I need some help with a glass blowing project, pls

Hi,

I want to use ordinary art glass and blow large thin bubbles / balloons .
as big as possible. I need to use ordinary art glass to get the colors I
want. bubbles need not be of any size, but thin as possible wall.

I will smash the bubbles as soon as I blow then.

thks
bg


--
"Poor people have access to the courts in the same sense that Christians had
access to the lions."

- Judge Earl Johnson Jr.

"Boner the Cat" wrote in message
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Hi,

I want to use ordinary art glass and blow large thin bubbles / balloons .
as big as possible. I need to use ordinary art glass to get the colors I
want. bubbles need not be of any size, but thin as possible wall.

I will smash the bubbles as soon as I blow then.

So why go to all the bother to blow them? There's a guy sellling a frit
crusher on eBay.......

this is not for frit and I have a frit crusher and screener that gives me
five different size of frit.
(homemade frit crusher is piece of axel from ford f350 and 3 inch pipe.)

"Moonraker" wrote in message
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"Boner the Cat" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I want to use ordinary art glass and blow large thin bubbles / balloons
..
as big as possible. I need to use ordinary art glass to get the colors I
want. bubbles need not be of any size, but thin as possible wall.

I will smash the bubbles as soon as I blow then.

So why go to all the bother to blow them? There's a guy sellling a frit
crusher on eBay.......

In article , Boner the Cat wrote:

this is not for frit and I have a frit crusher and screener that gives me
five different size of frit.
(homemade frit crusher is piece of axel from ford f350 and 3 inch pipe.)

Okay, one way that you could do this would be:

- cut some rod into pieces perhaps 1-2 inch long
- put them somewhere to get up to in the vicinity of 950 degrees F
- get your pipe hot
- get a thin clear collar on the pipe (gather a little glass and blow it
in the furnace--yes, in the furnace, then true up the collar and hole
a little at the bench)
- get the collar hot
- pick up a lump of color
- heat it in the furnace and shape the color
- heat it up again till you like the softness
- blow

If you're just going to bust the bubble, there's no point in jacking it--just
break it into a container of some kind like a bucket. If you want a larger
bubble, just keep adding pieces of color till you have as much as you need.

What are you trying to do, by the way? You can get some interesting
effects by doing an overlay/underlay and spinning it out into a rondel.
Then you can either sandblast the exposed color in a pattern, so
you have a multicolored piece, or just break it up for pieces with one
color on each side.

Mike Beede

"Mike Beede" wrote in message
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In article , Boner the Cat
wrote:

this is not for frit and I have a frit crusher and screener that gives
me
five different size of frit.
(homemade frit crusher is piece of axel from ford f350 and 3 inch pipe.)

Okay, one way that you could do this would be:

- cut some rod into pieces perhaps 1-2 inch long
- put them somewhere to get up to in the vicinity of 950 degrees F
- get your pipe hot
- get a thin clear collar on the pipe (gather a little glass and blow it
in the furnace--yes, in the furnace, then true up the collar and hole
a little at the bench)
- get the collar hot
- pick up a lump of color
- heat it in the furnace and shape the color
- heat it up again till you like the softness
- blow

If you're just going to bust the bubble, there's no point in jacking
it--just
break it into a container of some kind like a bucket. If you want a
larger
bubble, just keep adding pieces of color till you have as much as you
need.

What are you trying to do, by the way? You can get some interesting
effects by doing an overlay/underlay and spinning it out into a rondel.
Then you can either sandblast the exposed color in a pattern, so
you have a multicolored piece, or just break it up for pieces with one
color on each side.


Perhaps attempting to make something like Bullseye's "confetti"???

Some of the glass companies will sell shards or confetti but if you have a
kiln and are willing to build a small glory hole, you can make it yourself.
Basically, preheat the glass in the kiln, heat the end of a pipe, which can
be just 1/4" NTP water pipe, to red, stick the glass, heat it more in the
glory hole, shape it roughly on a kiln shelf or chunk of steel, get it hot
again and blow until it breaks or you like the thinness you have achieved -
shatter it over newspaper to catch the fragments, plunge the stuff remaining
on the pipe in a bucket of water, repeat.

--
Mike Firth
Hot Glass Bits Furnace Working Website
http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/hotbit46.htm Latest notes

"Boner the Cat" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I want to use ordinary art glass and blow large thin bubbles / balloons .
as big as possible. I need to use ordinary art glass to get the colors I
want. bubbles need not be of any size, but thin as possible wall.

I will smash the bubbles as soon as I blow then.

thks
bg


--
"Poor people have access to the courts in the same sense that Christians
had
access to the lions."

- Judge Earl Johnson Jr.

suzilem wrote:


Perhaps attempting to make something like Bullseye's "confetti"???

That's what it sounds like to me. The confetti is quite expensive and if
you use System96, like I do, you have no choice but to make your own or
have someone make it for you.
--
Jack


http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/xmissionbobo/

Hi Jack ( probably have fbi/ fatherland security on my doorstep by noon)
you got it in one, I use spectrum fusing glass and want to make my own
confetti.

thks for your help, I have never blown a pieces of glass, lots of fusing and
make my own stringers.

best regards
Brian




"nJb" wrote in message
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suzilem wrote:


Perhaps attempting to make something like Bullseye's "confetti"???

That's what it sounds like to me. The confetti is quite expensive and if
you use System96, like I do, you have no choice but to make your own or
have someone make it for you.
--
Jack


http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/xmissionbobo/

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:06:21 GMT, Boner the Cat wrote:
Hi Jack ( probably have fbi/ fatherland security on my doorstep by noon)
you got it in one, I use spectrum fusing glass and want to make my own
confetti.

I don't remember where I read it, and I've never tried it, but I once saw
a suggestion for making confetti using just your kiln. The idea was to
set a piece of glass on top of a "grid" composed of a few nichrome wires
placed parallel to each other and about 3/4" or so apart, then slump it.

How thin the resulting pieces will be is heavily dependent on the inside
height of your kiln and on how close the wires are to each other.