Well, the Hamilton Bank Note piece ventured it's way down to the 2006 Memorial Conclave for closer inspection. I trust the piece and this step-by-step has been an inspiration. Thanks John for having us all, great time indeed!

Thanks for following along.

-Larry

Thanks Mike!
These threads are intersting. I especially like this one. I was in the process of drawing up a new original sign. I'll have to look at it with this criteria in mind. ...as soon as I figure out what it all means. (SWM)

-LW

Hi Kelly- I've done some of this. Firstly, you can't get sandcarved glass to return to a polished state to get a mirror finish gild. It's more of a matte gild, but a bit brighter. Acid treatments to sand carved glass will smooth out the etched surface a bit, usually enough to do a chemical depositio...

Say, not too bad for a new kid! The Dos Equis looks clean and tight, nice colors. Watch for your letter centers getting too large. The center plus the brightline should be your character width. The "Special Lager" letters look a little over bold. The Letter "A" looks like it's al...

No, it wasnt a joke, I really wanted to know what it said. I just get confused between right and left... or is that left and right. Thanks for figuring it out for me.

-Larry

I've got a couple half done ones that'll get some attension, and one on my drafting board.

-Koobashaw!

See Pat, everything is backwards to me.

Does anybody know what the little panel to the left of "EVANS" says?
I can't seem to figure it out.

-Larry

...saw this image in one of my Victorian Trade Card catalogs and thought...Good Lord, that's William Blake! Tony, you ought to be careful who you invite to this event. You never know what the reverse glass guys might come up with!

-Larry

Ahh...shucks The nice thing about it is, that anyone that really wants to learn this craft, can!

Finished up step 8 (1-19-06).

Ahh...shucks The nice thing about it is, that anyone that really wants to learn this craft, can!

Finished up step 8 (1-19-06).

Updated with Step 8 (1-17-06). This art was seen in "A Magazine About Letterheads", and, knowing the publisher, I was able to aquire a larger, more usable image of it. Some advice, finish your stained glass project. When it's up on display, you will enjoy looking at it and you will always ...

Updated with Step 8 (1-17-06). This art was seen in "A Magazine About Letterheads", and, knowing the publisher, I was able to aquire a larger, more usable image of it. Some advice, finish your stained glass project. When it's up on display, you will enjoy looking at it and you will always ...

I purchased one of these Coleman Heaters off ebay and have found it to work quite well. I've got a walk-in booth that's about 5' x 10' x 8'. I can get it up to almost 100 degrees. I haven't checked the humidity level, cause the glue always chips off. The nice thing about it is it's fairly cheap to r...

This piece is done on 1/4" thick extra-clear Starphire glass. The depth carving is about 1/8" or so deep. The use of accentuating the depth carving with a glaze as a shadow was a new technique to me. That's the way it appeared in the original lithograph, so I thought I'd try to replicate i...

This piece is done on 1/4" thick extra-clear Starphire glass. The depth carving is about 1/8" or so deep. The use of accentuating the depth carving with a glaze as a shadow was a new technique to me. That's the way it appeared in the original lithograph, so I thought I'd try to replicate i...

Any of the gold that isn't attached to the glass gets collected into my skewings box. I have recently employed the brush removal technique for removing the excess water gilded gold and there is really no way of retrieving that small amount of gold. This sign is being created for my own personal coll...

Any of the gold that isn't attached to the glass gets collected into my skewings box. I have recently employed the brush removal technique for removing the excess water gilded gold and there is really no way of retrieving that small amount of gold. This sign is being created for my own personal coll...

John-
Do you have any more results from any tests you have done with the various back ups over mica powder?

-Larry

Correctomundo! In fact, I will be employing some mica powders down the road and I'm not quite sure which would be the best thing to back it up with, so...test piece. A complex piece like the Hamilton Bank Note is not so dissimiliar from a bunch of simple pieces all rolled into one. The trick is defi...

I like Mike's idea of doing the complicated 4' x 5' sign. Heck, it might come out grand and you can skip all those test pieces. Hmmm...I do have a lot of test pieces around here though...wish they all had a label as to what they are....darn. (Date and label your test pieces as to what you did, that'...

Updated original post 1-4-06. -LW

If anyone has any questions about this piece, feel free to post a reply.

Updated original post 1-4-06. -LW

If anyone has any questions about this piece, feel free to post a reply.

I resized the pictures in the Hamilton post, hopefully that helps with the printing problem. -LW

Freely given to me... and freely passed on to you. It's MY pleasure, glad you enjoy it!

Thanks!

(Photos altered to 400pixel width, 12-28-05)

Freely given to me... and freely passed on to you. It's MY pleasure, glad you enjoy it!

Thanks!

(Photos altered to 400pixel width, 12-28-05)

I don't think the powdered gelatin will be as optically clear as you would want.

-Larry

Our last storm came up from the south. It was 59 degrees this morning at 6:30AM. I'm still running around in a t-shirt...and I try to stay away from vinyl. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! ...Keep on gilding!

-Larry White

I agree with Mike's comments. I have had success in both removing depositted gold, then silvering the whole, and damming for seperated, one step, solution gilding. I would have to say both techniques are fairly advanced and require full expertise and knowledge in solution gilding. For matte work whe...

I found this company which sells a variety of powdered dyes, one of which can be used to dye shellac. They can be found at:
http://www.wdlockwood.com/main.html

Mike, perhaps you can add them to the hard to find supplies list.