Dave Man.
I keep telling ye, less is more man, its cheaper too and quicker.

A re-silver job last week It felt like sacrilege, to re-silver see the date stamp on back

Hi dave its taking awhile but you getting there. Seem to remember talking about web site a few years ago. One more thing there is one little line out of place center right. but dont cry i will not tell anybody and who reads my post anyway :cry: Good job man. :lol: y eye man. divit giv up the brillia...

Patrick You missed the best bit out about the Squeal. It drives other people mad, and if you do not lift of the stone, and you are working on a thin glass or odd shape the end drops off.

Hi dave I have not got one.

But its strange but some of the acid door side panels are in lot of other books I have seen there must have been a lot of copying going on.

No problem dead easy. Erik will be doing this after he has been on the course. Bloke selling is having a laugh $20,000 at 2 dollars to the pound that would give me about 10 weeks to do job, 2 weeks to do job and 8 weeks holiday. That would do me.

I found it

http://www.francesstudio.com

Hi erik No I did not do this mirror. but my workshop used to be in the same building with company that supplied them, hence how I came to do one to match using powers as a start. Dave Knows the man now retired in Ireland who used to do then in hastings England. He used a lot of screens in the making...

A one for erik. erik is this turf supplies office door next to your workshop

DAVE SMITH wrote:Lovely panel Stuart, I also like the cut lettering with this style. You have a piece with your name on it hanging in your workshop,any chance you could post an image of that one as it shows a different style again.
Dave

Was it this one on the left. sorry not the best pictue

Stuart, I like those brilliant cut letters in embossed panels. I have wondered if those various wheel cut letters were invented by each cutter as their own idea and style, or learned in an apprenticeship as standardized brilliant cut fonts. I would like to know if the is a book of these various let...

yes Wayne, I did the windows in barclays bank.

Found old photo of mirror I did a few years back. Painted gold leaf, acid etched and brilliant cutting. Brilliant cut lettering looks good gold leafed and with black out line.

DAVE SMITH wrote:Great little story Stu, you never told me that before. 1966 two years before I was born. that makes you 105
Dave

I see maths was not your best subject at school. so it was good you where good at sign writing. No if you where still at school it would have been Graffiti. You are not Banksy are you.

Stuart, When will storyline 2 appear? The one with all the girls and flashy mirrors above the pink hartshaped beds? :D Erik Yes it was the swing sixties, but Newcastle 1966 the most erotic thing was trying to get your whippets to breed and blowing your pigeons to find out what sex they were. I was ...

One fourth of my new toys, bevelling machines. Here I am smoothing bevel prier to polishing.

I came by then just before xmass, Kestral glass shut down Peter a brilliant cutting of long standing retired and no one wanted to buy him out. So sold off his equipment.

Hi Stuart. Have heard Dave Smith mention your name many times. Glad to see you visiting our "wee patch" and enjoyed the tale. Your experience does give a pretty good impression of how things just might have been in the grand days of cut glass in the late 1800's Hi Doug, I am not that old :?

Thought you might like to hear about my apprenticeship and life in the glass trade. I am no William Shakespeare but I will try my best. Stuart Norton. A Brief History of my Time. Part one. Easter 1966 and 14 years old 15th birthday to come in June the summer of love was to come the following year so...

Hi Robert We do not offer instruction. Dave was my one congestion but hope to get more back from him than I give. He is a good bloke to have on your side. We have a good two way process going. As regards a wood frame in my set up wood is good in damping vibrations in the frame. All joints are dry an...

Hi Erik, and Robert. I know Erik wants to do flat glass cutting, Robert what type of cutting do you want to try? Right the cutting lathes you have been looking at are made for table ware glass or small panels. Think about it a large panel will catch the tops of the bearings. Unless you just want to ...

Hi I'm Here :P Dave check your emails. Dave how about 7 year vinyl must be very thin but hard to get off. When in the old days of hand cutting. the good old days. We used fablon one year it changed glue and left residue. to stop this we first applied a thin coat of whiteing and water let it dry. App...