Fused Glass Studio Tour | Glass Supplies, Cutting Workspace | Home Art Studio
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2022
- Hi guys! I wanted to introduce myself and give a little tour of my home studio for this week's Fused Glass Friday. Next week I'll be back with another fused glass project!
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Thank you, great idea showing us around your w/shop….inspirational.
Take care
Love from Australia❤
Hi, thanks for sharing! For the Dremmel, use diamond bits and water...at the sink or in a container
Thank you for sharing your great studio and enviable glass collection. When I drill glass, I use a shallow container with a small wood block and water to cover the piece. I use a diamond core bit. Mark the hole on both sides with a paint pen. Go in at an angle to keep the bit from skipping. Straighten up the drill angle. Slow in and out and let the hole fill with water and cool the glass and the bit. Let the drill do the work and don't force it. Flip glass over, before it goes through. Finish from the other side to keep the back from possibly blowing out. Hope this helps. 😀
Thank you so much for the advice! What drill bits do you use? Maybe I have crappy ones
Thanks for showing us around your studio. You've certainly packed a lot into the space. Great storage ideas. Love your pups they're adorable.
Thanks for watching! ❤️
Always fun to see another’s space (and their pups!). Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thanks for watching! I’ve been subscribed to your channel for a while, love your videos!
@@EquinoxGlass aw, thank you!
Thank you for sharing. Your work place is awesome 🤩
Thank you and thanks for watching! 😊
Hi! Loved the tour! I have enjoyed watching your videos, your last one the take you did on the Van Gogh Cafe piece was wonderful! On the drilling. I make a LOT of jewelry. Here are some tips that might help: 1. Always use a diamond bit on your Dremel (I have the same set up as you do on mine!). 2. Put a few inches (depending on the size of your project) of water into a lower sided plastic container. 3. Put a sponge (relatively small, but same size as your project) into the bottom of the plastic container and make sure the sponge is immersed in the water. 4. Mark the where you want the hole with a Sharpie. 5. Place your piece on top of the sponge. 6. With light-er pressure (but heavy enough so it won't skip across your piece), place your Dremel at a 45 degree angle and press firmly but not too hard and start the hole. Keep the pressure even. 7. After the tip of the bit has started the hole, slowly tilt your Dremel to a 90 degree angle as you are still pressing firmly. Let the Dremel do the work! Stay on it, making sure not to press too hard. The sponge will help the glass yield a little to the pressure, but also serves as a back-stop for the Dremel so it won't pierce the plastic container. I have drilled 6MM of glass like this - took a long time and 2 bits! But also 2MM, it just takes practice! You can do it, you have amazing dexterity with those little pieces you cut! 🙂 I may have missed it, but did you say where your kiln was? Anyway, good luck with the drilling, and looking forward to more videos! 😉
Thank you for the in depth response! Since I posted this video I have been much more successful using the drill press attachment for the dremel, that seems to work so much better for me than holding it by hand.
I’m not sure I mentioned it, but my kiln is in my garage. So I make projects inside my studio, then carry them out to the garage to fire.
@@EquinoxGlass Hah! I had no idea there was a drill press attachment for the Dremel, lol! Thank you, I will totally be looking into that without a doubt!😆
Fused glass warehouse in NH has some wasser glass hanging around and it's not too expensive. There was something else I was going to share and I had a brain fart I'll come back to it LOL
Thanks for showing your studio! I love it, especially the painting done by your MIL…..your storage is so neat and organized! Rey enjoyable you!
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So lucky with that wasser glass, it is 90 and Wouk’s great with bullseye. It does full fuse at a lower temp. Thanks for the tour
Thanks for watching!
I loved your studio tour. It’s fun to see all the same pieces and parts that I have all over my studio! 😁. You’ve received some good advice regarding drilling glass. The only thing I would add is that you don’t need fancy drill bits. I’ve ruined $30 bits after a few uses and drilled over 100 holes using a bit that cost $1 or $2. Drill in water, go in at an angle, lift the drill up every few seconds to allow the glass to cool in between drilling. If you hear a high pitched noise when drilling, it’s time to change your drill bit. If you are drilling larger holes, it can help to put down electrical tape around the hole to keep the drill from slipping.
Thanks for the advice Nancy! Do you use the hollow bits too? I only have very very tiny solid bits so I think that’s my problem.
@@EquinoxGlass, the only time I use hollow diamond bits is when I am drilling larger holes for clock hardware, or holes in terra cotta pots for vitrigraph. Mostly, I use small solid bits. I can't attach a picture here, but I will send you a pic using messenger on your FB page showing you the bits I normally use.
@@nancyblomquist3463 awesome, thank you!!
Great workspace and your dogs are adorable!!
Thanks, I'll let them know! 😆
What a wonderful video. I’m so glad you let all of us get to know you better. How lucky to get all that glass, frit etc. Your setup is great. Love your fur babies. It’s nice that you do other things besides just fused glass. Most days I want to do fused glass but I’m glad to have a choice to do something else. To answer your question about drilling holes get a Drexel drill press stand. $40 some on Amazon or your national chain hardware store. You can just attach the Drexel to the stand. Put whatever you want to drill in a plastic contained with water and a fiber board or something so you don’t put a hole thru the plastic container. Even a piece of glass in the tub works. Then gently go up and down slowly on lowest speed. I break something every once in a while but the key is slow, up and down and low speed. Good luck and thanks for letting us see you and your setup.
Thanks for the advice Donna, I’ll definitely look into a drill press!
I loved your studio space. It's nice to know that I am not the only one with a glass addiction. I love some of your ideas for organization of all the bits and pieces. That seems to be my biggest problem right now.
Thank you! It’s a constant work in progress 😂
Love your studio and all your videos !
Thank you so much!
Love your studio tour and so nice to see your face too! I wondered who those pups belonged to in your video…sweet that they are yours!
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Oh and drilling holes get a plastic container fill it with water that will cover a piece of Styrofoam like they pack in your glass. Have just enough water that it covers that piece of styrofoam. Your Dremel does not have to be going fast and started at an angle so that it gets a bite of the glass and go real slow. As It Gets a bite of the glass slowly bring it up perpendicular and then just let the gravity and the Dremel do the work and as long as there's water there it'll keep the head cool and all the sudden you'll have a nice hole. I am working with a new camera to try to do videos but one way or the other I'll see if I can't do a video of it today and shoot it your way.
What fun to wonder around someone else's glass addiction!! I would have to do quite a bit of cleaning before letting anyone view my space!!
Love watching your videos!! I have made quite a few fireflies in jars! Very cute idea!! I've added glow in the dark powder!!
Thanx for the videos!!
Thanks for watching! I’ve never tried the glow in the dark power, is it awesome?!
It's science, that's for sure!! Took me a while to figure it out!! Not sure how to show you pictures....
yo!hhow amazing video- all the best~Equinox-
Thank you!
On the best day my studio looks like a bomb has gone off.
What part of Germany we where stationed in Wiesbaden for three years.
Lol, I have those days too! We lived in Mannheim.
Can I ask how do you afford to have so much inventory? Do you buy in bulk? If so, is there a package you recommend?
I got a great deal when the studio where I work switched from 96 to Bullseye.