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

Tue Apr 21 12:13:17 EDT 2015

Be an honor to meet you Reis!
Hollister is looking better and better.

On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:13 AM, Ries Niemi <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:

Pete, I will see you in Hollister- I am flying down early thursday morning.

ries

On Apr 20, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> You, Mr Frost are a steel molesting wag! Church key indeed!
> Wish you could make it to the Western States conference in Hollister on Thursday.
> Most of the ABANA conferences seem to be back east with a few mostly still to distant to be practical.
> This one is only 3 hours away and i’m stoked! Gotta be much worse for you Jerry.
> The ABANA conference in San Louis Obispo years ago, changed my life,
> and i’m ever so grateful. I was entirely self taught for 15 years and WOW!!!
> Finished polishing my little bronze forgings and laid on the varnish this evening.
> Gotta cover them up once the varnish has dried,  so the shop bats don’t add to the patina.
> 
> On Apr 20, 2015, at 4:42 PM, dantull dantull <dantull at numail.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] the theft of metal public
>> 
>> 
>> 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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