Wanted: Full studio w/tools

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]I told her that all I want to know is ]if they send her things to put in my food to speed up the bead distribution ]process.

Manda is a treasure!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "meijhana" :

]When she's 30, she can toss them. But tell her to keep ]them at least that long, so she can tell!

seconded!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Steve & Susan Wright" :

]I always suggest that people check with the local rock clubs for alot of ]equipment since that is a dieing group and usually there are widows widowers ]there with equipment or at least the group knows who has what left over. ]It's usually a pretty tight group of people that have know each other for ]years and really like to help each other and look forward to new people. ]Our art canter has a large number of elderly and someone is always letting ]the center know of pre sale sales for members.

seconded. the average age of my rock/gem club has to be at LEAST 75!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

If you get any mysterious Cocoabats, DON'T EAT THEM!

LOL my dad is always telling me about some cool thing he got, and then telling me that it'll go to me, at which point I'm like "DAD!" because in what way is it exciting to discuss stuff I'll get when he dies??? He's going to be 76 this year but I'm pretty sure he's got at least another nineteen years left in him. That's what we discussed, anyway, and I'm holding him to it!

Did you end up seeing the post in the WetCanvas Swap Shop???

Yeah - actually it was me. (sheepish grin) After I lurked around WC for awhile I decided I'd better join. It was late, I was signing up and I said to myself, "Hey - I've always liked the name Sophia - not Sophia Loren Sophia, but Sophia, the lady at the Italian Deli Sophia - I have a chance to have an alias, how cool!) 757 is my area code. Sophia757. Little did I know that, unlike EBay, once you choose your name, that is who you will be for life on the WC.

So yes, I saw it. I did.

LOL now I know! Well, glad you're on WetCanvas... I've found that place to be an absolutely priceless resource, though I only really have time to keep up with the technical forum.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Pam" :

]$1000.00 isn't going to cut it, is ]it?

nope.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

I can't get my clay wholesale with just my reseller's number?

Nope.

I hope my Meg grows up to be as fiesty and wonderful as your Manda. Diana

distribution

This is just a quickie reply- I'm home on half day from William Holland and skimming the group

But: you can bezel set natural stones in PMC after the PMC piece has been fired. We are doing this as a project either Thursday or Friday in class. I'll have more details then :)

oh you mean doing it the old fashioned way - using the PMC piece as a base? Hmnn... we are going to learn how to bezel set a cabochon to a piece of silver sheet (making a ring) in my jewelry class in a couple of weeks...

This sounds interesting. I wonder how they keep the PMC the right size after firing?

Tina

Ah yes, this is how we did it too. We did both "stones" (CZs, but don't try "peridot"; it turns brown) and also glass. The glass needs a different (lower heat and longer heating and cooling) than stones. We didn't do it on sheet PMC, but did used a rolled out sheet of the clay PMC.

Tina

this is all very confusing ;-) But I think I get it. You can either set a stone in PMC before you fire it... or you can set a stone on a finished (fired) PMC piece using old fashioned soldering methods - depending on whether the stone will stand the firing process or not.

That's what I'm hearing. But the silver shrinks in the firing, so I don't know how you would get the setting the right size.

Also, the point of PMC is avoiding the need to use traditional smithing processes. I would think that would be something taught much later. Like after PMC certification, etc.

Tina

Quite right, send them to me for... erm... testing purposes...

Doh.