OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Ron Percell on March 29, 2003 The earliest known recipe specifically for enamel is a Latin treatise on alchemy written in an English early 14th century hand, Sloane MS #1754 in the British Museum3. Formula 231, "Ad facendum emallum, etc.", has been translated: To ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Bob on March 30, 2003 At the last Conclave, The glue Rick had made up was red, and made it very easy to see where it was going. Does anyone know what Rick added to the glue to get the red color? Thanks Bob Mike Jackson - Glue Chip Glue Part 2 Danny Barronian forwarded this ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on March 30, 2003 Rick gave John Jordan a few of his techniques, often hand written and photocopied. John recently transcribed his notes to a text document and forwarded them. He is supposed to be sending photocopies of the rest of the techniques. I have a pack...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Matt Walker on March 30, 2003 Hi, Do any of you know the future of the Commonwealth products?. Also, The future of the fine golds back up. Matt Walker Kent Smith Those are tied up in the probate with everything else but the brothers both have expressed an interest in being ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on March 31, 2003 http://www.theletterheads.com/glawson/rickteaching.jpg I had enough time over the weekend to build a few new pages for Rick Glawson. It is far from finished, but you can get the idea. It will include some of his techniques, tips and other tidb...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Larry White on March 31, 2003 A gentlman by the name of Russ Mascieri conducts Victorian Trade Card Auctions. He posts some of the cards on his website. He also usually prints up a very nice catalog that litteraly has scads of beautiful artwork and layouts. These catalogs a...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Bob LeDoux on March 31, 2003 After trying to contact Rick Glawson for some time, I contacted Mike Jackson & heard that he had passed away. Rick was quite talented and helped us with chipped glass, smalts, and gilding. Our deepest sympathy to his family & friends. Bo...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by D.Bernhardt on March 31, 2003 Hi folks....read something earlier mentioned and will bow to Dave Smiths experience here but i might as well add a bit to the discussion this far. Have read about this process and is actually called White acid and also French embossing or Frenc...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 01, 2003 http://www.signweb.com/fabrication/images/gildertips2.jpg I was searching around this morning and found this page on Signweb's site (part of an old Signs of the Times article) It has some pretty good information, and well worth bookmarking. Mi...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Nicole Black on April 01, 2003 Can anyone offer any advice concerning over spray problems when working with 1 Shot through an airbrush on Polybanner material. Botches of paint develop all over the banner in unwanted areas when spraying. I rubbed it down with a static cling ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by David A. McDonald on April 02, 2003 With regard to the sand smaltz that was offered at Esoteric sign supply--Rick carried the "broadcast medium" architectural aggregate from Estes. After perusing the web site that Mike posted earier it became clear to me. Also--I ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by John Grenier on April 02, 19103 at 10:05:49: What a blow to signmakers, Rick was a friendly fountain of knowledge. In 1988 my wife and I moved from Austin to South Bay area for her graduate studies and I went about trying to get some sign work. It didn't take long to wind u...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 02, 2003 http://www.goldenstudios.com/temp/stand.jpg Here's a couple of additional products Rick sold: The stand above is made by Baronian Mfg and are still available directly from him. Danny also made the edge chippers for Rick and he is still making ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Robert Beverly on April 02, 2003 I have been doing some checking on sources for product and have spoken with Blue Sun...They are out of business as of April 31st with the new owners possibly picking up their line but they are actually the distributor for Aqua Blue Maui out ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Mike Jackson - A photo from Doug...and how to load photos to the net (Sorry. Could not place image. Broken link?) Howdy gang, Doug sent me a photo tonight. Since he doesn't have a web site to upload his photos to, he wasn't sure how to do it. Just to see how hard it was, I went to ww...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 02, 2003 Hi gang, I have been working on a few more items that Rick sold. Some were available at hardware stores, grocery stores and so forth, but Rick bought supplies to make it easy for the average sign person to stay in the shop and work...just plac...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Dan Sawatzky on April 02, 2003 I'm a total novice when it comes to gold work and indeed many aspects of the conventional sign trade. But wielding a brush is large and important part of my work as a muralist and themed environment designer/builder. And I do the occasional ha...

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Posted by Mike Jackson on April 03, 2003

Check out this page linked below. You might find it informative.

Mike Jackson

Smalt History (as pigment)
http://webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/o ... smalt.html

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Tony Segale on April 04, 2003 Some friends of mine purchased a canoe made of kevlar, asked for a name lettered on it. I designed flowing leaf type letters for the Indian name "Rontu" (meaning fox eyes). Prepared the pattern, prepped the canoe, applied a base coat ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Rescue Pearl Co on April 04, 2003 I am a distibutor for shell materials. Veneer, laminates and shell blanks. I distibute for the same source supplier as Rick Glawson. Chuck his friend and supplier asked me to let the letterhead folks know where they can get some material. I...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Bill Masters on April 04, 2003 I contacted Sherwin Williams and they still make asphaltum,the smallest container you can buy is 5 gallons,so go to your friendly neighborhood Sherwin Williams and ask for Black Asphaltum #V74B2 and they will order it.I ordered 5 gallons today...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 04, 2003 http://www.theletterheads.com/glawson/lola2.jpg Hello everyone, I just hung up the phone from a nice conversation with Lola. She seems to be in pretty darned good spirits right now. She has been helping all the collectors get their pieces out ...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 04, 2003 http://www.glasscolor.com/catalog/colors/images/R192.jpg Well, I have been on the trail of the colored glass smalt(s) or frit. Danny Baronian and David McDonald have been very instrumental in leading the way on this one, but I am quite certain...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 05, 2003 http://www.theletterheads.com/glawson/angeltitleimage.jpg Last night, I created three pages for theletterheads.com, in the Glawson section, from a July 1988 interview by Tod Swormstedt at Signs of the Times with Rick Glawson. The article was a...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 05, 2003 Lee Littlewood sent me a paper he had written following the 2001 Conclave. Rick Glawson taught a seminar on the subject and fortunately for us, Lee took excellent notes! These notes are now included in the Rick Glawson section. In case you are...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 05, 2003 The two paragraphs below come from a paper Rick Glawson wrote on the Smalts process. It was forwarded to me by John Jordan, one of many he collected from Rick over the years. I'll try to retype the entire thing someday, but for now, this infor...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 06, 2003 Hello again, Kimberly Zanetti stayed up late again last night and typed out Rick's written paper on his Glue Chip on Glass technique. I changed all the copy this morning and the page is fully functional. Someday, maybe I can add photos. The li...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 06, 2003 http://www.theletterheads.com/signphotos/bullbrush.jpg Here's a sign Dave Smith forwarded to me. The size is 5'x3'6. He says he spent about 150 hours on this one. Beautiful! Mike Jackson Raymond Chapman Beautiful! is a good word, but just does...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 07, 2003 Two new documents, written by Rick Glawson, have just been added to his section on this site. The last two additions are his "Treatise on Gold Size" and "Osmalto". Information on Decals, Glue Chipping, and his Angel Gild st...

OLD FORUM POSTS Posted by Mike Jackson on April 07, 2003 I just added one more section under the Features button of the left navigation bar on TheLetterheads.com. You can go directly to it from the link below. We have been able to add some nice new pages under Rick Glawson's feature section. I'd lik...