Sulphide Repair #1

[richsantaclaus]

Before pix

[richsantaclaus]

after pix

[Chordus]

Wow. O_O That is absolutely incredible.

[popeyecollector]

How was this done? Hand ground to a near sphere then finished off with a sphere machine? Seeing that last explosion - doubt that it was "cooked." Cost to have it done?

[raynsandy]

of all the sulphides that Ive torched, Ive never seen one blow up like he had in that one photo. No ideas.

The advantage of melting vs grinding:

With melting you will retain more volume and also it will be annealed so you know it should hold up. The other thing with melting is, sometimes you have to tweezer off little white spots on the surface from dirt and crap that got down into the chipped areas.

with grinding, you loose more volume and there is no stress relief in the glass, so what ever stress was there, still is.

Nice looking marble.

[richsantaclaus]

I've been able to make figurines be more centered with patience and techniques developed over the 8 months of repairing old sulphides. Heat control is very important too.

Rich

[coolbrezz]

WOW! Nice Rich!

[zigafoose]

That is pretty amazing.

Nice to see an old girl get a facelift.