The blend is around the lettered area only Danny , there is some blending in corners but it's very dark shades of black's and red's . The sign behind the Pilsner piece is for the side of my van Kelly , I have two of them ,they both will be fitted in soon . After two years of sitting on my lightbox. ...

Just finished this little sign. I made it from a piece which was for sale on ebay. I liked the look of the design and decided to make it for my collection. I used a tooth brush to create the fade from chemical silver to gold leaf. I silvered the the whole piece then rubbed away the bottom half with ...

I can post pictures at last!
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I posted a while back on glass silverstaining into brilliant cutting. It is process of painting glass with a specialist kiln paint then heating it to a temprature in a kiln to achieve a gold or amber colour. I sprayed the kiln paint onto the cuts to get an even coating of silverstain ,the only probl...

I also had alot of good times with John, He always was a bundle of laughs and always taking the mick!. We shared a room in 2004 for the Conclave at Valencia Signs .I could'nt get to sleep because of his loud snoring. Every morning for a week he was the first up and was making tea for Haydn and mysel...

Larry and Rodin my email is still the same as before- chapman_and_smith@btinternet.com Have you had trouble sending mail? Hope this works for you now. Gad to hear you sorted out the glass job Roderick, it's sometimes worth dropping the price a little but only If you really want to get stuck into som...

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How strange you should come across this site ,I have just started to get some orders for some decorative glue chipping and pub mirrors.
The company is in Bristol , UK and from what I can tell they seem to get involved with alot of old fashioned work.

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Yes Roderick the stain is fired then the residue of black powder is removed. But these photo's are just showing the stain they have not been silvered yet. I am hoping the silver will take and that no chemical inbalance between the two will take place. As for what the material is made of I will try t...

I have been experimenting over the last few days with silver staining and have had some great results ,so I thought I would share them here with you guy's .Silver staining is the effect you would see on cut glass and in church windows around the UK mainly being used at the turn of the century. they ...

Thanks for Mentioning my workshop Wayne! And thanks to you Larry for placing up them phot'o's. we had a good time making this letter the techniques came out well and really pinged the letter out of the glass. I have 2 more workshops at the end of this month so looking forward to them. I also plan to...

Great job Doug! You and Larry will be fighting over this type of work from now on.

Nice piece!

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I Like the new look Mike. What a difference at 600 pixels. Great work!
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Nice work Larry. Would of liked to have made that meet ,maybe next year

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Your way of chipping sounds good simalar to a lightbox with consistant heat over the area. I have friend in Santa Cruz by the name of Steve Kersey his website is www.kerseyglass.com some great information on chipping on this site .He has a big room set up like I stated in my last post ,he chips all ...

Yes no probs Kelly Fire away. If I can'nt answer them some one on here will

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Hi Sarah. I definetly thinks there is a difference. On talking with Pat recently about some old signs I had bought he was explaining the difference in the glass they had used and the way they made it. I won't explain it here but hopefully Pat could step in on this subject. Also John Studden was doin...

OK Now after all that hospital stuff. A year ago I had a skiing accident in France , still after a year and a re-construction of my left Cruciate Ligarment I managed to catch a skin bug infection in the knee which hospitalized me over the last weekend. I 'm Better now after all them drugs and nurses...

Sorry about that. I need to check in abit more often with this site.Been a bit busy here folks. My chipping is going great, I can now control what it does even though I always steer for a fern chip with just small amounts of sandblast showing. I think the key to succesful chipping is keeping the glu...

Nice work Cam! Keep it going.

Doug, Sorry I missed your post on the question about the correct Black paint to use on silvering mirrors. I spoke with Stuart today and asked him what he uses. He said in the past he had used a fast drying enamel which you could only spray on, he also said black humbrol enamels(craft paint) could wo...

Hi Keith. I pour on the solution silver rather than spray, like Mike as stated you need an extracting system for spray silvering,You don'nt want to be breathing this stuff in (Not nice stuff!) . You also need a good silvering gun and set up for the silver solutions to run down into your gun. The gun...

Look forward to seeing what you come up with Doug. Did you manage to get lost down any side streets in Paris where you find all the reverse glass work? I remember my wife and I went to Paris on our honeymoon we did all the site seeing tours Euro Disney etc. Most of the photo's I took were of signs.W...

Hi Doug. Glad to see your back from Paris mate. The gold letters you see as you no are brilliant cut. Stuart would have cut and then polished the letters and outline them with black enamel paint then he would have water gilded them and finally backed them up from the chemical silver which he sprays ...

I have been wanting to post some photo's of Stuart Norton's cut glass work for the past month. Stuart as been helping me for the past couple of years in learning this craft . I wanted to involve brilliant cutting into my own glass work .Stuart's knowledge and skill on this lost art is outstanding ,h...

I think what ever you come up with Larry will work real nice. Would be good to tackle the pictorial by scanning the image at high res possibly on a specialists scanner to get the detail then screening the image leaving a real fine printed image ready for colour blends. All depending on the original ...

I think what ever you come up with Larry will work real nice. Would be good to tackle the pictorial by scanning the image at high res possibly on a specialists scanner to get the detail then screening the image leaving a real fine printed image ready for colour blends. All depending on the original ...

Hi Felix. The centers on the Camelot glass are Damar embossed . The swirling design was made using a fork and the occasional use of a brush handle.There are other tools you can use to get all-sorts of effects. On the Bull and Brush glass the letters were deep blasted . They are blasted very deep, ne...

Pat .I tried dressing the wheel with the silicon carbide and it as worked really well. Thanks for the tip ! Let me no when you start making your wheels. Good luck with that idea Pat.



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I remember talking with you Pat about the puddle wheels a few years ago. I have several of these wheels in my studio, I have been using the pinky stones since I started ,one favourite stone I use nearly all the time is about 24 '' in diamater and 2'' thick cuts great but I do occasionally get the gl...

I'm not certain but I don't think there is any sort of training school on this type of work in the uk. I took an interest in brilliant cutting for the reason of adding dimension and another effects to my glass signs, On some of the early 1900 work you can see lots of acid etching along with gilded a...