What to do with a glass head

Glass heads are pretty much worthless these days and hard to get rid of. Package the head and send it to me. I will dispose of it for you.

Maybe drill holes in the back toward the top. Use a low watt bulb.

Hallowee'en is coming up....... m

Fill it full of spam?

Mike

Some possible solutions... ...Use more, smaller, holes angled so that their axis does not line up with the bulb. ...Grind channels in the back of the mosaic pieces to cover the holes and still pass the air. ...use plastic light pipes to get the light inside from an outside light. ...use neon light to minimize heat. You shouldn't need a very high wattage to make the head glow. ...Don't worry about it looking weird. A glass head covered with glass with a light inside isn't exactly normal anyway.

Chunk

Reminds me of the Spam-a-rama (I think that is what it is called) in Austin. Food made from Spam like Spam ice cream, yum-yum | : - *

Fill it full of beads from Black Swamp Glassworks :-)

With a nice hot Velveeta sauce on top.

Cut it in half longitudinally and you've got two jello molds.

John Bassett

That might be a technical challenge worthy of our best efforts.

How WOULD one do that, anyway?

Yeah, my tile saw is way to small for that.

What to do with a glass head?

I see that your question in a chat room brought out the smart asses. I do not use chat rooms I wait and read the newsgroup. If you want to make a lamp with a glass head , there are many ways to do so. base? These are just a few of the things that popped into my mind. But you must first think of how to you change the bulb? Are you going to use a lampshade? If so, vent holes on the top are okay. A Mosaic Head Lamp with light beams coming thru the top is not a bad idea. In Art there are no bad ideas. You can also vent from the bottom. Are you going to place the glass over the bulb or use it for a lamp base? I make many different things and ODD lamps happens to be one of them.

Uhhhhh...the fact that you might not appreciate humor does not make the other posters "smart asses".

I do not use chat rooms I wait and read the newsgroup.

Maybe if you used a real ISP instead of AOLame you'd understand.

You think?

Did you forget that heat RISES? Not likely to get much ventilation with a hole in the bottom.

I bet.

Connie,

Have you considered using the head as a base for a lamp? Drill the hole in the base, pour in your favorite color paint - dump the excess out and hang to dry. Then drill your top hole for the brass tubing to run your electrical cord and mounting for the socket and shade. I'm sure with your artistic ability that you can think of what you might want as a shade design - so I won't go there. Have fun!

Hal

If my saw was large enough I would proceed to put plaster in a cake pan then lay the head in the plaster mix face up. Strip the cake pan off and you have something that will be stable on the saw table. No matter that the glass and plaster do not stick together, it will still allow you to hold the head stable while you saw. Cut right through head, plaster and all.

I'm already thinking of a neat sculpture with the two halves.

There's an idea just in time for All Hallow's Eve.

If you can seal up the head, you could perhaps make a gas plasma sculpture of it. I didn't find anything but some expired links on the web to this, but I understand they have classes at Corning occasionally on making gas plasma pieces.

Of course, if you're going to all that trouble, better you just blow something you like, but it is *possible*.

Mike Beede

drill several holes in top of head and put twisted, colored tubes in the holes and call it a bad hair day.

Bryan "I'm avoiding work" Paschke

Connie, If you do bead shows, use it for display. Patti