The party at CHG saturday night is worth going to. It's $20 to get in but all the beer and other drinks are free once you're inside and theres live music and some sort of food. Lots of glass folks,...

Fogo De Chao is awesome, all you can eat meat! stay away from the mini van sized salad bar cuz it'll just take up space and your paying for the real food (meat) not the rabbit food.

Chicago Hot...

Anyone who might be interested;

Chicago Hot Glass is starting to have lampworking classes and is currently looking for a couple of people to teach beginning level classes on minor burners.

I...

Misha,

If that's the Comfort Inn in elk grove then you practically accross the strret from the airport. There's probably a shuttle, Call the hotel to find out if & where.

We're having an open...

Who's going to be in the flameoff?

You can spray a soluble tin chloride/alcohol mix onto the glass while still hot.

You need killer ventilation or you will not be feeling well when your done playing around with that stuff!

How long is the sale going on for?

The shelf liners work great at 960f. I haven't tried them in my boro kiln but I put a few pieces in our color box on the brick and they flaked apart with-in a couple of months at 1020 to 1050f

Cool Idea, I like the idea of using my hands to work the glass more directly, but you'll find that the graphite fibers will break down faster at the heat of boro then if you just used it in the hot...

Thanks everyone!

Just to clarify, we are a glass studio (Chicago Hot Glass) so folks running around with 1000 degree glass would be on the cool side for us. We're just gonna start out with basic...

So the studio I work at is finally getting ready to have some beginning flameworking classes. For $$$ reasons we're starting small and setting up some minor torches until we get some cash to go...

I was in a ball glass plant about twenty years ago. They had a continuous furnace up by the roof maybe 40 feet up that dropped small blobs of molten glass down into a funnel. that got split in three...

Ed skeels has made a few robots, has one that cuts that bottoms off of lamp shades.

Make's decent, inexpensive basic pipes and puntys if you're into off hand work.

As I understand it. Pure silver will not go into solution properly and the O2 and nitrate add the the recipe.

Elio Quarisa goblet classes at Chicago Hot Glass

Chicago Hot Glass

Elio Quarisa is teaching TWO speciality goblet classes at Chicago Hot Glass!
The Classes are full day events (8 hours with a...

There's something like 1200 bars in this town, Almost all of us know somebody who works at or owns a bar. We just kept asking at different places and that's what we were able to get. 3 places gave us...

Yeah, we have a 3200 square foot shop and for much of the night you could barely move through the crowd. Way in the back by the big door there were bands set up to play and we went through 10 donated...

Big party over at Chicago Hot Glass last saturday and we had a huge crowd and made some serious cash to pay the bills! I hope anyone here who was able to make it enjoyed themselves. Here's a link to...

Sil-Flux is self fluxing, It's not a "no flux needed" thing. Without some sort of flux the solder will not stick to the copper. So in case it's crossed you mind, don't think using your silver fuming...

The costco deal involves a guy names Robert Kandi (I think) along with Rubino. What's pathetic about this whole thing is when you stop and think about the concept of sueing someone over designs it...

The work referred to in the lawsuit look almost duplicate to Chihulies work, I think it's the sea form series piece. Maybe dale should sue momma nature for shaping sponges and sea fans after his...

Chihuly. . . I don't really even want to get into that. Just say to those people "you like that? Check out Lino Tagliapietra (or insert your favorite artist here)" Try to educate them without making...

If you don't have the cash for a big mold you can make ring mold out of cherry or apple wood. You use gravity to get the basic shape and then slide the marb on the rim of the ring. keep em soaking in...

I sell mine at art/craft fairs for $25 to $35 depending on the end results, (size, design, ect.) not how long it took to make it. The few times I've wholesaled I went to 50% of that.

They usually...

If your paypal account is linked to your personal banking account you shouldn't need to transfer any money into it and then pay the fees after the auction out of the payment from your buyer, if they...