skoronesa

For the sake of comparing apples to apples we need to remember that the total volume will affect the amount of variation and you're best to describe the variation in terms of percentages and not units of weight. I would suggest using sodium borrosilicate or soda-lime glass as your standard. These are the most common. Soda-lime glass has a density of 2.52g/cm3. A cubic centimeter is about the size of a peewee marble. I estimate that your 2" marble would be about 10 cubic centimeters, making a clear soda-lime marble weigh 25.2g Leaded glass sounds like it would be a good bit heavier. Ingredients like "lutz", which is a metal powder will quickly increase the weight.

Goose loves marbles, so does Erick. When Erick was younger everyday we would check the mail for a bag of marbles. He would get so excited waiting for me to come home so we could sort them. Two kids later the marbles don't come any where near as frequently. Goose was so happy the first time he could do more than watch erick and I. I bought copies of the same klutz book of marbles I have from my childhood.

The ring with the bag of nicer cheap marbles I keep in my car.

Goose playing on our marble ring. Erick and I made it abot a month ago. We are living in our new house. I want to put one in the front yard as well. We made it by digging up a 4ft circle of sod and setting it aside, taking a foot of the dirt below which luckily had a lot of clay in it and putting that in the wheelbarrow, put the sod back in and the good clay dirt on top. We also picked out the rocks, roots, and glass. The last owner was a drunk and there is glass EVERYWHERE.

Now I feel as though I must make some knee pads. Perhaps a matching marble bag as well. Line the knee pads with rabbit fur.

That being said I have yet to see a glass marble show any patterns similar to a real stone moss agate.

A real moss agate is made when moss growing on a stone is petrified over time. Petrification happens when minerals slowly "replace" the organic material. This takes millions of years or 7 days depending on your views.

sold for 81$+12$ shipping. I was bid 70$ wish I could have done more, I really wanted these.

THE MOTHERLODE!!!! http://www.ebay.com/itm/251931345474?_trksid=p2055359.m1431.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&autorefresh=true

I added more photos to my album, they are of the new ones i just got today, from that ebay link. They are MUCH bigger than I expected. I thought they were 5/8" or so at most 3/4", they are at least 1-1/4". I think they are actually 35mm.

@ann, I think I bid on the first one, I was very sad to see it get away. 5 out of the 6 I have from him I bought a 2 years ago when I set aside 200$ of my tax return for marbles.

https://www.facebook.com/marblegems

The how it's made episode on marbles:

I don't know of other machine designs but the one i have seen in videos (dirty jobs-jabo and on how its made) have a pot up top where the glass is melted, there is a hole in the bottom with a slider over it, the slider has a hole in it. as it moves back and forth glass goes through as the hole opens and closes the glass comes out and gets sheared off. they can vary the amount of glass with speed and size of hole. There are spiral rollers below that spin and the marbles land on them. by the time they get to the end they are cool and they fall into a basket. To vary size they change the slider hole size and speed and change the rollers to ones with smaller or larger grooves. I am sure you could make marbles with the same rollers that are smaller but not ones that are larger than the width of the grooves.

This should be the link to the album of photos of them. The ones by Matthew are at the end. https://plus.google.com/photos/102572682398761078585/albums/6134136003566752129

Funny enough, out of all the money I have spent, I only have one real "marble", and its made by Matthew.

Show your collections! I just bought these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201318862220Quite a good price. I will try to add as many pictures of mine as possible in time. My favourites are made by Matthew DeGraffenreid (may have misspelt the last name). I have 6 or 7 made by him, very beautiful, my favourite being a lake superior agate. It is bright orange with wisps and a really cool crystal like part. Apparently I can't find the pics of my stone marbles, I will take pictures after the kids go to bed.

From the wiki: According to The Kentucky Headhunters' band member Doug Phelps, the song refers to a retailer and world class marbles champion named "Dumas" from Moss, Tennessee who owned a "package" shop near the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, close to Annie Hanrahan's place. The shop sold "beer, snacks [and] fireworks" and was "part of the Kentucky boys' lives growing up." The lyrics that reflect a desire to purchase "slaw burger, fries, and a bottle of Ski" are completely unrelated to the real-life "Dumas Walker", referring to a restaurant in Greensburg, Kentucky called Adolphus Ennis, where the band would go following a show.[3] At first, the record label did not want to include the song on the Kentucky Headhunters' album because they believed it was too regional. However, the Headhunters pushed for the song to be on the album because of the reaction it received during live shows.[3]

From your link: "salizaarApr 3, 2009 at 1:59 pm As my mother said, "Why, they've made a song about that old bootlegger, Dumas Walker!" Yes, he was. And he loved to shoot "marvels" as he called them. That was why "you oughta see him GRINNIN' when you walk through the door, the marble king ready for more!" More people to play marbles with. More business. They played Rolley Hole, which was a game carried to Appalachia from England and Ireland. But he also sold liquor in a dry county. And the home made stuff. And they bet on the marble games, and laid money down on the floor. A "slawburger" is a hamburger with cabbage slaw on it instead of lettuce. A bottle of "Ski" (not skeet) is a kind of soda pop, off brand, I think it was made by the ones who bottled are. C. Cola, it's like a Mountain Dew or something, one of those lemon/lime eye burners. The country music video of this song showed them shooting marbles on a pool table, which as far as I know doesn't happen. But they have a marble tournament at Standing Stone every year." That's pretty cool to know, thanks for sharing. I figured a bottle of ski meant a brew-ski. Slawburgers are good.

If you watch the music video for "dumas walker's" by the kentucky headhunters you will see the old guys playing marbles on the pool table. I may do an indoor ring out of felt, I eyeball the rolls of felt every time I go to wally world. I think the rolls of car carpet in the automotive section would be better because they have a thicker pile, felt might be too fast, I want something similar to dirt.

Very sad to hear. If he sold on ebay I believe I bought from him.

I know in jersey they play on a 10' painted concrete circle. In greyhound its a smaller concrete circle with sand thrown on it. In school we played on the one piece of smooth concrete, it was poured by a janitor who took pride in his work. As a kid visiting my relatives in the city it was the side walk. But in my own backyard I played on hard packed dirt. When I was 13 and made our patio we had extra trap rock dust which I packed into a steel ring from an old wagon wheel, about 3 1/2' in diameter. I want to make a good old fashioned hard packed dirt circle to play on with my children. We will be getting a house soon. I am thinking I can pour a concrete ring to pack the dirt into. Not sure how large I could go without making the wife upset. I will probably do one without the concrete first just to get an idea of what I need to use for dirt, might dig some up from my parents house. It had a bit of clay in it and packed real well, also there's nostalgia.

I don't know what you'd call it or who makes it but between the bubbles and the sweet colour combo I really like it.

Might be epoxy, or they just put the marbles in a pre-warmed bottle and drip clear glass in.