There Is A Good Reason For Safety Procedures
I do have safety procedures when I work at my bench, but sometimes I get a bit careless. As I found out the other day and ended up with a dreadlock in my hair and nearly scalped.
Modifying a Standard Tile Saw for Glass
As usual, being on a budget, when it came to buying a tile saw I opted to visit the local hardware and see what was on offer. A little unsure about exactly what I needed, as I hadn’t actually done any sawing of glass with a diamond saw, I looked over the various saws available. …
Purchased a Dual Tumbler
I used a tumbler for the first time at my last silver smithing class to polish the silver chain link bracelet I made. The tumbler seemed to polish my bracelet so quick. So I thought that I would do some research when I got home to find out about these tumblers. I spoke to Jeff …
At last, new shelving for the glass sheets.
A while back I mentioned that we were fortunate enough to purchase, at a very reasonable price, a large lot of Bullseye COE 90 sheet glass from a local business. As you would expect, our immediate problem was where to store it all.
Purchasing Tools For Silversmithing
Where to buy your silversmithing tools????? This is a good question, I have found that you can get silversmithing tools at reasonable prices from a couple of websites that are not jeweller suppliers . The only thing is that you do need to pay attention to the description of the tools you are buying and …
The Beetle Bits Glass Cutting Station
Just a quick post to show you our cutting station. This is where all of our glass is cut and prepared. When we started we didn’t have a cutting system and just cut directly on the table. If you look closely you will see a wooden ruler that I screwed to the table as a …
Our Studio
This is the first post of what I expect to be many about the evolution of our studio. We are learning so we do expect to be making changes to the studio as we discover what does and does not work for us. Having said that, we love our studio. It is our new playground …
Our Budget Workbench
This was actually a bigger problem than I expected. We needed a good sized workbench that was very solid and sturdy, and at the right height. The sizes was important because we needed enough room to have the cutting station but also area for project setup, kiln shelf preparation, general design work and what ever …
Building our Studio
Not sure if anybody is really interested, but thought I would post a little about building our studio. By the way, please excuse the photos. They were taken with an old iPhone. The studio is for working with glass, as in glass fusing, glass slumping and glass draping. It is also a work area for …