Love it....My hero Ivan Ellicott (Peterborough Ontario) sho-card writer, before I started my apprenticeship here in Ottawa, admired and showed me H.C.Martins books. With 30 or so years of reflection I can understand "Uncle Franks" frustration. Even today I notice a "trend" in sev...

Will do....and sorry has taken me a while to back to things in here. Have been installing a DVD burner and even though it's an HP there has been problems..... with video home movies etc etc to DVD. I'm sure you can imagine. All to say I haven't had the time to get out arround here either. The pup an...

Hi Mike and thanx. It will be a while before I get off to one of those extended photo shoots and will let ya know whatz what then. Okay now...rolled the camera over 2wice.....holy Mac...what on earth are you up to? I can't imagine how much time you're spending with photoshop!!

Hi again all......just today I found a message in my message box from a fellow head who asked... " I have to ask you where your design ideas come from, where do you look for inspiration? " and thought this was a good question to share, especially as this isn't the first time I've been aske...

One of the things I haven't yet worked out is the file numbering. When I switch from one card to next all the numbers start at the beginning again and almost lost a ton of stuff when I tried to place them all in the same folder. Where is or is there a way to change this! You guys have been a pile of...

Hi Joe...just to second what John has said and add that standing them off the backgnd is critical. Have seen very few(over there) that were not and usually in poor condition... glass gilded outlines were also very much in prominence. Look forward to seeing what you do!

Hi .. The use of the "nipper" is hard to describe although the secret is in how far in or out the "movable pointer/wedge" is relative to the glass. This is the time to experiment. If you get small crumbles on the edge move the pointer further out. You are likely to need to adjust...

Good show...and a riot to do ain't it!

Hi Jesper and to all. Am in the process of learning how to upload all this to my web site rather than have ol' Mike here going through the process. It was my intent to just share some great photo's from the UK that you may never have the opportunity to see. It never occured to me to host a site of t...

Dave...we did try and get lost in some alleys but saw nothing as wonderful as you describe. Back to the glass pieces (Stuarts)....I am still wondering about a back-up that is tough enuf to put up with the cleaning etc in advance of silvering..."he says scratching his head some more!"

Smitty.....Paris was amazing and the countryside beautiful beyond anything I was ready for. More on this later but a quick aside...as you can imagine I shot lots of foto's although they(signwriting) don't compare with the work in England. and So...that's how they did this work. It always amazes me h...

Dennis....I asume Danny has you straigntened out on the use of the "nipper" I use one often and the reply to your post will be tricky to write...if not post your progress here and will try and help out.

Smitty, I also love how much the traditional techniques are used. In particular how he does a mirror with gold letters and an outline only...as in the liquor pieces. I saw quite a few done this way when I was over your way these past few years and now finally you might be able to explain how this wa...

Hi Felix .... am honoured you requested info on a couple of pieces of mine. What you are seeing is "tinsel" Saw this at Glawson and Evans the first time out there and I also was fascinated by it. In the "spring Tonic" cover I did for David and Doc there was a glaze of ruby schell...

Just to note..This is amazing stuff being discussed and have been following closely. Have had a continuing interest in brilliant cutting and am just about ready to bust right now. Thanx Pat and Dave. For those who find this a bit "esoteric" brilliant cutting is the "carved" areas...

Carol...so howd you do that? That was the first place I went and plugged in the isbn number??? So sue me...I'm stupid!

Looks like an amazing book...thanx for the peek goldie and have gone to a favourite bookseller (on line) with no results...is time to refine the search and thanx again Studdley....good tip.

Studdley...an ISBN number from the reprint is in order here!!

A quick addition. The piece looks to be by the same craftsman as did the Old Blue Last and Victoria and a number of others we have seen...the Balmoral is another. Between Dave and I we should try and dig up a photo or two of that/those pieces. AND as always the work coming out of Smitty's shop is ou...

Hi again All.....That is an amazing glass piece and in fact I saw a few of that caliber in a similar state. It would have been installed arround 1890's by a company that was proud of the work and was a supplier to many pubs for brilliant cut and acid etched. There were several at the time that speci...

Yea...WOW. The ancients were amazing weren't they. That Bass glass piece was buried deeply in a hallway of a remarkable old pub called the "Viaduct" near St.Paul's Cathedral. The whole pub was breathtaking and yet was far from the most amazing I saw. Spent a week alone just running the str...

Bill...........wish I could help but arround here the quality of lumber is questionable and tend to search High and Low for the cuts I want/like. If it is any help a lumber yard will call "vertical grain" Quarter sawn although with the number of per annums under your belt am willing to bet...

Ray...Think it's a great idea using the silcon carbide abrasive and am willing to bet any probs are just related to the size of glass and distribution of the glue. It always seems arround here that the larger the piece the more we need to hustle through the steps...it sets(glue) at the same rate wea...

Good question....and would love to know. If no-one has an answer will try that one out myself this winter (slow time)

Danny B....the irrate client had been banned from the "piano parlour" or pub part of the restaurant and broke a few things amoung which was a glass piece about 2'x4' in the foyer! I had/have a second in the shop which was and is a habit of mine to make especially if there is drilling or ni...

Have seen only scant reports on news here (the cbc is on strike) and my heart goes out to all in that area.....was it T.H.Huxley who said we are all just 7 meals from anarchy and civilization is less than skin deep?....?

Terry....good hearing from you here again and loved a look at your kit. I might have to bribe someone to win that one for me!! As an old sho-card writer I never had a cool kit, although now that I have a few of the necessary woodworking skills (although not as good as Danny here) I might have to mak...

Kelly....a good question with a single answer (and you are right about the asphaltum method too!) it will be a mess of plinks and oysters and have seen this in person. One of the first times i tried it I didn't realise how quickly the glue sets-up ready for cutting and thought to leave it to get rea...

Kenneth...I have never tried any of the methods you are going to work on as they never were necessary for me. Glass, yes, is fragile but in the last 10 or so years I've had one glass piece broken by accident (a front door) and one by an irrate customer. So...firstly I would examine what I was trying...

Sept. 1st (ish) 1995 I would have just started an association with letterheads and be freshly back from 20 BigOnes!