[TheForge] something I hope better than what was the theft of metal public

[dantull dantull]

Jer,
Melting(slumping) glass into steel cavities was done by Ivan Bailey(ABANA
founder) many years ago. It certainly does work . Even for me.

It's not firewood, it's a vaasse.
Dan Tull
Georgia

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:47 PM, jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:

> A tarp with weighted edges and flesh eating  beetles. A few days and bones
> are all that's left.
>
> Good grief I can't believe I actually contributed to this thread. Is anyone
> actually doing something constructive we can talk about?
>
> I don't want to be a lurker who just gripes and never contributes so I'll
> put this up. I'd post a pic or two of what I've been experimenting with but
> Shutterfly requires me to subscribe and I get too much spam already. Text
> it
> is then. I'll shoot you pics on the side if you like.
>
> Recently I've been making Fredrich's crosses, they're good beginner's
> projects and any kind of twisting wows the new folk so they're good demo
> products. Recently our Pastor retired so I thought I'd make him ad the new
> Pastor a nice key forb, zipper pull, etc. but wanted a little something
> extra and thought filling the negative space with red glass was a natural
> if
> kind of heavy handed symbolism.
>
> That's what I've been doing. One of the guys in the club is a champ at
> slumping marbles but what I'm trying is more like Plique a jure only much
> thicker and in a steel frame. This is proving a little problematical but is
> progressing. Seriously, what fun is experimentation if it's easy?
>
> I spent a very profitable 45 minutes or so sponging everything I could from
> the owner and instructor at an art glass studio in Anchorage. I learned a
> bunch of good stuff. funny, his first comment after I described what I'm
> trying was. "It won't work." Then I showed him the latest successful piece
> and he said, "maybe it will." It wasn't what I'm ultimately shooting for
> but
> it's not bad, even marketable if I can't get better.
>
> Oh, the last feature of the crucifixes for the Pastors. They aren't going
> to
> be key fobs or zipper pulls I'm making the bottom of  the post a bottle
> opener. I had to change from 3/8" sq. stock to 1/2" sq. but it's a small
> sacrifice. I mean really what Pastor shouldn't have a nice custom made,
> hand
> forged church key?
>
> Jer
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Andrew
> Vida
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>
>
> On 4/19/15, 7:26 AM, Larry Brown wrote:
> > Actually I believe in that case it is fixed. Corpses tend not to do
> > many more stupid things ;-)
> They do, however, make a nasty mess for the rest of us to clean. :(
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