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Thanks all! Yup, I was pretty far off... So now I need to compare the price of an 8 x 10 piece of glass (one of the common sizes sold) to the price I paid per pound. Is this math right, then? Price for 8" x 10" piece / .89 = Price per pound for that 8" x 10" piece - Algebraically...

I just made a healthy fusible glass purchase from my local retailer. I like my retailer - good people, good information, lots of fun when I go there and I *think* very good prices. But I'd like help with my comparison-shopping math. This retailer sells glass by the pound, but most of the on-line ret...

Don't know abouit the kiln brick and elements, but I just got off the phone with my husband the ex-electrical engineer. He was a reliability engineer for a defense contractor in his previous life and he used to test electronic components. He said (in many words) not to worry about low temperatures i...

Brock wrote:Not necessarily. If you're making a small piece, no problem.

If you're making a large expensive labour intensive piece . . . .

. . . it'll leave a mark. Brock

Sharpie's Law?

- Bev

Replace your kiln goddess... she ain't pulling her weight. You know...my *neighbor* asked me about my kiln goddess. Which is odd considering my neighbor is a public health policy professor. Perhaps his wife - an ex-fiber artist - had a Loom Goddess. Do these god and goddesses come to you or do you ...

How about instead of the usual paint or enamels, you have them glue on stringers and frit? You could also pre-cut some shapes for them. For 4 year olds, I'd grind off sharp edges before I gave it to them. You could pre-fire some "globs" for them to attach to the tiles, too. Or you could go...

ok, thanks brian. that makes sense. it does look like it is devit, only in the inside. a milky pale greenish semitransparent sort of color. anyhow i broke up the rest and binned it last night. rosanna It sounds like it might be kind of interesting. A different look, perhaps? Do you have pictures yo...

Tony Serviente wrote:I've found that etch cream is not useful for either BE or SP or any other glass put in a kiln. Doesn't remove enough material.

In my experience, BE laughs at etching cream. Have you or anyone else tried HIS Glasswork's VariEtch?

- Bev

And if someone said to me you have to go back to advertising, I fear I might become violent. For Father's Day this year I bought my husband a copy of the movie "Office Space." I suggest you rent that or even buy it if ever, EVER you feel like going back to cubicle land! My husband's midli...

Liam wrote:Ya, plaster can crack, but make an original negative, and make a thousand plaster molds off of it. and no kiln wash to wory about.
Liam

Do you mean an original positive? And what would you make the original out of?

- Bev

I went to the glasscolor.com site. They have photosensitive glass. But how do you use it? Dianne There are instructions: http://www.glasscolor.com/catalog/colors/gaffer080Inst.asp In 25 words or less, you keep it in the dark, work it (and presumably anneal it,) put it in the dark until you're ready...

Thanks Mike and Bev I'll keep looking Mike, I've seen the wasser stars on ebay recently. Bev, I've thought about trying the rods if I can't soon get my hands on some of the dots. They were roughly 4 or 5mm with the thickness of a dime. I found it difficult to keep an even thickness in my home-made ...

I don't know how big the Wasser dots were because I've never used them. But if you want to make your own "dots" you can use BE rods and snip them into roughly 1/8 inch sections with a tile nipper. Just be sure you do that inside a box of some sort or you'll never find the dots after they'r...

....Vogue, ...anything else that isn't too embarrassing. Vogue isn't embarrassing? I suppose it would be good for keeping up with current design trends. Yeah. That's it. I can't convince myself to get it, though. I have a phobia of teenage magazine shop clerks and their rolling eyes... I do subscri...

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- Bev

[quote="Tony Smith Hope this helps Tony[/quote] It absolutely does help. Thank you! I now understand how all of the pieces - compressor, blaster and cabinet and dust collection - work together. And I kind of thought my husband's air compressor wasn't going to do the job. Oh well, at least he an...

Hi Kate, Take a look at the Bench Buddy from TPTools at http://www.tptools.com. It's a siphon blaster and works well for small pieces. Tony I'm thinking about sandblasting equipment too, so I'm following these threads. But I'm getting confused and I'm going to drag everyone else down with me, by go...

...Maybe visit a print shop to get some ideas of whats possible (don't inhale!) Ahh...you get used to it. If not, downright addicted to it. Then after a while, you can't smell *any* solvents of *any* sort and you know it's time to get out of the printing biz and into kilnformed glass. - Lithogirl

I was wondering if this thread would get off the ground! I'm one of the people in the crowd, not an artist...yet. My husband and I just attended a show this weekend in fact and we try not to be one of *those* customers. And my husband - being a quiet, introspective sort - seems to overhear more than...

Very nice. I nosed around the rest of your site as well.

Hmm...next weekend trip without the kids might have to include a jaunt from Augusta, Hermann, and up 79 through Clarksville.

I'll call it "The Missouri Wine/Glass Tour."

Hey...I think I may be on to something here.

Bev