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

[Saint Phlip]

Tin foil dams?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 9:54 PM, jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:

> "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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> dantull dantull
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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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