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Peggy
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- Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:15 pm
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: Looking for night lights with brackets???
- Replies: 7
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- Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:08 pm
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: Looking for night lights with brackets???
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10965
- Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:41 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: vinyl cutters
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18745
vinyl cutters
Thanks for the advice, guys. Larry, I sent you a message about this last week sometime 'cause I heard you'd bought a cutter. The Lynx 24 sounds great...only problem is, $$$. I live in Canada, and once I pay the exchange, duty, and shipping, it costs a whole lot more. I guess I could handle going for...
- Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:06 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: vinyl cutters
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18745
vinyl cutters
I've been researching vinyl cutters lately, and was wondering if anybody has any advice or preferences. I was checking out the Roland Stika in particular. Does anybody have it, and if so, what do you think? I'd be using it for designs on dichroic jewelry.
Thanks for any help,
Peggy
Thanks for any help,
Peggy
- Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:06 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Tile Saw or Manual Cutting?
- Replies: 9
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Tile Saw or Manual Cutting
Jim, isn't the glass too thick to cut with the handheld cutters once you've fired it?
- Sat Jan 17, 2004 2:05 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Dichroic on clear
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8535
Dichroic on clear
Thanks for the suggestions...I'll try it. You know, I could swear I saw a website where they used float and dichroic. I guess it was the kind you're talking about, Brad. What would be the point of combining float and dichroic, and who sells it? Is there a different effect than the dichroic and clear...
- Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:33 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Tile Saw or Manual Cutting?
- Replies: 9
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Tile Saw or Manual Cutting?
Thanks for the feedback, everybody. I have new questions now. To Brock: I never even heard of kerf before...that's a major consideration. By "lapidary saw", do you mean something different than a tile saw? Perhaps a diamond blade? I checked some websites selling lapidary tools; the choices...
- Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:51 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Tile Saw or Manual Cutting?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9911
Tile Saw or Manual Cutting?
I do alot of basic earring & pendant glass cutting: a layer of dichroic, then a layer of clear on top for a cap. I'm wondering if using a tile saw might be more time efficient, and might be a little easier on the old back! I could just lay up a good-sized chunk of dichroic, slap the clear on top...
- Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:40 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Dichroic on clear
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8535
Dichroic on clear
This is probably a stupid question, but here goes... I've seen some wonderful effects with dichroic where you can see through the piece (jewelry). In order to see the dichroic, do you have to fuse multiple layers? Do you use it with float glass? I've simply layered the dichroic on clear glass, and y...
- Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:08 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: ceramic gold pen
- Replies: 3
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- Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:12 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: ceramic gold pen
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4368
ceramic gold pen
I just bought a ceramic gold pen and can't get it to work. I marked the glass with it, fired it, and nothing. Am I missing something?
Thanks for any help,
Peggy
Thanks for any help,
Peggy
- Thu Nov 13, 2003 3:31 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Atten: Jewelry Pendant artist
- Replies: 17
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- Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:53 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Atten: Jewelry Pendant artist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18643
- Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:18 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Photos on glass
- Replies: 21
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Being a jeweller and a photographer, I've also wondered about how to put pictures on glass. Your question got me thinking, so I tried something... I started with a base of black glass, glued a smaller square of fibre paper on it with the paper sticking out of the top edge. The size of the fibre pape...
- Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:46 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: looking for a good small sandblaster
- Replies: 8
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I've been investigating sandblasting equipment myself and came across some helpful info at http://www.glastar.com. Under a section called "Assembling your sandblast system", there are diagrams and explanations that make it all quite clear.
Best of luck,
Peggy
Best of luck,
Peggy
- Tue Sep 30, 2003 12:43 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Pencil Blasters
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3129
Pencil Blasters
Still trying to figure out this blasted sandblasting thing... I checked out a link Brad suggested for pencil blasters (when I was asking about bead blasters) -- http://www.cdvkiln.com/mensusand.htm -- and right off noticed that they won't ship sandblasters to Canada. :roll: Anyway, my big question i...
- Thu Sep 25, 2003 1:41 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Beadblasting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9184
Beadblasting
Has anyone used a beadblaster instead of a sandblaster to carve images on dichroic? The reason I ask is the difference in price...thousands of dollars for a sandblaster in Rio's catalog, compared to about $150 for a beadblaster.
Thanks,
Peggy
Thanks,
Peggy
- Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:10 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Sandblasting vs. etching cream
- Replies: 4
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- Sat Sep 13, 2003 6:24 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Sandblasting vs. etching cream
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7714
Sandblasting vs. etching cream
Excuse my ignorance, but I'm new to all this. I have a question: will sandblasting or using etching cream give virtually the same effects? I'd like to make designs on dichroic for jewelry, and am wondering if these two methods are just a matter of preference as far as equipment, costs involved, etc....