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Hi guys.
Just finished four little glass panels of brilliant cutting into flashed blue glass.
I have only everdone star bursts which are straight forward with mitre cuts, these four were difficult to make due to the shapes of the leaves and the size of them. I made a few mistakes with one panel but got used to it after number four.The red panels were made for the same door surround. bit of a learning curve using puntie wheels.
My first one took a while Kelly ,by the time I had worked out which wheels I wanted to use it was about 4 hours cutting and 3 hours polishing the others were a little quicker. the star bursts are easy. I use a diamond wheel for these, they rip the glass out real quick then I change to a stone wheel and finally polish them with mdf and felt wheels They still take a little time but you have to be careful with the diamond wheels as the speed of the diamond will take away the blue flashed coating very quickly ,plus its hard to know where to start with the cuts due to the darkness of the colour. I put a light under the wheel to help a little, I think I could speed up if I was doing it all the time .The job was for English Heritage . Nice to do this sort of work from to time to time.
Dave
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 great to do multi-staged acid
etching on that glass.
Thanks Pat. I bought the glass from a company in London part of the Liverpool group of Pearsons Glass they specialise in all the church glass and unusual glass makes. here is there link http://www.pearsonsglass.com/ They told me it is hand made in France the glass has bubbles and lines in it you can not see it in the photo .The maker of the glass is by saint-gobain I think. It looks hand made to me ,thick and thin in places.
Dave
Nice Job there Dave-
It was seeing some starbursts in an office doorway that first got me looking at Glass decoration, but those leaves are something else!!
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