Pat, I too need to order a couple of more wheels (unless those ALOXITE wheels you are making are ready to be shipped to me.AH-ahahah) What hardness and grain spacing did you order? Do you happen to remember? Also, did you order mixed grains of white (pure) AO and the standard grey AO (for durability...

You are plain SCARY GOOD , Dave. 1) That's quite unusual with the cut pineapple and other fruits. Is that your own invention, or have you seen large fruits done elsewhere before? 2) I have been playing mostly with #220 AO wheels, but see that larger cuts will take a great amount of time. May I ask, ...

Dave, Denver Glass machinery has gone over to all diamond wheels, save a few very small 1/4" thick corundum wheels. I got some aluminum oxide (and felt) hand me downs from a beveler who didn't want them, and I am not sure just what the specs are on those, except they seem to be #220-#320 and ha...

What did I spell wrong?
Or...is that a signmaker's joke??
Roderick, were you the one that was going to get that Spatzier posted at http://www.azglassclasses.com but then decided against it?Pricey.....
~inga

Well, I admit that I may not know the fist darn thing about hand lettering or signage, but I WAS first introduced to Brilliant Cutting at this forum (actually, "wheel cut glass", as I learned the term "brilliant cut" really refers to one very specific cut), so I thought I would p...

Okay. Guess I just need to give the cutting a second try, and maybe not on such a tiny, detailed piece.
Thanks,
Inga

Stupid question time: I did chipping years ago with good results. HOWEVER< I did a different technique that I had seen where you first blast a very narrow trough around the edges of the areas you are going to chip, before you frost the overall area. I used the old Buttercut (+/- 45 mil rubber) and t...

Interesting. I thought the key was to removed moisture, and would that not be acquired by a dry, warm circulating atmosphere? I used heat lamps before, but not too close to the glass and from above. It makes some sense to have the light/heat come from the back side, though, but my box does not get w...

Perfect timing....was just blasting sample pieces today for chipping. I last did some chipping many, many moons ago and was successful with fern pattern mostly by chance, I think. So a few questions: ••I already have a light table - but it doesn't really seem to get warm. (Never tried to use it for ...

Simple......yet sooooo pretty. Must be in the crafstmanship.....in that last picture, one can see your sculpting is so smooth and right on, it literally looks like a thick ribbon bending and not something rigid.
~Inga

Oh, that's right, Keri...the Cahill class.
Offer still holds if you want me to pick you up at the airport, and go together.
~Inga

DANG!!!!! And I tried so hard finding it locally, and there you just pull it out of thin air. ( :roll: Where, oh where, did I go wrong....mutter...mutter.. :oops: ) And yes Bill, seems that picking up a little more HF would give me good reason for a short trip to your area...and we could also compar...

I could be missing something here, but the actual grave "markers" to me appears to be the flat rocks in the foreground and not so much the boulder in between the trees.(???) And I agree, based on what I am seeing and hearing, that in this particular case, perhaps just a name, and a simple...

Mike, Kent Smith told me that there had been a lab supply in the greater Denver area where he used to get it from before he quit using HF, but with all the calling around I have done, I have yet to find the source, and he couldn't remember what it was. For a smaller amount of HF, the best place I ha...

"Make love not war" ============ Erik, Take note that I personally, was NOT one of the responders to your post at AGlassclasses forum that ended up in the "big war" over there.... and it was for good reason. I am assuming that is what you are referring to..... -------- This is to...

I'm sure it's not gonna be like the real McCoy, but I bought some of this stuff to fool around with: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=260579514076&si=7MKl6XHhX1bkKaFyhia0yhAyASk%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT#ht_2363wt_1075 (It's ...

Bill,
I had a hard time finding it too...and then finding a place that would actually ship it to you...and then not charge an arm and a leg on top of that.
As a back-up, Cole-Parmer is another place you can get it:
http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/produ ... ?cls=47752
~Inga

Did you know in the old days the studios had many different artists working on one piece? One embossed, one silvered, one painted the glass, one did the pictorials on canvas etc. ......as well in the brilliant cutting studios....they would set up a different machine for the different wheels and pass...

Sometimes the language differences gets me a bit.....so: is that an actual painting on canvas, or a nice print of a painting?
Either way.....very lovely.
Thanks,
Inga

Mark, I think Erik put prints under the glass, but nonetheless, very lovely choice of graphics and the way they are implemented into the overall design. Erik, I have much admiration and respect towards the giant strides you have made. You have come a long way and it goes without saying that all your...

[quote="Anthony Bennett"]Visqeen Booth, Sounds like a good tip Inga, 50" square isnt that big, how do you introduce a sandblasting tube into the frame [;ease? I have just passed it through a corner, under some visqueen and then I go inside and blast away. Leakage is quite minimum, if ...

Roderick, Pat covered most of it, but I would like to fill in with a few thoughts of mine: With wood, it is GOOD to use sand for the blasting. What happens is that you are carving away so much wood so fast, in comparison to glass and the pulp can be difficult to remove from the medium. Evem when si...

Thank you Pat, for your astute synopsis. You are almost like an alchemist in my book! I will lay to rest this desire to know more about this mystery (?) process for now...maybe you even hit all the points, Pat. But if anybody has some more information about this technique, I would love to hear about...

[quote="Larry White"]I've typically refered to the mica process as "acid etching", and the face down style of acid work as "acid embossing". Face down acid embossing is a bit tricky. It's done in a vat of liquid acid, which requires appropriate handling techniques. The ...

Inga, Upside down etching and mica etching are two different things leading to two different effects. Well, YES, of course! Even if you used gum arabic to initially hold the mica to the glass, it would dissolve and release the mica in an upside down position. Exactly. It only stands to reason and th...

On another forum, somebody made reference to UPSIDE DOWN ACID/MICA ETCHING, and mentioned that he thought that gum arabic was involved. So far I am having trouble locating anything about MICA/ACID process done upside down either here or on a web wide search. Could somebody be kind enough to point me...

Can I assume that three posts up (John Yarnell), the wrong pictures have been uploaded to the link?
They don't quite seem to make sense to me....
~Inga

Are we using "Paint Mask" here, sign vinyl, or some other kind of masking I am not familiar with?
Thanks,
Inga

Aaahhhhh....."babbit" bearings with pressure fed grease pots to keep them from burning up. Hey, I'm just a girlie-girl. You guys seem to come out of the womb knowing all this stuff.

~Inga

There should be museum for these sorts of pieces. (Is there one somewhere in the US?)
That would also allow for them to have the piece safely removed and donated/sold to such a museum.
~Inga