[TheForge] enameling

Sat Jun 22 05:27:01 2002

Clay Spencers wife Jackie, teaches enameling at the JCCFS. She works 
primarily with copper but Clay showed of some iron/steel  flowers he 
enameled. Your might want to see about Jackies class.

mike

At 11:33 PM 6/21/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Dorothy singular was doing thing at the flagstaff  conference the problems
>was the expansion ratio of the steel to glass
>Dan Scheid
>Flying horse forge
>http://home.earthlink.net/~chevalvolant/flyinghorseforge.html
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> > I heard one of the demonstrators at the ABANA conference enameled a piece
>of
> > hot iron by applying granulated glass(?) I think. It was easy and very
>nice
> > looking. Can someone describe the process and result of enameling in the
> > context of forged work.
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
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> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] big anvil
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> > > $3 1/2K US for an anvil is pretty spendy. I would have thought that
> > > bigger anvils would be cheaper per pound than smaller ones - more
> > > people want or can use an anvil which they can lift or move.
> > >  BTW a foundry a couple of hours away from me has around 25 anvil
> > > patterns of all sizes. IIRC a 150kg (~300lb) is around $NZ800 ($US350)
> > > in alloy steel.
> > > Geoff
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