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As per using your name and other people name without permission, this is illegal. I have seen many web pages of glass people who give the long list of all the worshops they attended with instructor name and, if it gives a free advertising to the instructor, it should not be written without his/her ...

What other controls were in place for this? Do we know that pressure, nozzel size, distance of nozzel from glass, etc. were all the same?

Most epoxies will work with an accelerated cure by using an elevated temperature... they just don't advertise it. Loctite is an industrial epoxy where the users are concerned about acheiving maximum strength consistently, so they make this information available. Tony So does the elevated temp just ...

Does anyone know if this is a Locktite specific technique (the oven thing) or does it work with other epoxy?

I think I remember someone posting something about a glue technique for metal to glass that involved using an oven to cure the piece...but I can't remember.

Does anyone remember this?

Thanks,
Paul

Any chance you can post a picture -- or at least describe the breaks?

Did it break the same places the second time as the first?

Okay, I'm one of the guilty non-responders. Too much going on. Instructions for mine are: 1) Take Bob's powder wafer class 2) do it smaller with more stencils 3) swear a lot when stencil #3 messes up the powder from stencils #1 and #2 4) repeat step #3 ad naseum 5) join a conspiracy before you have ...

db wrote:I don't have a glastar footpedal, but my footpedal requires at least 60lbs pressure to close properly; considerably more than what I charge my pressure pot with.

Thanks - that did it.

I have a Glastar pressure pot with the foot pedal.

Whenever I step on the foot pedal it stays "on"

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul

Is there such a thing as a custom grinder head (for Glastar type grinders) or is it (reasonably) possible to make your own?

I need one that grinds 45 deg angles on small pieces. Do bevelers have a mechanism to get a relatively true and specific angle?

Thanks,
Paul

When I set up my glass studio as a business one of the things I was most concerned about was the shear liability of selling something made of glass. Given the litegious nature of our society these days and the shear number of ambulence chasing lawyers out there, I was, and still am concerned about ...

There are ancient cave paintings that depict the sillouettes of hands on the walls. They date back thousands of years. The airbrush was ones mouth filled with pigment. The pigment perhaps wasn't mica tinted with titanium oxide, but some other natural substance. Dyeing or coloring objects is as old ...

I'll add this to the mix:

I don't believe the distinction between "technique" and "design" is always so absolute. That goes for "style" too.

- Paul

Belief that it has all been done before is, in my opinion, the end of progress.

It is also a good excuse not to take the risks of trying to do something new.

- Paul

Ellen, exactly! Go to the glass museums on Murano or in Duesseldorf and look at what was done in kilnformed glass (even if much of it wasn’t compatible) decades and centuries ago… gape and be humbled. Spending time worrying about owning a technique keeps us from moving forward. In most cases we...

If the information contained in a book or presented in a class is considered intellectual property no one would be able to learn anything. Learning from a book -- and using the knowledge -- is different from copying the book. If the book is "an original work of authorship" then the author...

I wouldn't even know where or how to begin teaching "creative process". I cannot image what a class in creative process would look like. Maybe more important -- for me at least -- is that I take great pleasure in the glacial speed that my own creative process is evolving. Barbara and Bert ...

I know that kiln ventilation systems are promoted as speeding ceramic firings.

Does the greater evenity they provide allow faster cooling with glass?

- Paul

I think that teaching somebody a technique and then requiring that they don't repeat what you have told them is absurd. They can repeat it all they want in their own work. When someone buys a book they can't copy the book and re-sell it. They can write their own book and sell it -- but there has to...

To protect a glass paver one would need a patent.

Art can be -- and often is -- copywrited. Copywrites protect the form of expression.

- Paul