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Brian sezs:

With the diomond wheels now this is not a problem

Would you elaborate on this please?

ellen

I was wondering what the general consensus is concerning the technique of sandblasting a piece, in my case the outside of a bowl, and then spraying it with a clear acrylic to bring it back up to a fire polish look. Is that considered a legitimate technique to do to a piece and then put it out for sa...

The conventional wisdom in the flat glass biz is that if you can feel the scratch with your fingernail then it can't be removed without creating a 'lens' effect in the glass. If you can't feel it then you might try buffing it out as John suggested. I personally don't think the glue approach will wor...

It was actually insured through the shipper, but insured in his name so he had to make the claim. He did pay me for replacing the panels before he got paid however which was really nice. Flat glass should be shipped on edge (I figure you might know this already but just in case). It is stronger and ...

We have occassion to ship our architectural glass. We use a professional packer who specializes in fragile goods. I don't know how he does it, but all our shipments are insured. Doesn't make it any easier or quicker to file a claim, but the one time stuff broke, they did pay up. The only times we ha...

This is very pertinent to me as well. I am considering on applying to three shows for 2004, and assuming I get accepted in one or more, will only do one. I am reluctant to do shows for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is it would be a total start up thing for me with all the expense that...

No, not the same. The web site has way more artists. You can only get in the print catalog (which they mail out) if you do production work, all very artistic stuff. I think maybe the minimum pieces available is 10 in order to qualify. They have to be able to generate a certain amount of money per pa...

Thanks Paul. Now if I could only get the collectors to notice...

You do very good work yourself.

E

Say Marty...is there a formula for this famousity? The closest we can get is near-famous.

e

re guild sourcebooks...We have advertised in them 7 times in all starting with book 4 and ending with 16. I have not received a single job as a direct result as far as I know. But then, I'm not very good at marketing and, as I understand it, you have to 'work' it, like anything else. I did benefit f...

Depends on what you are casting, what style your piece is. If your relief has a lot of small elements in it and you are trying to put specific colors in specific places, larger frit sizes don't work well. I use #1 mostly. Sometimes I mix it with #2 for the bulk of the casting (the glass for the bowl...

Another good book is 'Kilnforming' by Keith Cummings.

ellen

Be sure and let us know how your experiment goes. I thought of trying the same thing myself on several occasions. Just haven't gotton around to it yet. I don't know which Daum bowl you saw but if it was colored design on a clear bowl then the flowers are probably glued on. They do a lot of work like...

It goes right into the kiln mostly. Depends on the time of day of course. If I'm finishing up around midnight, he waits til the next day to put it in. But his firing schedule does allow for cooking out the water at different points. I can't give you the details on this (even tho I've heard his littl...

We fill our molds wet. Or mostly wet. He usually makes them one day and I fill them the next but sometimes I fill them the same day. Plus they absorb plenty of moisture during the filling process (which can take up to 12 hours for some of the more complex large bowls) from the gum arabic solution an...

Without the fundamental physics of the process, an intorductory level class would only lead to frustration when the student tries the first fusing project on their own. Not sure I agree. The purpose of a first class is to inspire or discourage. If inspired, they'll learn the physics and seek out be...

Three blind wo/men and an elephant.

e

Geri - I thought I was through responding to this. And I don't dispute your, admitted, generalizations although I don't fall neatly into your catagories since our (my partner/spouse and I) only income is glass via an architectural etched glass studio and pate de verre in galleries. We aren't famous ...

Well said, Phil. 'New to me' doesn't equate to 'new to the world'. But 'new to me' is enough to give me plenty of hours, days, months of fun, aggravation, delight, frustration, inspiration trying to figure out how the 'new' thing fits into or enhances my body of work.

E

Early in my career as a glass artist, in the late 70's, my partner and I and another glass artist started an 'association' of local budding glass artists. During one meeting we were lucky enough to have Ludwig Schermer, a well known dalle de verre artist living in Houston, come and give us a talk on...