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The author owns the copyright unless he has given or sold it to the publisher. Regarding the halt in publication of the cd, the question may be whether the artists feel like they own their techniques and whether they agreed to let them be published. So the copyrights may be cloudy on a couple of lev...

As to the fiberglass melting at higher temperatures, that's because they used soda-lime fiberglass. If they had used borosilicate fiberglass it wouldn't have melted.

I don't think many people here use hydroperm. The best thing I can say is you should look at Kervin and Fenton's book on casting to get their recommendations on mixing. They write a bit about hydroperm. I don't think you should need to go to 1400 though. I would go very slowly from 1000 to about 125...

I can't tell if the rim is uneven or the bowl. But in any case, it can be inconsistencies in the glass, uneven heating in your kiln, not exactly level mold, not exactly centered placement of the glass, etc., etc. One thing that often happens with drops is that the center slumps before the rim since ...

If you have to use thinner fiber paper than Tony's using, you can just wrap your glass with the paper, (cut to the right length), then pile sand around the outside. You can also glue the paper to the glass with elmer's if you want it to stay stable while you load it into the kiln.

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Give us the name of the artist and/or a web site where we can see some pictures. Then we can probably answer your question. In general though -- any technique is legitimate for sculpture as long as it serves the purpose, won't self destruct (unless it is supposed to), and is well executed. A lot of ...

I would just make your rings then invest them into the plaster core. You don't want them just 1/8" smaller than the interior of your vase, do you? If it's a solid core nothing should move. You'll have to heat it up very slowly to keep the rings from cracking.

I'm less concerned about yellowing than I am about the epoxy going opaque. It is so thin that I don't think it would be noticeable if it yellowed. Plus, most of my glass is colored anyway. I think using a mix that is formulated for glass repair makes sense. According to John, the longer the curing t...

Nose butter is the stuff you put on sandblasted surfaces to shine them up a little and protect them from finger prints. A lot of people use ArmourAll or stone sealant for this, but they both eventually evaporate off. John Lewis, who does A LOT of glueing, taught us in a Pilchuck class, that you can ...

The laws that protect people when other people are in possession of their property are sometimes called fiduciary laws. Fiduciary means -- involving a confidence or trust; held or holding in trust for another. That describes exactly the situation of consignment. The gallery is holding your work, (wh...

It was wet sand as used in sandcasting (olivine 90 or 100 mesh, 8- 10% bentenite). Zircar is water soluable but I had "fired" the mold back to white when I burned my wax out. I've met some people who don't back it with sand- they hang their mold in a metal support and ladle into it... Hav...

Give me 48 hours to lookat what I am getting into here and I'll get back to you guys. 7:52pm EST Wed Sept 10 j. Jerry, Lachezar has the cd but hadn't gotten his new, (used) computer running yet. So he asked a friend to print out only the most important information. That amounted to 200 pages. Maybe...

A little more info...its a small open face mold...the piece measure about 3 x 2 x .5 inches. With about 1.5 inches of mold thickness all around, top and bottom. Hope that helps a little more. Thanks again, Russ This size piece of glass doesn't need 1.5 inches of mold around it. You could probbably ...

If you're not going to fire it just paint it with heat resistant paint. Easy to find at hardware stores. For use on stove pipe etc. It's not going to get above 800 F is it?

Charlie, I don't understand how rolling the entire lid/hoist assembly would work. Do you have a photo or a link to a place that would help? I have a CM chain hoist. http://www.aceindustries.com/091CMHandCha.htm It hangs from a CM trolley. http://www.aceindustries.com/141CM632Trolley.htm A four chai...

I have a bell and two bases. One base is a table, the other is a nine inch deep kiln with wall elements. I use a manual chain hoist hanging from a trolley that rides on a 4 inch I beam. To hang the I beam I just welded plates across the top to line up with the joists with a hole in each side for bol...

Thin clay slip will definitely work but you may lose too much detail. It seems to me that I've used Murphy's Oil Soap for this. That's what I usually use on my molds but I'm not generally pouring plaster against plaster. I'll have to check my slipcasting book back at my studio.

There are different grades of plaster, some stronger than others. The stronger plasters here are called gypsum cements. Perhaps you could find some of those. There are also castable refractories, which are stronger and more heat resistant still, but they may be too hard for easy removal from the fin...

This week I'll complete a baptismal font (a big bowl) that was designed by an architect for a specific site in a church. And I do a lot of light fixtures. I don't think that really qualifies me as the type of specialist you're asking about though. I took Warren Langley's class at Pilchuck earlier th...

Ted Sawyer recently talked to a class I was in about water burning out of molds. He put a thermocouple into the center of the plaster of a mold and recorded the temperatures of both that thermocouple and the kiln interior. He soaked the kiln at about 225 F (I don't have my notes in front of me.) The...