Well its first post for me
where to start.
been interested in glass for awhile now, got lucky on craigslist where someone was selling off there whole setup. Ended up getting 2 torches in the deal ones a midrange looks like
http://www.artglass1.com/midranger.htm maybe an older model or something and a smaller torch which I havent been able to identify.
I'm using an oxygen tank and propane at first I was using something like 10 psi propane with 20 oxy then I droped to 5 psi propane and 10 oxy which seems to work a lil better. One of the problems I'm running into is that some of the ports are partially clogged is it a good idea to take this thing apart? (the midrange that is)
Ended up taking a 2 day class grabbing a bunch of books and reading like mad. did all kinds of searching online for more info ran across this place
started lurking here.
Initally the first few creations I made could be kindly called blobs with random color
so I tried and tried went thru a few tanks of oxy hmm reminds me gotta refill the tank
So at this time I can make some blobs of glass and color that can actually pass as pendants of sorts.
So I got about 12 presentable pieces which I sorta did the flame anneal/crock pot thing still a few cracked :/ yeh I have a kiln/annealer still havent messed with it. Its one of those with and infinite dial thingy so I've been looking into gettig a controller for it. still havent amassed enough info to make an educated decision on one. So I might have to bite the bullet grab a book throw my stuff in the kiln and tweak the dial every so often for a few hours to get the stuff annealed. Hmm at what temp does boro pick up texture from the what ever its layed on? at what temp does it stick to other boro?
With the whole package deal I ended up getting about 10 sticks of different colors in various lengths bought some random colors(mainly northstar), basically using random colors in my pendants been mainly worried about getting some glass into a pendant like shape then what colors I've been using so I can say from a certainty some color where not meant to go together
So I start hunting for color rods so I find northstar, Precision,momkas, glasss alchemy, damm wheres a winning lottery ticket when yeh need one
from the "where to buy the latest boro colours?" I found
http://www.glasscolor.com/products/d...D=117&pID=1493 where there selling Precision "Bundles weigh approx 1.7 kilos. Included is 27 colors (2 canes of each color)." for $150.50 which I'm debating on getting also found
http://www.artglass1.com/northstar-glass-r.htm.
anyone know where else there bundle deals I would prefer the 20" rods.
The newb
