Hi! I have glass tubes filled with liquid CO2 at high pressure and need to make it safe in case the tube explodes. Currently I put it in a protective polycarbonate tube, but I'm worried the PC might not last long enough. Some of the tubes might be in use for 100+ years. They are meant to be viewed...

Willoughby and Baltic in Somerville, MA will be expanding its course offerings to include beadmaking, lampworking, stained glass, glass blowing, fusing/slumping, mosaics and neon. Our glass studio is expected to be up and running by the late summer/early fall of 2009. If you are an experience...

HI Folks My usual weapon of choice is a temperature-controlled Weller 100W iron - which works very well for tiffany-style suncatchers, tealights and so on. Recently, I've been getting more commissions for copper-foil-based window / door panels - with correspondingly longer seams to be...

Hi, all, I have tried using Patina on copper-foil pieces, but wasnt' all that impressed with it. I do know that metal paint (specifically, Rustoleum brand enamels) seem to totally seal the surface AND are just about indestructable. Tghe "hammered metal" finishes look pretty decent. Also,...

Wanted to show off my new sci-fi pendants, using dichroic glass and watch parts... www.thewatchman.etsy.com

Hello, I was recently informed that once a kiln is used for ceramics, it can not be used for glass: is this true???? Thanks in advance Larry

I have two pieces, both made by me 30 years ago; one is a copper-foil window and the solder is as shiny as the day it was made. The other is a lamp with zinc came soldered together and it is grey and dull, both zinc aznd solder alike. Any ideas why the difference?

I am wanting to slump glass. I would like to know where I can learn all of the processes whether it be a school, a book, the web ???? thank you in advance for any info. Larry

Brett Pierce and Jeanne Menafo created this goblet for the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Silent Auction please visit us @ http://mag.rochester.edu/gala/gala_auction.html Urban Wall Please visit us and share...

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I am going to start clearing out "stuff", be it equipment that does n't get used enough, glass that is really great, but I have no particular use for, or old lamp molds, which haven't gone over real big lately. Currently I have a Denver wheel Engraver, about 15 years old, but almost no actual...

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How on eareth do you tell the difference between real beach glass and glass that someone polished in a rock tumbler???

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Howdy: I'm planning an experimental apparatus. The part that i am asking about here is a seal between a borosilicate chamber (with an inch or so diameter opening) and small diameter metal tube. The chamber will be evacuated by an adsorbent and may pull a very decent vacuum, I'm not sure how...

I was thinking about how to slump a large diameter tube from a flat plane of glass. I have little experience with glass working and dont know to what degree this is workable... You'd take a piece of float glass, from like a window and slump it over a ceramic tube you made/found as a form. Put it...

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I am going through about 1,000 pounds of mostly URO, BULLSEYE (not sorted for COE90), YOGO and of course Spectrum. Spring cleaning my shop from about 25 years of lampshade making. Very little cathedrals, mostly opals, some irids, Will send broken odd sized pieces and ends Will cut strips one...

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