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Since the winter is apon us I am inspired to create some new snow mountain scenes. Here are the slices that will be incorporated into the glass panels

O.K. now I am happy, we just changed the belt on my saw as it was taking so very long through a cut AND WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am saving hours. I also have 4 new blades coming that I am testing and will keep you all informed on which is my favorite.
Leslie

Well I am happy with my new saw blades allowing me to go alot thinner with the large colour bars . This piece reminds me that winter is just around the corner as I watch the snow line come closer and closer to town.
Les

....so fascinating to see how you create your amazing scenes. Thanks for sharing so much of your technique and inspiration.

I am needing to order a new saw blade. I've always used Result blades, but I'm wondering if there might be something better available. I sometimes cut thick slabs (1-1.5") and I'm wondering which blade is your preference?

Thanks,
Colleen/azgram

I wish I could have a 14 inch blade to saw my bars BUT such is life right now, a 10 inch blade will have to do. I took Mary Kay's suggestion from Bullseye and tried some MK Diamond Blades . I am really really pleased with the 10 inch MK-333JB Hard Tile J Rim. Still my most excellent blade is DeWalt XP Extended Performance 450X Longer Life blade . Even though I have to use 10 inch blades for now, I am able to cut over 3 inch blocks , (if you want to go 14 inchs long you have to turn the glass around near the end of the cut as it hits the back section of the saw, BUT it makes it through underneath the bolt.
For fine no chipping , and for 1 inchs I use the blades from His Glass works. He can suggest which one will work best for you with out chipping but it is just abit slower. The continuous rim blades don't have the J slit in them for chomping through the glass and it takes alot longer to cut if it does not have the J slit BUT you will not chip as much. Slow way down at the end of the cut and you should not chip the end. The blades I am using and suggest are definately for thicker work .
Les

Your work is beautiful, and the execution is amazing. I can't imagine how you go about thinking about the layup of the glass to achieve the results you get. I think it must require thinking sideways and inside out . Sort of like the Navajo Yei rugs that are woven "sideways".

Dana W.

A lot of times it is the colour bar design that you have to think of first that will dictate the lay out of the design. I know what I want to get when choosing the colour palette . My dad was an architect and perhaps I think upside down and inside out like he did. I was a seamstress long time passing , designing my own leather jacket patterns and cut and punched all the holes and wove it with the leather strips I cut so perhaps I have always thought 3 dimensional. Thanks for the thoughts.
I think I made a slight error on this one though in one tiny area in the centre. It will not show on the front BUT I might have to put it back in to change the back side. But hopefully it did not ruin the look of the back side. I grabbed Teal opal instead of teal frit. So we shall have to waite a few days to find out if my messy studio has ciboshed me!!!!!!
Leslie

Here is the front side. I think the slight mistake is going to bother me for some time now. I might have to re-fire, but I will pull out and check the back side first to make a decision. BUT the mountains and sky are what I was hoping.

Beautiful piece. Pretty sure you will be the only one who sees the "mistake". T.

Thankyou T . Here is the back side. I am actually O.K. with the back . I have not cleaned it yet but the mistake I was worried about is in the center section and the back survived by placing the gold and silver foil in certain places.

What is the finished thickness?

Only 7/8" inchs. 27" long x 17 inch tall x 7/8" inch thick Les

Les,

They've got a 14" over at Busy bee tools for $829.00

http://www.busybeetools.com/products/MA ... E-CSA.html

WISH LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks Rick . See you soon in Calgary I hope. Les

You know the more I Iooked at that Saw, the more I realized it was abit restrictive with the 2 neck pieces that hold the cutting part. It would only allow for a perhaps 15 inch wide piece to slide through. What are your thoughts Rick. (BUT you could cut thicker pieces if they fit through ).

Good point, yes I agree that you'd be limited on the width you could cut.

This is what you really need.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Red-Band-MB15 ... 0464104721

Nice but still has obsticles. I want to hire a metal fabricator to weld the main part of the saw on metal bars so that you can wheel a base under neath it and saw what ever you want. Hmmm eh! Any metal people out there that think this is possible. Now I need a cold working studio to accomodate this GREAT SAW. Les