Nice work Dave, very nice indeed! Those leaf shapes are difficult and on flashed glass you have to nail it on the first go. Where did you acquire your flashed glass? It appears to be quite even and I don't see a lot of bubbles. It appears to have been machine made and not hand blown. It would be gre...

I've got a Cutall.
I just buy my blades from McLogan's in L.A..

That magnetic material becomes "sick" over time. It degrades as the plastizer gases off much like the vinyl interior in your car, thus becoming brittle. I think it would be a good idea to apply a layer of good quality sign vinyl on the back side to prevent it from attaching to the cars pai...

Dave, If you are wheel cutting onto flat glass and then bending it, this may work for you. First cut and polish your wheeled areas. Then screen print your black linework while the glass is flat, with a low fire vitrious black enamel screen ink. Then place your glass in the kiln and slump in the oval...

Dave, Those panels are looking sweeter everytime I check in. I just finished wheel cutting a polished starburst into a beveled panel to replace an antique one that was broken by a film crew. The original bevel was quite old, it still had a reddish residue around the edges from the iron oxide polishi...

Dave,
Nice!! You are constantly honeing your use on embossing and brilliant cutting to a polished razor edge. The addition of the silver staining is the iceing on the cake. You have got a tremendous talent for embellishments.
I love the smell of hf in the morning!!

Thank you for the notice about Mucha. I was drawn to his art and art nouveau just before or at the same time I began delving into searching out french embossing. Both beckoned to me in a very familiar way that I have still not been able to pull up to the front of my brain. I don't believe in reincar...

Way to go Dave, looks good. I have never used or owner a plotter. All my designs have been done by hand painting or screen printing the resist. I do possibly see a plotter in my future. My white acid mixture described to me by Clark-Eaton Glass frosted the glass in one hour. Tilting the glass to rem...

Dave,
Great detective work.
Pat

The "pillowey" shape that results from placing the glass 'etch side down' into the acid is caused by the turbulance caused as the weightier silica granules unlock their bond from the glass and fall away causing the acid to circulate in and fill the void. It tends to create a sort of micro ...

Back in the early 80's I began my glass business in a one car garage beneath my $85.00 a month apartment. I was deeply involved with trying to learn how all the various tones and effects had been achieved in the antique acid embossed panels and bar backs that I had seen imported here from England. T...

Hold your horses! Before you stand up for 55 gallons. Henry's sells it in 1 gallon cans at Home Depot, Its not called asphaltum outright, but some "roofing" term like wet patch BUT WITHOUT THE ADDED FIBERIOUS STUFF that keeps it stuck to the base of your chimney because you waited 'till a ...

My feeling is that sonic cleaning will put great stress on the hair shafts and shred or break them off. I've operated sonic cleaners that disintigrate
hard paint off of metal like dust flying off. Maybe something less violent like a vibrator coil or counter weighted motor would be
plenty good.

Vance, I think it's that pure clean Oregon water, you need to come down here and try some L.A. water, it'll disolve away that 'ol glass dust. But seriously, several weeks back during our conversation, I mentioned that blasted glass will tend to relieve itself and continue to "shed" for a p...

William,
Please make no apologies. I had purchased a lot of decal related products and just haven't had the time to start experimenting. This site offers some exciting examples of original uses and methods.
Thank you for posting your finds.
Pat

Remember that the nature of acid etching is that it etches wider as it etches deeper, so your fine lines may eventually join before you obtain the desired depth. Deep etching fine lines with sandblasting also creates boundaries and limitations in that the fine lines will only etch as deep as the lin...

[quote="Duncan Wilkie"]Oh yes, here's another question(s). Would you duplicate them as faithfully as possible or would you "fix up' the lettering? I am going to hand letter them....no screen printing... would you cut in the background and gild (that's how the originals were done, or w...

Dave, I don't remember how the elements are designed or mounted in your kiln. If they are able to retain any of the chipped glue or glass fragments you should vacuum out any residual scraps or the glass chips may fuse to your elements at higher temperature which could shorten the life of them. Also,...

I tried to locate Brunswick Black because it was mentioned in many embossers books including Duthies book, Decorative Glass Processes, the title of which I chose to name my business after in 1980.
I located some in London and found it not to be worth a ....
Pat

NICE card Kelly,
Merry Christmas to all of us, what a GREAT group- and how lucky we are to share and enjoy our talents and knowledge and personalities.
Best wishes,
Pat and Peggy

Dave, Thank you.I noticed that the commercial premade tin consintrate I buy has a foamy quality to it.When i mixed up my own version last time it didn't have that quality to it.I was told it was a wetting agent.Yours doesn't seem to have it,is that right? Roderick Wetting agents (surfactants) will ...

Rod, If you find a second gun you should name it Johnnie! Frankie and Johnnie! In the meantime it is always good to stock a rebuild kit. Taking your gun apart if you have never done it yet, is a really good way to know how it works and can give you great knowledge on how to adjust it to the optimum....

Stumbled onto a load of great photos showing gilding, gilded wood carvings, 14th century Moorish Castles, gilded historic French cathedrals, statues and lots more. Historic places around the world. This guy must photograph as a living. Go to Flickr and search: Grufnik Check out his "seville&quo...

Larry,
I heard tell from John Studden that you may be headin' this way one weekend. I know you are serious about doing some cutting, so let's get together
and get something going. So consider yourself takin' the train to Monrovia, the "other" end of the line.

Pat

Dave,
You could cut some small rectangular holes into the sides of your kiln and fit in some thin quartz glass site holes.
They would allow you to check the progress without cracking open your kiln which drops your temperature everytime
you open it to peek.

Looks good Dave. Your glass piece appears to be about 1/4" thick. I bring my glass up to bending temperature in about 2 to 2.5 hrs. on a piece that size. Saves on electricity and speeds the job. I know that you don't want to thermal shock and break a piece that you have spent hours etching, eng...

Dave, Nice sign- great find! Glad it found a nice home with you. I'm thinking that it was solder sealed with lead because it was attached somewhere outdoors where it might be subjected a bit o' rain on occasion, possibly positioned under a porch or overhang. Have a look on the front, would be intere...

Sad news indeed. Sad for all who knew him. Glad that I had the opportunity to meet him and see in how high a regard he was spoken of by his fellow sign people. His reputation truely proceeded him, and I was not disappointed. No greater affect can a man leave in his travelings on this earth. A wealth...

I've seen my graphics guy grab any photo of a sign taken on an angle, or out of an old book and reconstrain it to appear as if it was taken dead on center, even if it was higher up on a building. Incredible to watch him do it. You can take any angled sign photo and use his method to reproduce it to ...

Screw the sports center and preserve the ghost signs! "Beware paradise, put up a parking lot!!" Joni Mitchell I would like to devise a coating to paint onto ghost signs that would allow transfering the weathered brick and paint surface to another surface and then dissolve away the water ba...