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Title: My engraved church screen
Post by: SueB on September 03, 2008, 09:54:07 PM
Glass has kept me really busy recently!

I wondered if some of you might be interested in my latest and biggest project yet.
I've just finished engraving (using a flexidrive drill and small hand drills) a large church screen. It measures over 6 feet wide by over 4 and half feet high.
It's in my work in progress album on www.picturetrail.com/sueburne

I also have a smaller piece (a plate) in the Guild of Glass Engravers' Exhibition at the Red House Cone in Stourbridge at the moment and I have a new website www.sueburne.co.uk

Best wishes
Sue
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: Carolyn Preston on September 04, 2008, 12:03:22 AM
That is just stunning Sue. I'm very impressed.  :o  :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:

Carolyn
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: Anne on September 04, 2008, 02:22:26 AM
Quite beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with us Sue.  :clap:
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: Lustrousstone on September 04, 2008, 06:30:59 AM
Fabulous, what more can I say  :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: johnphilip on September 04, 2008, 07:00:35 AM
 Ohhh why wasnt i born clever as well as hansome ,  then if i were not so modest i woud be perfect.  JP :angel:
 brilliant work  :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: a40ty on September 04, 2008, 09:00:42 AM
They are gorgeous.. what a talent you have!  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: Frank on September 04, 2008, 09:11:15 AM
Good work and fascinating to see the process. Thread should be in glass!
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: krsilber on September 04, 2008, 05:21:21 PM
Wow, I'm so impressed!  And you've only been engraving since 2001?!  That's fabulous, and inspiring.  I love the dandelions, the fine details of the seeds.  Your ferns are terrific, too, so lifelike.  And you do it with drills...when I've tried (very amateurishly) using a Dremel I end up getting minute chips along the edges of cuts; do you avoid that, and how?  I've thought of trying to use water to cool the glass, but don't know if that makes a difference.  Maybe my Dremel doesn't work at high enough speed; what rpms do your tools run at?
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: pamela on September 04, 2008, 05:44:08 PM
Sue, I lift my hat! What a wonderful handicraft(ing?)! (Sorry, bad English, lacking right word)  :hiclp:
Kristi, gold and silver dremeling works wonderful with sewing machine oil  8) - hope, Sue will have a better idea for glass?? :D Never tried myself, but should perhaps like to for repairs  :angel:
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: krsilber on September 04, 2008, 06:51:26 PM
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Kristi, gold and silver dremeling works wonderful with sewing machine oil 

Pamela, that sounds interesting...do you mean engraving in solid silver/gold?
Title: Re: My engraved church screen
Post by: pamela on September 04, 2008, 07:09:51 PM
yes. it's not getting too hot - also good for your dremel tools - hard to explain, I would call it: you really SPAN the material??? sorry if completely wrong in English - just try  :D