lapidary experiment fusing glass to aventurine for jewelry making inlay.

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Жыл бұрын

i have always wanted to try fusing glass to quartz based gem stones in the enameling technique so in this video i try just that!
#jewellerymaking #lapidary

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@clairemurray3202 Ай бұрын

That looks amazing. Thanks for sharing

@canadiangemstones7636 10 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@babbagebrassworks4278 Жыл бұрын

Cool, don't have a CO2 laser but diamond engraver bits in a CNC router might work. Will have to get some of enamel powders/rods for brass inlays.

@jonkubina 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely love your content and am inspired to get into jewelry making! If you are going to speak off-camera, could you do another take or script your videos? A minute in and you used 'like' like ten times in a row, lol. Love your work, hope your channel grows, and I can't wait to watch the milling machine video!

@zivfriedman2312 Жыл бұрын

amazing idea!

@sweetgumnyc7794 Жыл бұрын

thanks!

@dwdidit3664 9 ай бұрын

If you ever get around to trying this with amethyst, I think you might find that there will be a definite colour change. Most of the citrine available today is heat treated amethyst.

@shapeshifterstudio Жыл бұрын

Very cool! No apparent CoE problems either...I wonder why haven't people been enameling on quartz for hundreds of years?? I also wonder what the results would look like with transparent or leaded enamels 🤔Thanks for sharing!

@sweetgumnyc7794 Жыл бұрын

i was wondering the same thing. im actually interested in trying laser cutting a lace or net pattern in copper sheet and filling the holes with transparent enamel and then stacking the disks and fusing them together. i was thinking that if i used a transparent enamel, it might create an interesting pattern if shaped into a cabachon or maybe shaped on a lathe. i ordered some transparent enamels to try that and some other ideas

@shapeshifterstudio Жыл бұрын

@@sweetgumnyc7794 I would imagine you’d probably have a lot of expansion cracking if you tried fusing copper that already had enamel on it…but still worth experimenting! You could always etch the copper, form it to a cabochon and then enamel…who needs acid when you’ve got lasers?!

@novaearthinstitute5171 Жыл бұрын

Super interesting! You should be able to do this for production in a kiln or with a much bigger torch/softer flame. Curious to hear about durability and if coe effects that. Good work!

@sweetgumnyc7794 Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion!

@brianhutchinson7863 Жыл бұрын

Was glassblowing 33coe for a number of years and combination of glass and minerals/gemstones was what I was wanting to try just before I lost access to the studio I was working at. I had tried encasing a mica type mineral but the heat caused it to degrade and lose its shape and coloration. I was going to be encasing in an epoxy/photo sensitive resin after that. Really cool to see that you came up with such a process and what's possible. I was surprised to see the stone was melting with that little smith torch! Also what COE was that glass? I imagine in the 90s or 103?

@sweetgumnyc7794 Жыл бұрын

im glad you commented because i was thinking of trying mica as well. now i know it doesnt work :) ..im not sure about the glass coe, i bought it on amazon a long time ago for something else and now the seller is gone so the product info is no longer posted.