Use 3/16, but really depends on your glass, if you use alot of Youghiogheny Stipple, you may want to re-think that, unless you like real tiny lead lines. remember, the lead line is the support and skeleton of the shade, don't under estimate the importance of those lines.
another bit of advice, don't count pieces,
just build it because you like it, and stay at it until it is done. Little bit every day.
Did you say you wanted a Wisteria? got that too.
...don't count pieces, just build it because you like it, and stay at it until it is done. Little bit every day. Did you say you wanted a Wisteria? got that too.
**************** What a great piece of advice! I went over to the local glass shop and sat and went through the sample boxes for Spectrum, Kokomo, Bullseye, and a couple others looking for the glass I want to use for the Worden Tulip. I found a few, but not many. All that glass and I couldn't put my finger on the dramatic dark green that I see in so many lamps as leaves and grass.And nope, don't want a Wisteria. For some reason or other, they just don't strike my fancy. But there must be a dozen or more others that I would like to have.
I've got a few first impression comments on the Worden mold I got a couple days back. I've never made a Tiffany-style lamp (only a couple geometric ones), but I've got to say that I'm not really happy with the Worden lamp mold I got. I've got to pin the paper design on a styrofoam mold in little strips. First, I see the paper getting soaked with flux. Then I see the mold melting from heat. Something else I don't like is the small variation I'm going to get in dimensions by having to pin the design on there in little pieces. I'm thinking the fixed fiberglass Odyssey molds are going to be much more to my liking.
Michael
Yes the Worden pattern system sucks, but it's cheap, and there are ways to work around the problems. The old original Worden system had each design painted on the styrofoam which was easier, but still fit was not exact. Check out Rainbow, or Studio design in NJ. They had their own 3d plastic molds that are somewhere between Worden & Odyssey in price and workability.
Check out Rainbow, or Studio design in NJ. They had their own 3d plastic molds that are somewhere between Worden & Odyssey in price and workability.
***************** I might try them after a while, but first I'm going to give the Odysseys a shot. I've decided on what I want. I want the 22" Dragonfly and the 28" Peony, please. They are both present designs viewable on the web page you posted earlier. Email me at miker snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com and I'll either send you a check or maybe you can take a credit card.Thanks, Michael
Whoops! That should have been steered towards Javahut. Sorry for the confusion.
Michael
(Since you are using google gropes) there would be a lot less confusion if you would simply click the Reply button (lower lefthand corner) in the article you're replying to. The text you're quoting then shows up with
practically every real newsreader in the world does.
That also preserves threading so those of us with threaded newsreaders don't have to be told who a post is directed toward.
sent you an email earlier, reply to it, that peony I have also
I bought the Worden tulip lamp and I just started cutting glass for it tonight. After cutting some, out of curiousity I matched up one of the pattern pieces to its spot on the form and discovered that there is a significant discrepancy. I'm going to have to check the entire pattern against the form and alter the pattern piece if need be.
Michael
Finally got all the pieces cut on the Worden tulip lamp I'm working on. Here's a view of one-third of the pattern laid out on a table:
When the top silicone layer dried, I started fitting and tacking on the pieces. I got the first row done. Kinda slow going. Fit, grind, tape, tack. This is my first Tiffany-style lamp. I'm having a lot of fun with it. I've made some minor mistakes, but nothing major so far.
Michael
I put the rim on my Worden tulip lamp. I think it's now thirty days from when I started cutting on it, seven of those gone on travel. Here's a picture of my first Tiffany, lit by 100 watts:
Very nice job for a 1st lamp!
Very nice job for a 1st lamp!
************** Thank you for the kind words, JK. I had a lot of help from the good folks in the group here. Of course, the light is kind and tends to draw attention to the glass instead of the workmanship. There are some gaps between pieces that are too big. I'm also not totally thrilled with a couple of my glass choices.This next lamp will be a different experience, being an Odyssey instead of a Worden. On the Worden I did the fit, grind, foil, and solder in many iterations. With the Odyssey I plan on coating the mold with beeswax and sticking the parts on there and fitting and grinding and then foiling them all at once and then soldering all at once. I'm thinking this will prove to be a more efficient method. The Odyssey is also going to hang from the ceiling, so I'm going to get some experience with the mechanics of that.
Michael
You'll always be your harshest critic. 99.9% of folks that look at what you make will only see the pretty glass.... you will see the workmanship.
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