Bevels...by the inch

What quantities? How fast of service? That may alter the prices you have to pay. I get $2.00 inch....but I "mostly" only bevel to make replacement pieces for repairs.

Now that I have a video tape, that is. :>)

$2 / inch sounds pretty good to me.

I'm doing a couple dozen at a time, with a two day turnaround.

Three days if I've been goofing off, watching this wierd videotape I traded for Beefeaters instead of working.

~s

well, Beefeaters can't be better than a fine bottle of wine and/or a check... ?? then again perhaps the right video could help me pass the time till they arrive... m

Are you a beveler? Or are you wanting to have some done?

J -

I'm beveling. Not on a full-time commercial scale (I worked a college summer in a midwest beveling sweatshop and didn't much care for being chained to that wheel), but as a portion of my leaded / etched / carved art glass business. Bought the gear just to add custom pieces to my own work, but quickly found other glassworkers at my door.

~s

over-the-counter

????

You should have gotten the check by now. Let me know if it doesn't come today or tomorrow. I can send another...

As to the whine....well, I carefully dehydrated it to save on shipping costs. Just add 750 ml. of cold water to the contents of the envelope and enjoy.

You are taking in homeless glassworkers?

Yes, it's true. They're more polite and less depressed, in general, than the watercolor artists I used to house.

But now I can never find the band-aids. And I've had to put a lock on the liquor cabinet.

Plus, yesterday one of them copper foiled a nice loaf of sliced rye bread my wife had just brought home. Think he used 7/32" foil, which helped avoid that heavy, over-leaded look we see so often.

~s

OK, with that sense of humor, are you anywhere nearTampa?

Does that mean we should add Tampa to our "avoid at any cost" list of locations? ;>)

I'm about an hour and a quarter south of Tampa (but still on the Gulf Coast), in Venice. We're the less-heralded southern tip of Sarasota County.

There's a common saying around here:

When people get really old, they move to Sarasota...and their parents move to Venice.

Which doesn't quite make us "The Land of the Walking Dead," (which is Lauderdale, I think), but it does mean that most of my clients are fond of art nouveau...because they were on hand when it was new.

~s

Care to share your info, for those needing a beveller in the southern edge of the world? Are you actively seeking other studio glass clients ?

I do know of the fellow in Riverview, quite a good beveller, and you have a storefront operation? I used to go through there alot, by my message pad, I may be again soon.

J -

That'd have to be Calvin, right? Now THAT was one hell of a storefront op - tons of open workspace, large clean benches, huge showroom. Had his bevel slave in back, equipped with nice gear seemingly in good shape and a huge stereo. Cal is quite a colorful character and, as you said, really talented. Plus, he's a a river rat, like me.

I met Cal about a year ago, when I was working as a fabricator and installer for a local art glass business that shall go unnamed. The boss needed me to pick up some custom bevels he had contracted Star to do. Problem was, it was Friday afternoon, and Cal had planned to leave early. Told my boss the only way he'd hang around for me was if we paid in full on the spot AND brought along a case of Busch Light.

Got to love the entrepreneurial spirit. He was certainly an inspiration to me. Can't wait for the day my business grows cojones big enough to make a client of mine bring cash and Beefeaters in order to collect their work on Friday afternoon...

I heard just this afternoon that Cal had moved his operation into smaller quarters. From what I was told, it sounded like someone made him an irresistable offer for the original real estate, but I have not confirmed that.

Compared to that, my own operation is quite humble, still very much in start-up mode. I'd be pleased to take on small-to-middling cutoff and straight custom bevel contracts for local glassworkers. Gear is on the way for me to play with inside curves also, but as I mentioned earlier, I have neither the scale of equipment nor the inclination to become anything like a Cal-scale production bevel business.

Contact info is all here:

~s

Often, Beefeaters on the rocks (no fruits/no vegatables) is better than ANYTHING. Sleek, clean and profoundly efficient: Beefeaters is the Great White Shark of the Libation World.

Plus, it doubles as a disinfectant for some of those nasty cuts.

I recommend it highly.

~s

That would be one and the same person, and the pay and beer, what I have always said around here, "if you don't ask it, you won't get it, in fact you won't even get ...NO." nice when you get, "OK", but that does sound like Calvin.