a wolf angel is not a good angel

This weekend I’m all set for the fusion course. I’m not so terribly excited about making a sushi dish — don’t eat sushi — but just knowing the techniques. Alas, we don’t get to use the kiln so much ourselves. I do intend to remedy that quite soon. I want a kiln. I really want a kiln. I know exactly where to put a kiln. I could make bowls in a kiln. I could buy dichroic glass! I could make myself barrettes (scroll down just a bit less than halfway).

I’ve been working on a stained glass project at home, rather slowly. I’m very proud; the ambery colour I picked matches just right the base I already had. (I *like* boxes.) Of course as I was doing something I dropped the piece, but luckily I only needed three fairly small pieces for the box — I can use the rest elsewhere — so I cut those out. Now I’m trying to cut out pieces of clear patterned glass for parts of it, but one of those pieces is really thick and a huge huge huge pain to deal with. And I can’t find my thing to make straight cuts (I forget what it’s called). I could just use the side of a table or whatnot, but I’d prefer not to, given the choice. Especially for the box sides, which really need to be straight.

I’m working on the box top first. I think it has about 20 pieces, which is pretty basic, but boxes are not so big. Of course, small pieces are in many ways harder to deal with, except that they’re less of a pain when they break, because you’re less likely to need to go out and buy another sheet of glass. That’s about the only way small pieces are better, actually — they’re harder to break right, they’re harder to grind down because they’re a pain to hold, they’re harder to copper foil. They’re not harder to solder; they’re not easier either.

But tops aren’t too bad to solder, because they’re flat. Flat is much, much easier. The sides are harder; not too bad, when you have electrical tape, which I don’t, at the moment. Then I need to find a file or something, because I need to cut through some metal to make the hinge. Hardware store soon! Also I’m out of solder and all my glass globs disappeared, but I was going to the glass store tomorrow anyways . . . I have all these cool plans for stuff with globs. Oh, I can’t find my copper foil. Why, yes, I am blogging-as-shopping-list. Writing stuff down helps me remember. With luck typing will work as well. Equally well, not just also.

Glass. I’m avoiding cutting some of it because I don’t like cutting *out* the pattern, then drawing onto dark opaque glass. I’ve never found anything that works well. Some people swear by liquid paper pens, but they just annoy me. We’ll see. I’m actually using more of that green glass with mica bits in it, which isn’t too terrible to work with, all things considered.

I sort of want to make a proper window something again. I have no wonderful ideas — all my ideas are 3d; I need to think more. Suggestions welcome.

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