Melissa Posted December 16, 2022 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 Are these what you call wire pulls and slags? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted December 16, 2022 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 A couple of Slags, but mostly WVS IMO....might be a couple of Veligglass, little tough to tell without more images individually...the two I like are dead Center next to each other 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 18 minutes ago, William said: A couple of Slags, but mostly WVS IMO....might be a couple of Veligglass, little tough to tell without more images individually...the two I like are dead Center next to each other 😊 Are just the two in the middle considered slags then? Are the rest wire pulls? I'm trying to learn the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted December 16, 2022 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 The red one looks Slag too me, maybe Akro. The green one is a Veligglass possibility...more opinions will be forthcoming 😊👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, William said: The red one looks Slag too me, maybe Akro. The green one is a Veligglass possibility...more opinions will be forthcoming 😊👍 Thanks. Never heard of Veligglass. I'm googling it now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted December 16, 2022 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 Ah the old slag vs. swirl vs. wire pull conversation. Slag’s have one opaque color, white. The base glass will be only one color as well, always transparent, from clear to electric yellow and everything in between. Some will be well filled with white some will be sparse. The white in a slag will follow little rhyme or reason, showing fine to thick lines and action with the white. Any marble that looks like a slag to you but has more than one opaque color or more than one transparent color is a swirl automatically. Swirls may show up often with only one opaque color, white. Many swirls will show more conformity to the white swirl of glass but many are all over the place. Experience is the only lesson as far as culling them from the slag’s. Wire pulls can have more than one color involved they also will have a transparent base glass. The opaque stream of glass in a wire pull can be followed throughout the marble as one very long, generally unbroken line/stream of glass. Some are easy to follow and some are very difficult, it can be a fun thing to try. I reposted your image and added some text. This is where it gets fun. There are two slag’s that I see based on my experience, the rest are swirls imho. The green one in between the slag’s may be a wire pull but I am leaning towards swirl on that one. All opinions are welcomed and appreciated. Marble—On!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted December 16, 2022 Report Share Posted December 16, 2022 36 minutes ago, akroorka said: Ah the old slag vs. swirl vs. wire pull conversation. Slag’s have one opaque color, white. The base glass will be only one color as well, always transparent, from clear to electric yellow and everything in between. Some will be well filled with white some will be sparse. The white in a slag will follow little rhyme or reason, showing fine to thick lines and action with the white. Any marble that looks like a slag to you but has more than one opaque color or more than one transparent color is a swirl automatically. Swirls may show up often with only one opaque color, white. Many swirls will show more conformity to the white swirl of glass but many are all over the place. Experience is the only lesson as far as culling them from the slag’s. Wire pulls can have more than one color involved they also will have a transparent base glass. The opaque stream of glass in a wire pull can be followed throughout the marble as one very long, generally unbroken line/stream of glass. Some are easy to follow and some are very difficult, it can be a fun thing to try. I reposted your image and added some text. This is where it gets fun. There are two slag’s that I see based on my experience, the rest are swirls imho. The green one in between the slag’s may be a wire pull but I am leaning towards swirl on that one. All opinions are welcomed and appreciated. Marble—On!! Just what I was thinking Art...I just wasn't too sure on that red one at the top. More images on that one would be great. I still think the green one in between the red ones is some form of WVS. The middle green one and the top right marble at 2o'clock are possible Veligglass IMO. WVS identification can be such fun 😐... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 6 hours ago, akroorka said: Ah the old slag vs. swirl vs. wire pull conversation. Slag’s have one opaque color, white. The base glass will be only one color as well, always transparent, from clear to electric yellow and everything in between. Some will be well filled with white some will be sparse. The white in a slag will follow little rhyme or reason, showing fine to thick lines and action with the white. Any marble that looks like a slag to you but has more than one opaque color or more than one transparent color is a swirl automatically. Swirls may show up often with only one opaque color, white. Many swirls will show more conformity to the white swirl of glass but many are all over the place. Experience is the only lesson as far as culling them from the slag’s. Wire pulls can have more than one color involved they also will have a transparent base glass. The opaque stream of glass in a wire pull can be followed throughout the marble as one very long, generally unbroken line/stream of glass. Some are easy to follow and some are very difficult, it can be a fun thing to try. I reposted your image and added some text. This is where it gets fun. There are two slag’s that I see based on my experience, the rest are swirls imho. The green one in between the slag’s may be a wire pull but I am leaning towards swirl on that one. All opinions are welcomed and appreciated. Marble—On!! Super helpful! Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 6 hours ago, William said: Just what I was thinking Art...I just wasn't too sure on that red one at the top. More images on that one would be great. I still think the green one in between the red ones is some form of WVS. The middle green one and the top right marble at 2o'clock are possible Veligglass IMO. WVS identification can be such fun 😐... What is WVS stand for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Melissa said: What is WVS stand for? West Virginia Swirl 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Melissa said: Super helpful! Thank you!! I am digging the new avatar as well. Uranium glass--On!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 20 hours ago, akroorka said: Ah the old slag vs. swirl vs. wire pull conversation. Slag’s have one opaque color, white. The base glass will be only one color as well, always transparent, from clear to electric yellow and everything in between. Some will be well filled with white some will be sparse. The white in a slag will follow little rhyme or reason, showing fine to thick lines and action with the white. Any marble that looks like a slag to you but has more than one opaque color or more than one transparent color is a swirl automatically. Swirls may show up often with only one opaque color, white. Many swirls will show more conformity to the white swirl of glass but many are all over the place. Experience is the only lesson as far as culling them from the slag’s. Wire pulls can have more than one color involved they also will have a transparent base glass. The opaque stream of glass in a wire pull can be followed throughout the marble as one very long, generally unbroken line/stream of glass. Some are easy to follow and some are very difficult, it can be a fun thing to try. I reposted your image and added some text. This is where it gets fun. There are two slag’s that I see based on my experience, the rest are swirls imho. The green one in between the slag’s may be a wire pull but I am leaning towards swirl on that one. All opinions are welcomed and appreciated. Marble—On!! Super helpful! Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Sorry about the duplicate post. Not sure how that happened. Here are more close ups of the green one. It has a couple nice bubbles in the center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Close ups of the red swirl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 More closeups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 This one is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 Akro Slag 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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