong winds when in these stands. I put large plexi risers behind my work to cut down on winds and haven't had anything blow over outdoors when it was protected by the risers....

I'm not sure how you're making your small cabs, but I find it takes more time grinding, etc. to make tiny ones (6-9mm) than it does to make larger ones. I sell my cabs, but I reserve these tiny ones for my own work because I couldn't charge enough for them to make it worth my while to make them in q...

Whew! Thanks for the warning. LOL. I have a hard enough time trying to teach customers to say dichroic...let's see, at my show today, they called it "dichromic", "dicrylic", "dicromatic", and "dicrotic" glass, among other things. If they ask, I tell them how i...

LOL. I tried to make my own sterling sheet...once. I cast a rectangular ingot from scrap and rolled it, for what seemed like days, in hand-cranked rolling mill. It was porous because I had also melted in pieces with a bit of solder on them. What a mess! I eventually just sent it to my metals recycle...

LOL. I obviously need remedial instruction in the "Quote" feature, as well. Sorry, I quoted me instead of you! Next time I'll know which tag goes where, I hope. LOL.

Geri

I don't know if there is a good way to rate teachers... for that matter, I don't know that "certified" teachers are any better... They can still become certified if they complete the material even though they may be lousy communicators... Tony LOL. I wasn't trying to talk you out of a cer...

Lani McGregor wrote: Tony, I've seen rave reviews for really bad classes (full of technical misinformation, but "fun"). How does the beginning student know what they're not getting? Tony wrote: I have to agree with Lani here. Especially if the student isn't asked for a review, how do futur...

Hi Carla -

More layers of glass, or thicker glass may help with it dropping further. More layers of glass implies that you need to fuse it first. Thicker glass means that maybe a thicker float glass would work.

Geri

From my perspective, this seems like a non-issue. In my opinion, you should show the work you have currently and introduce new work as you make it. You don't owe anyone an explanation about what you've been doing the last three years...whether you were sick, just non-productive, doing something else...

Split rings are an option.

I used to make pieces with split rings and found that they caught on my clothes and snagged them all the time. So I finally learned to solder jump rings. LOL.

Geri