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

[jerry Frost]

"The Art of Blacksmithing" has a piece about it too. What I'm doing isn't
really slumping, I'm attempting to melt the glass to a state fluid enough to
fill nooks and crannies and be somewhat thick, in the 1/8" range. I have my
latest tempering in the forge now but it's really hard to keep the stuff in
the negative space when fluid enough to flow. The stuff tends to want to
sweat out like solder and spread out between the cross and the clamp.

Jer

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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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