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So, why not try to make more pieces like that? You go girl!

Carol

Arnold, I'm confused! If I turn off the kiln for a few seconds, does that stop the radiation of electromagnetic energy? I read somewhere that the energy still is being produced by the hot coils. Not?

Carol

Me again -- I phoned the Medtronic Co. which makes the pacemaker. They looked it up and said they recommended staying at least 24 inches away from the kiln. But if I get nearer (which I have to do, to look into peepholes to judge slumpingness), the pacemaker will be affected but will re-set itself w...

I did call Ron (Shapiro) at Digitry up in Maine, got sent to an answering machine, and haven't heard back. He's probably on Xmas vacation. Hmmm.... maybe I should try to call his bro-in-law Andy Magdanz, here in Cambridge. Whatever I find out, I'll post on warmglass.com - we're all getting older (wh...

Hello, fellow slumpers; I've been away for a long time, just doing my work. But now I need your help and advice. A few months ago a cardiac pacemaker was implanted in me and while I'd love to get back to using my big kiln for slumping glass, I'm afraid! I am afraid of somehow messing up my little co...

Bert (and others)-- when I showed at Heller (I now do private commissions and don't show in commercial galleries), they never asked me to share a collector's discount; they assumed the whole burden of any discounts. In fact, once they misquoted a price to a collector (lower than the real price I had...

Cynthia, You created a beautiful metaphor. I wish it were so. But here's a quote by STGlasgow from an earlier thread: "I have filed for a patent on the technique I use to get the hundreds of little holes along the edges of the glass. There is actually another patent already issued that does a s...

Guys'n'gals-- want to get holes faster & closer together than drills produce? Here's a time-honored technique: heat up flatglass until it is quite soft, then use one of these tools: pounce wheel: <http://www.pcrailroad.org/Tools/PounceWheel.htm> roweled spur: <http://www.cowboycabin.com/item8266...

Bert, were you there the year some guy demonstrated glassblowing in the nude?

Warm water??! You think I use warm water? I just suffer, and change clothes later. There you are in tropical Salt Springs and here I am where the low temp tomorrow night will be maybe 6 degrees. (Actually, I try to schedule my drilling for warmer months and my kiln use for colder, but it never works...

Amy, when I found myself involved in a similar obsessive-compulsive behavior project, I bought a cheap (Woodworker's Warehouse) drill press, then got in touch with Starlite Industries (http://www.starliteindustries.com) and bought a water-feeding attachment for it. Then I could order their diamond h...

Glassaddict, there are lots and lots of glass artists who sew pieces of glass together to create their artworks. What the "patent pending" artist is trying to do, is to control a very specific way of making the little holes in the glass (for the wire or cord or whatever, to pass through). ...

Aw, shucks (blush) -- thanks, Amy & Bert!

Carol

I'll be shipping a large glass piece (87 seoarate sheets of painted glass up to 4 ft. long) to Europe and started phoning around locally (Boston) to find out how to insure its replacement value, which is about $10K. Have been told, We don't do that, We won't do that, Get it professionally appraised ...

Actually, in my website it says "I started within fine arts and found myself involuntarily shifted sideways into a crafts label because of my material." Thanks, Cynthia Oliver, for perceiving my work as "art" which is how I perceive it myself. The labeling of it as "craft&qu...

A good place to look over lots of glass artists' websites is <http://www.contempglass.org/linkartists.html> This is a large national collectors' group and there is a page of links to glass artists' own websites. If you're goodlooking, do put a nice photo of yourself, in your site. I with great discr...

Okay, you guys have talked me through the kiln retrofit shelf height problem in a different thread, and THANK YOU a whole lot -- I moved everything up higher in the kiln, found a big piece of 1" fiberboard to put on top of the brick columns and shelves, to make a space only 5" high, and th...

I've just had my big side-element kiln retrofit with ceiling elements, so it can be used as a top-broiler, so to speak. I'm using it to slump lots of small pieces of glass, on corrugated stainless steel sheet. Question: how close can I safely place the glass to the top elements? 6"? 4"? I'...