Re: Taurus Ring Saw....good?

Be sure to wear hearing protection...the thing sounds like a New Holland

hay baler running.

IMPOSSIBLE CUTS=

difficulty in foiling

very subject to cracking

in most cases not appreciated or un-necessary

How about "too expensive a piece of glass to risk a bad break"....?

I was once making some panels for my front door and sidelights, using only

clear glass with lots of different textures, some thick & wavy, some thinner

and very ripply, but they were all difficult to cut. I wasted a fair amount

of glass and ended up having to modify my patterns to accommodate "close,

but not quite right" pieces of glass.

So if I were to cut a large piece of "difficult" glass again, I would be

tempted to use the ring saw so that my money could be spent on "new" glass,

not "replacement" glass.

Thanks to all who provided input....I think I will get one in the near

future.

Jay

The Taurus ring saw works fine for me, I have had no problems with my saw in

the past 4 years. You can go to geminisaw.com for more info.

Charlotte,NC

I've got one and I like it just fine.

Negative: It is loud and has a big kerf.

Positive: you can make impossible cuts (which work great on mosaics, but

should be avoided in stained glass) and you can cut other materials as well

(stone and ceramic). Since a lot of my business is sandblast etching, this

comes in handy when making blanks.

but these don't come into play if one is fusing up the pieces instead of

putting intact in a panel.

regards,

charlie

cave creek, az

I have a   Diamond Laser 3000 from Diamond Tech International. It's messy

(splatters water everywhere) and slow.

Has anyone used both this and the Taurus Ring Saw? How do they compare?

I'm interested in knowing because I'm thinking of selling my DL3000 since I

don't use it enough to justify the space it takes up. If it weren't so messy

and slow, I'd use it more.

Thanks,

Linda

snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com

Jay Adair wrote:

Whoops....the blade for the Diamond Lazer 5000 is $119 from Delphi. The

whole saw is $975.

The new blade and a kit of all the loose parts that always wear out on the

Taurus is $139, and the saw is $350 or so.

Thanks for the input. I have begun working on a pseudo-Tiffany panel, with

lots of wisteria flowers, leaves, stems, etc. and some lightly rippled

clearish glass in the middle section. I am hoping to have a Taurus when it

comes time to cut the clear glass so that I can minimize the number of

pieces needed...(seems like I always start with large pieces in the panel,

but as impossible cuts result in more and more breakage, the large piece

gets re-drawn into several smaller pieces and I wind-up with more seams in

the panel than I want - hopefully, the saw will let me make the clear glass

"vanish" from the panel, emphasizing the flowers, etc.)

Jay

P.S. - Does anyone else work like this.....cutting glass a piece at a time,

fitting it against what is already cut, without using a pattern? Kinda just

going with the flow and seeing where you wind up? I'm using clear sheets of

adhesive to hold the finished pieces of glass in place as I work, saving the

foiling for later....

You are probably right. I don't set any speed records....but, when I find a

piece of glass with a little character that would be interesting in the

panel, but it is bigger, longer, smaller, wider, etc. than the pattern calls

for, I am free to use it spontaneously without having to adjust elsewhere. I

guess at 49, I, too, am an old-timer....patterns just seem to be so

restraining....

Jay (never sold a piece of work, and now you can see why)