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Cut Flashed glass
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Cut Flashed glass
Hi Guy's .I have just finished this cut panel for a client. The panel in the centre is hand obscured and is brilliant cut . The flashed glass was cut and polished but was difficult to cut due to being so thin .
The original was vandalised by local kids.
Dave
The original was vandalised by local kids.
Dave
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Nice job Dave. Even though flash glass is thinner, I'll bet your work meets or beats the original.
Just think how it would be if you had not followed into the tradition of the brilliant cutters.
I'd like to have a moment with those kids. I'd sit them down and ask them what they thought went into making such a piece, and inform them about the years of skill and pride required.
Then I would ask "How can you break something that you yourself can not make??
Maybe that would induce some though, ya think?
Pat
Just think how it would be if you had not followed into the tradition of the brilliant cutters.
I'd like to have a moment with those kids. I'd sit them down and ask them what they thought went into making such a piece, and inform them about the years of skill and pride required.
Then I would ask "How can you break something that you yourself can not make??
Maybe that would induce some though, ya think?
Pat
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Thanks! for your comments once again you guy's.
Pat the original was very nicely cut I came pretty close but I guess those guy's were cutting day in day out.
Very labour intensive work but fun to do and look at afterwards. I was talking with Stuart Norton a few days ago,I mentioned to him about coming down and doing a workshop and making a piece with some cut glass on in different areas of the piece,he said he would rather paint with a brush and lay gold than do any cutting as he is cutting most days and has been for the past 40 years. He could probably Brilliant cut in his sleep....... anyway thanks again.......
Dave
Pat the original was very nicely cut I came pretty close but I guess those guy's were cutting day in day out.
Very labour intensive work but fun to do and look at afterwards. I was talking with Stuart Norton a few days ago,I mentioned to him about coming down and doing a workshop and making a piece with some cut glass on in different areas of the piece,he said he would rather paint with a brush and lay gold than do any cutting as he is cutting most days and has been for the past 40 years. He could probably Brilliant cut in his sleep....... anyway thanks again.......
Dave
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Hello Bobbie
Brilliant Cutting is when you have a rotating stone wheel fixed onto a spindle which goes between a wooden or metal frame.
You place your glass over the turning wheel and make cuts into the glass ,once these cuts are ground out they are polished to bring the glass back to a clear optical finish.
The effects are endless and add striking embelishments to glass and glass signs. I have a few pieces on the go that I would like to show here in a few weeks time which are to be fitted in Gypsy Caravans in the London area.These panels will be gilded and silvered over Brilliant Cutting- that's if everything goes to plan and works like I would like it to.
Dave
Brilliant Cutting is when you have a rotating stone wheel fixed onto a spindle which goes between a wooden or metal frame.
You place your glass over the turning wheel and make cuts into the glass ,once these cuts are ground out they are polished to bring the glass back to a clear optical finish.
The effects are endless and add striking embelishments to glass and glass signs. I have a few pieces on the go that I would like to show here in a few weeks time which are to be fitted in Gypsy Caravans in the London area.These panels will be gilded and silvered over Brilliant Cutting- that's if everything goes to plan and works like I would like it to.
Dave
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Thank you Dave. I sure am looking forward to seeing these pieces when you post them.
Just when I think I am finally "getting it" with leafing on glass, I am faced with angel gilding, & now cutting! The possibilities are endless, I suppose. I think I will stick to the "plain 'ol leafing" until I get fairly good at it! I am enjoying myself immensely.
Just when I think I am finally "getting it" with leafing on glass, I am faced with angel gilding, & now cutting! The possibilities are endless, I suppose. I think I will stick to the "plain 'ol leafing" until I get fairly good at it! I am enjoying myself immensely.
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