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View Poll Results: How old is to old to make beads
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60 yrs
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65 yrs
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70 yrs
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75 yrs
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80 yrs
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6 feet under
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2011-01-26, 5:59pm
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Hot Glass Neophyte
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Let's see, before the flood people lived to be 900, so we are just Spring Chickens at 90 if you take that into perspective!
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2011-01-27, 10:17am
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Senior Member
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Location: Ohio
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Until I can't anymore. I am in my early forties and am hoping for at least another forty years lol.
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2011-01-27, 5:40pm
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I'll join you in your dream Sharon ... ha ha!
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2011-01-28, 10:23pm
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Senior Member
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Until I can only afford one oxygen concentrator and I need it to breathe!
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2011-01-29, 12:19am
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 18, 2005
Location: Jacksonville Beach, FL
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Too old???
I have an 80 year old student who has fused glass for years, and is doing a fantastic job making beads. I'm only 54, she inspires me so much!!!
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Jacksonville, FL
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2011-01-29, 2:49am
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picking Job's Tears
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Given that I bought my first hothead when I was 52, you can guess the rest
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2011-01-29, 5:59am
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Eugene, Oregon
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My Mother is Water Color Artist, still going strong. When the hand started shaking she just incorporated it in to her "New Style" Her work is beautiful now and always.
Blessings.
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Cheers from Nancy Gant
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2011-01-29, 12:52pm
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I like the 6ft under too! lol I'm over 60 and will continue until my eyes/hands fail me, however, I'll be on the look out for my beads/work to start resembling things like I was making after only a day or two on a torch....that would be an excellent indicator of time to shut the flame off. But then again? if my eyes are failing me? I won't know the difference..is that a win-win or a lose-lose situtation?
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2011-01-30, 5:15pm
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one day at a time
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Parkinson
when YOU don't feel safe any more apart from that 6 feet under
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ditto
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2011-01-31, 1:06am
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Senior Member
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GASP!
The instruction book that came with my new oxycon says
"Do not operate if no body breathing."
KMD
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2011-01-31, 1:46am
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lissette
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Location: i come from the nederlands
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I really think you're to old when you sitting at you're torch about a half hour,
wite you're doll in you're hand and says pretty thing i made ha .Then its really really time to quit
no torching has no age when you feeling good and you have fun,then burn
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2011-01-31, 5:54am
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Eugene, Oregon
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KMD..
That is so flippin funny. I guess that would be the time... when no body is breathing... LOL
Thanks for the laugh.
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Cheers from Nancy Gant
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2011-01-31, 9:26pm
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Sheila Davis Designs
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Location: Olympia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SharonP
When my eyes start to go and my hands start to shake, I'll start calling my designs 'Artisan' and will totally go with the Funky Look!
I've probably mentioned this before, but I have a Dream - the Senior Beadmakers Retirement Home.
Where every day super-hunky guys without shirts wheel us in to our torches and we melt glass & create, and the public comes in droves to sit in the bleacher seating and look at the giant screens and marvel at our Amaze-osity and buy every stinkin' thing we make.
And when we're done, the Boys Without Shirts wheel us to chef-cooked dinner, and after dinner we have a whoopin' good time in the bar.
Just a dream... unless we all want to start a fund to make it happen? Hmmmmmmmmmm????
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I'm in!! Sounds great to me.
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2011-02-01, 5:15am
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BeadsonCypress
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You are kidding, right????
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7+ years and growing - Mini-CC and O2 generator
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2011-02-01, 5:32am
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Help i am on fire
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Location: in the woods
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i have shaky hands so i figure that will do me in, but i will fight hard before i give up.
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2011-02-01, 10:27pm
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I say for as long as you love it, or in my case I am going down and making two beads a day and then soaking my arm in hot water (long story on the dot thread, I'll spare ya)! As long as I can make ONE bead then I won't care that I am not down there for 5 hours. This question is really hitting home with me not because of age but health.
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2011-02-01, 10:40pm
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I'm a lilac!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bead-meltdown
i have shaky hands so i figure that will do me in, but i will fight hard before i give up.
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Nah... that's just when you switch to organics!
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2011-02-03, 6:52pm
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One of my very good friends started making beads when she was 82 and she only makes dichroic beads!!! She is amazing and so are her beads.
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2011-02-08, 2:42am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SharonP
When my eyes start to go and my hands start to shake, I'll start calling my designs 'Artisan' and will totally go with the Funky Look!
I've probably mentioned this before, but I have a Dream - the Senior Beadmakers Retirement Home.
Where every day super-hunky guys without shirts wheel us in to our torches and we melt glass & create, and the public comes in droves to sit in the bleacher seating and look at the giant screens and marvel at our Amaze-osity and buy every stinkin' thing we make.
And when we're done, the Boys Without Shirts wheel us to chef-cooked dinner, and after dinner we have a whoopin' good time in the bar.
Just a dream... unless we all want to start a fund to make it happen? Hmmmmmmmmmm????
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Now THAT is my idea of retirement. Let me know when you open the home Sharon, I'll be there to sign up.
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Lynx, Midrange, Scorpion Regalia Oxycon
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2014-07-24, 9:00am
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hyperT
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Old?
I'm 70 yrs old now. I started my apprenticeship in the family at the age of 9. The first thing I ever made artistically was an elephant. I often wish I had kept track of how many I've made over the years. They still remain a popular item.
I figure another 60 yrs of so I will get pretty good at it.
I will probably die at the lamp, but what a waste of fuel.
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2014-07-24, 9:26am
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We'll, I am 86 and my answer is not yet. I did give up horseback riding, though. Carole
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2014-07-24, 10:17am
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Shop Gnome to Earth & Sky
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I would think that untill I am no longer safe with the molten glass or torch flame, I'll be ok.
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2014-07-25, 3:53am
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Senior Member
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Artistic License
Now THAT is my idea of retirement. Let me know when you open the home Sharon, I'll be there to sign up.
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Me too! Since I don't have kids to "take care of me", I always thought I'd "adopt" me a pool boy, but hunky bead boys sound just as good.
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2014-07-30, 8:05am
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Junior Member
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When you start participating in moronic polls.
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2014-08-06, 6:45am
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addicted to dichro
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hyperT
I'm 70 yrs old now. I started my apprenticeship in the family at the age of 9. The first thing I ever made artistically was an elephant. I often wish I had kept track of how many I've made over the years. They still remain a popular item.
I figure another 60 yrs of so I will get pretty good at it.
I will probably die at the lamp, but what a waste of fuel.
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Love this! I started at 15, I'm hoping my eyes and lungs hold out as long as I do, I've been told by some that with all the proper safety precautions just because of the nature of glass work that they won't. Hopefully that's not true.
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2014-08-06, 7:23am
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hyperT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mandyjw
Love this! I started at 15, I'm hoping my eyes and lungs hold out as long as I do, I've been told by some that with all the proper safety precautions just because of the nature of glass work that they won't. Hopefully that's not true.
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I think it would depend on the individual. My uncle worked well into his 80's, when he just decided to quit.
The guy never wore didymium glasses and said the bright sodium yellow flare off is a natural color your eyes can handle, and he was one of the best scientific glass blowers in the world. Go figure, I wear them. I like to see what I'm doing.
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2014-08-08, 6:03am
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SCIENCE Teacher!
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I vote for "if can't see where the flame is"
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2014-08-08, 9:37am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jonibird
And remember, 60 ain't what it used to be! Really!
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Yip, we are the new generation that didn't grow up. 60 is now the mind set of a 30 year old, especially in my case. I had a major wreck when hit by car while riding bicycle last year and it to me 6 months to learn to make beads again with 30% use of one arm now, and I have no reason to quit yet, and I'll be 57 this fall.
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2014-08-08, 9:38am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by carole
We'll, I am 86 and my answer is not yet. I did give up horseback riding, though. Carole
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I think I am in love, 86, wow.
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2014-08-08, 5:36pm
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My mum is 93 and a huge inspiration for her 8 children. I'm second youngest. She still does beading, embroidery, fantastic cards every single day. If I'm still playing with glass at that age I'll be absolutely ecstatic! 86 Carole? You GO girl!!
Caitie
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