richsantaclaus

thicker ox blood + blue

uranium + oxblood

blue + ox blood

Mixed blue and white for this one

3 small pieces of different colored glass made this one

Here are more marbles just out of my kiln. This is a broken piece of cullet, very small, I remelted into a little guy.

Goldstone is a glass rock that is compatible with other glass. Because this person, Lutz, seemed to be the first person known to include it in his work, he received the honor of the name for the glass. Modern marble makers just call it Goldstone.

Thanks Leroy, I feel it would be educational and fun to try a joint project. I sent you an email about what I'd like to try.

Please explain how one "breaks off the cloudy glass" actually is done????? Do you sand it with wet/dry fine or extra fine sandpaper? Is there a chemical solution it sits in? This marble was almost totally covered with white spots, so much so, you couldn't tell what was inside! There also was 2 major spots that had big pieces of clear glass gone so much as to almost allow the lutz to be touched. I tried my best with the experience I have and am eager to learn more - thanks!!!

yes, post #3, the yellowish one is uranium glass.

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Like any of them?

Here is what I am talking about. This marble has the color swirls too close to the surface for me to attempt picking out the whitish scars from the big chips and dents that it started with BUT as you can see, I melted it pretty smooth. The next step would be polishing it to remove the white areas but not eat up too much glass.

This one took 4 1/2 hours to make - not sure of another big one like this again! Must have cost me $30 in oxygen and propane!!!!!

Leroy, you know what might be cool to try.... You know when a marble has the glass too close to the surface to torch it clean and you know when there is a deep chip or deep nip in the surface of a marble? I think me torching the deep places back to smooth and you then polishing it to remove the whitish residue from the distressed glass would work out to be a quite nice looking marble. What do you think - want to try one and see? PM me and let me know. Thanks

those pictures are nice!

I am about 20 min north of Temecula. This marble gets rid of 100 of those pesky, cheap cateye marbles I used to have in a small glass jar...lol

I can't stop myself...lol

It is one marble made from 2 smaller marbles and I didn't do any twisting or swirling either!

Playing around with techniques - like the results?

I attached 6 little ones together, made 1 bigger one and twisted it like an old time swirl! Like it?

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ok, here's what came out of my kiln this morning - like any of them?