Circle Cutting
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Circle cutting
Tony. Would you care to translate your comments into simple english that us mere mortals can understand?
Brock, Bert, Tony(s) etc. etc. I appreciate your comments and suggestions. If something doesn't work out soon I will have to give up glass cutting and go into the glass recycling business. My inventory of broken glass is increasing in direct proportion to my reduction in cash.
Bob
Brock, Bert, Tony(s) etc. etc. I appreciate your comments and suggestions. If something doesn't work out soon I will have to give up glass cutting and go into the glass recycling business. My inventory of broken glass is increasing in direct proportion to my reduction in cash.
Bob
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Bob,
I've had some glass come through in the past that I just could not cut... either straight or in circles. The circles would be the most frustrating as I would end up with fragments. When you're cutting full sheets of irid and end up with a pile of scrap glass, it makes your heart and your wallet cry. I blamed the glass, and found something to do with the scrap irid. I cut a lot of circles... okay, maybe not as many as Doug or Patty, but enough to know the right way and the wrong way. I'm pretty confident that when the score takes its own path, that it really isn't me.
"When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade".
Tony
I've had some glass come through in the past that I just could not cut... either straight or in circles. The circles would be the most frustrating as I would end up with fragments. When you're cutting full sheets of irid and end up with a pile of scrap glass, it makes your heart and your wallet cry. I blamed the glass, and found something to do with the scrap irid. I cut a lot of circles... okay, maybe not as many as Doug or Patty, but enough to know the right way and the wrong way. I'm pretty confident that when the score takes its own path, that it really isn't me.
"When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade".
Tony
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Circle cutting
Tony,
GREAT photo!!!. You made good use of your broken glass in a very attractive design.
I think I will try an Andy Wahol approach by random fusing of broken pieces to a piece of clear and calling the results "Chaos Theory in Action". I think this will be an attractive addition to a "serious" art collectors' gallery. Who knows ... this may open a new market for glass fusers.
GREAT photo!!!. You made good use of your broken glass in a very attractive design.
I think I will try an Andy Wahol approach by random fusing of broken pieces to a piece of clear and calling the results "Chaos Theory in Action". I think this will be an attractive addition to a "serious" art collectors' gallery. Who knows ... this may open a new market for glass fusers.
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NSF wasn't interested but I cooled some glass down anyway. I chilled an 18" by 24" piece of double strength float to about 20F and cut strips, very deep curves, and 4 and 6" circles. I could not discern a difference, other than that my hands were freezing. The glass behaved as if it were indoors. The other half of the sheet that was inside cut the same. It is supposed to be colder later this week, so will try it again with float, but also with some art glass. Robert-I would try getting some inexpensive float (your local window glass shop may give you some scrap) and try cutting circles on that. That would eliminate or confirm your glass being the problem. Did you do a flatness check?
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Tony
I put a level on my work table and discovered I was off 1/8 of an inch. Corrected this with a metal shim and now I'm level. As you suggested, I'm going to our local glass shop for some scrap float glass and will try my luck.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll let you know how things turned out.
Bob
I put a level on my work table and discovered I was off 1/8 of an inch. Corrected this with a metal shim and now I'm level. As you suggested, I'm going to our local glass shop for some scrap float glass and will try my luck.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll let you know how things turned out.
Bob
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Expensive dip. That'll do it. bowed up is not as much a problem.Robert Cohen wrote:Tony
I put a level on my work table and discovered I was off 1/8 of an inch. Corrected this with a metal shim and now I'm level. As you suggested, I'm going to our local glass shop for some scrap float glass and will try my luck.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll let you know how things turned out.
Bob
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Did some outdoors cutting of Spectrum Baroque and Wissmach Opal, at 10F. Managed half inch by two foot strips, and very deep curves with no problem. Granted, the rigors of scientific process are being short changed here, but my crude test is confirming to me that temperature doesn't matter. We might hit sub zero later this week, so will continue to develop my cold working skills.
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Maybe he could borrow my crown hardhat. There's a thought. Did you know I make crowns? Seriously. Everybody should have their own crown. I half-seriously considered a gift line called The Crown Jewels. I even designed a line of Queenpins. LOL. You know, for those times when the real crown is just too over-dressed.
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Cut some more narrow strips and deep curves this morning at 5F-Wissmach and Bullseye. Used some Fracture/streamer, which can be difficult even at room temp. Glass was happy to do my bidding. My hands don't do well in the cold and cutting in gloves is awkward, so biggest problem was thawing my digits afterward! Wished I had some combing to do now.