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I would subscribe to Crafts Report and American Craft magazines. Each month in Craft Report, there's a section covering galleries with their contact info and what the managers/owners are looking for in the way of new work. A different region of the US is profiled each magazine. Also, amazingly enou...

the assumption behind it; that somehow the *possibilities with glass technique are finite*. No way man! Quite the opposite David - nothing is finite! Space, time x's continuum. Let's even throw the "evolution" word into the mix. There has always been and always will be change, which is de...

Tony.......you can check out my frit crusher description in the kiln-forming discussion under Elaine's 'morter & pestle for frit crushing' post. Yup - working on arms (and buns) of steel! Hasn't helped :shock::shock: ET, I wash/rinse my frit several times, stirring it each time to release the ve...

What a rip-roaring thread. We haven't had one like this in quite awhile. You raise great questions, Tony. When I say that "it's all been done before", take a good look at the images of glasswork in the glass history books. Try to figure out the techniques used in those "tech-less"...

Sharing is the best thing we all do. Bert is exactly right, sharing does advance our artform. This is exactly why we participate on this board. The point at which I won't share is when I'm pretty sure the person asking for information will "try to" outright copy my designs, using my techni...

Working on it -

Not a directly posted image, but the next best thing:

http://community.webshots.com/user/artistefemgale

Elaine..check the photo page. I posted an image of my frit maker.

Hmmm...Tony, this is a thorny one. I recently had another fairly new to fusing glass artist ask how I acheived a certain surface on some of my glass work. Because I am not ready to share this particular technique with the world, I nicely told her that I'm not ready to give out this info. She at leas...

Low tech/low cost frit crusher: Stainless steel 4" dia' pipe x 10" high. One end of pipe has stainless steel flat disk welded into the end for the floor of the crusher. Then a heavy 7" dia' x 1 1/2" thick round steel pipe flange is welded to this same pipe end to provide a stabl...

This varietch powder sounds like "miracle stuff". I'm presently sand-blasting, coating with an oil finish and sending the work out with perpetual care instructions. Not an optimum situation. Does this varietch actually seal the sandblasted surface? No more oily finger smears? Does the vari...

Glad to see you here Carla and please continue to ask whatever questions you need answered about kiln-forming glass. One of the great things about this board is that we can and do usually rise above the occasional idiocies........... I agree with Rosanna - you might have better success doing your gl...

:oops: Now I know better than to do this!! But - here I was last weekend running loops around myself working a show. Took a look in the kiln Sunday morning after a late Saturday night firing and the amount of heat coming out of the kiln "seemed" negliable. So I reached in, pulled out that ...

Thanks for the kind words Jo about the http://www.artglassinfo.com article. Since this was written, we have a new website: http://www.sacrebleu-gallery.com (it's a work in progress - still under construction) ...... and by the first of May we'll have a new business address four doors away from where...

Tom....can you expand on the thin-fire shrinking problem and BE's response?

A fellow glass artist, who buys thin-fire by the roll, and I were just recently discussing this subject.

Thanks

LOL......nah - not yet, but my kiln goddess is radiating - looking kind of peaked and green.

Wonder how many firings of this stuff my kiln will take before it starts levitating ------- & glowing?

Yes..........it's a very interesting multi-face, multi-use glass and when you look at it under a black light, it becomes even more interesting. Intense bright glowing green. Takes me back to my daze in the 60's-LOL! My husband -god love him- sent a glow in the dark toilet seat to our son-in-law for ...

Here are images of the uranium glass samples that I tested. You're looking at pieces of uncut sheet and a small piece of three layers of fused sheet. I fired the 3 layers twice. The first firing was to a fire polish with no color change. the glass retained it's bright yellow-green color. The second ...

Cliff........Ditto on Tony's comments.

You can fire the gold face down on fibers, kiln wash, sifted alumina or whiting. It's your choice as to what type of fired glass surface you desire. The glass & gold will pick up the texture of your seperater.

If you're firing to the higher temps, try firing the gold face down on fiber paper or blanket. I apply Hanovia designs to 3/16" and also 1/4" thick float glass and do a fuse/slump combo. To get float glass this thick to soften and bend, I'm working in the 1500 F + range, where the higher h...

Helen.......how tall are these forms? With the war presently on my mind, these pieces give reference to the long-held thought of woman as vessel and childbearers - with all the attendent patriarchial baggage. Sorry gentlemen - no insult intended and I'm certainly not lumping all men into this catago...