Glass Brick project - your advice on texture.
Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:58 am
i have a project to make a 5"x5" glass brick that will go into a wooden door 'peephole' .. it will be 1" thick ... it will be mostly transparent with colored streamers eminating from the center ... I have done bricks before but this time i want to put a texture (sort of small ice cube chunks) on one side ... there will be small trim strips that secure the brick in the door
So my question is... Should i
1) make a 5x5x1 mold that would have the textures on the bottom of the mold - and then cast the entire block in the mold.
2) make it a 2 piece brick where 1 part is a basic brick (smooth on all sides) and a second panel that is a shallower casting and mount both as one pc.
i tend to lean towards #1 ... and can i fire polish a textured pc without loosing the cast texture or would i do better with cold polishing it ???
So my question is... Should i
1) make a 5x5x1 mold that would have the textures on the bottom of the mold - and then cast the entire block in the mold.
2) make it a 2 piece brick where 1 part is a basic brick (smooth on all sides) and a second panel that is a shallower casting and mount both as one pc.
i tend to lean towards #1 ... and can i fire polish a textured pc without loosing the cast texture or would i do better with cold polishing it ???