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Judith I would advise contacting Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. A lawyer will contact her and demand that she stop using your images. Chances are that a simple phone call will stop her from using your images. Going after her beyond getting her to stop, is another issue entirely. Hopefully you won't...

Cynthia I just returned from The Philly Furniture Show. As always the quality of the work being shown there was generally impressive with a few exceptions like 2 shameless Chihuly knock offs (nearly identical pieces by 2 different blowers). The quality of the work is what draws the buyers to the sho...

Hmmmm! Have you put the tin side of the float glass down against the fiber board to act as a rezist. I am sure you are because you have been havinh success up till know, BUT I just thought I would ask anyways. I know of 2 factors, one is temperature. The hotter you go, the more it sticks. The coole...

Yes, for those who asked, there WILL be the famous Bullseye Lehr-B-Que on Saturday night ... chicken and ribs down the 100 ft long annealer in the factory.... more details going up in the social events section soon.-Lani That's great. After all it is a self cleaning oven. At 1000º no grease is lef...

At the risk of being out-Googled, here's what I hope is a simpler explanation. Annealing is the process of slowly and carefully cooling glass so that stress is removed. Tempering is a process of rapidly cooling glass so that stress remains in a specific pattern. One of the characteristics of temper...

Hi All, I'm trying to make pocket vases using float glass. 1/8 inch on the bottom layer and 1/4 on the top. They measure 6x12 with a 1/2 inch fiber blanket in between to form the pocket. I've used 14 guage copper wire to use as hangers. My firing cycle is as follows. 250dph to 750. Hold 10 min. 999...

NOT TOO LONG AGO SOMEONE LISTED A CONTACT FOR A SAMPLE PACK OF FERRO PAINTS/ENAMELS FOR 20.00. I HAVE SEARCHED THE ACHIVES AND CAN'T FIND IT. CAN ANYONE DIRECT ME TO THAT SIGHT? SURE WOULD APPRECIATE IT. CAROLE...... Carole That was $200. 1-800-245-4951 ask for Wanda McDowell. It still costs much l...

quill wrote:

It warps pretty badly at the temps we work at.

It was advertised for use with enamels not fusing, I just wondered if it would work with fusing.

Thompson enamels mature around 1400ºF which is similar to fusing. I wouldn't spend my money on another marinite board.

Phil In the contract world, you can contract for anything. You can stipulate that he owns it or you own it or that you pay him a royalty if you reproduce it in the future or that you own it. Whatever you want to put in that contract. If he wants to own the design that should cost him more. If he doe...

Thanks for everyone's help. Bert, what you've suggested is what I was looking for, a way to color the already tempered panels without going above strain point. I've investigated getting panels tempered after firing enamels and blasting, but no one around here will do it. They say the chances of blo...

I have a prospective customer who wants etched and colored panels for a shower enclosure. I'm wondering about any technical problems that would prevent one from firing paints/stains onto tempered float glass. I'm looking at doing panels using 1/4" or 3/8" float, approximate panel sizes 28...

I just ordered dome stuff from Thompson Enamels & I noticed they had various sizes of 'Marinite Board' for sale. I am not familiar with this & was wondering, is it useful in fusing, say for slumping molds or as a kiln shelf? I'm surprised to hear that Thompson would be selling Marinite. It ...

Those of you that use credit card machines at shows, would you share the options and your choices and why. I have been hearing about monthly fees and/or minimum sales. There seems to be different percentages charged and may have hidden costs. Any help in sorting this out would be appreciated. I onl...

Glenda Give it a try. Start small. It might need to be prefired. It might stick a bit. Most likely it will work with some tweaking. I don't think that any of the prodiucts that we use are directly designed for us with the possible exception of BE kilnwash. I always keep my eyes wide open when I visi...

A design idea I'm working on would involve breaking a fused, 6 mm blank. I want the blank to be broken into 2 pieces, with the break being somewhat, but not totally, random; so smashing the piece isn't an option. I want the edges along the separation to appear organic, not sawn. My thought on accom...

bottle glass is designed to be machine blown into a mold, unmolded, and cooled within a few seconds. if you've ever seen a bottle production plant, you'd see this in action; they turn out thousands of bottles an hour. the glass just doesn't flow well, because it isn't supposed to. you don't want th...

Anyone casting multiples from the same mold? I just had a potter friend make bisqued open face (no undercuts) clay molds for me, so I can cast the same basic shape more than just once. I'll use these basic shaped glass forms in differing ways to make each piece a one of a kind. Anyone have experien...

Jim When Lani refers to the "dumbing down" I believe she is referring, at the core, to the people who buy pattern books and copy them. The fact is that these people buy enough glass to keep stained glass manufacturers in business. Hooray for them. Without them there would be no compatible ...

I don't really have a kiln with enough depth, and, really intend to move in a different direction, but, the pot melt technique is SO interesting. If a person was to use float glass, I would imagine the temp to hold would be a bit higher, and, a longer hold then Randy was using ? (I think he was goi...

In the realm of synopsizing agreement, I think what we want to see is a class that in one way or another inspires it's students to undertake the path of practice. A beginning class needs to give enough science to get them started and enough technique to inspire imaginations. An advanced class is rea...