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Posted by Javahut on September 17, 2007, 9:38 pm
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> glassman wrote:
>
> The only knock is that the Chinese glass is mostly really ugly. It is
> getting better, but you can't put 100's of hours into a Dragonfly and
> look to save $25 bucks using cheap glass can you?
>
> ***************
> I thought most of the pieces I looked at were beautiful, but my
> experience is very limited. The one thing I did notice is that most
> of the opal glass was too transparent to suit my tastes for a lamp. I
> want to look at the lamp, not the bulbs. My test was to be able to
> see the shadow of my fingers on the other side of the glass with a
> moderately lit backdrop, but not be able to make out the creases
> between my finger joints. Does that sound about right? I made a list
> of the glass I thought would work and I liked. It came to about 25
> types.
>
> Here in a few weeks I hope to travel up to Kokomo and check out their
> selection.
>
> And speaking of lamps, I'm going to start on the Worden Tulip as soon
> as I get back home from Atlanta. It's going to be the guinea pig
> before the Odyssey lamps. I've still got some vacation coming. I'm
> thinking about taking three or four days and going for a big jumpstart
> on it. This is a terrible thing to say, but I'm not going to be a
> real stickler for quality on the first one. More than anything I just
> want to run through the process and get a warm fuzzy for it. After
> watching the Porcelli video, I know that I want to take the pattern
> somewhere and get however many copies of the design it takes for the
> entire thing before I cut it out and don't have anything to lay them
> out on.
>
> Michael
Michael,
be real careful, you could over organize yourself out of having fun.
Don't take everything on the Porcelli DVD , or anyone else's word, as being
the "end all be all" official word for how to build a lamp. Enjoy it, the
entire process. Use one or two patterns and stack the glass up, who cares?
no big deal, stack the repeats one on top of the next, so what??
and if you see a glass you like and it is not overly dense, use it anyway.
I have restored an awful lot of original Tiffany lamps and what the glass
did was block the glare from the bulbs, not the view of the bulbs them
selves. Don't hold much to that school of thought. I have made a great
many lamps where the bulb was obvious as hell, but there was no glare from
it because of the glass. and the best glass, by whatever manufacturer is
the one whose glass has a particular "fire" or glow when used in a lamp. I
have never worried about the shape of or seeing the light bulb, but I don't
want a glare from it attracting my eye.
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