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December 19, 2004: Crucible Gifty Sale and Open House
November 17, 2004: Plasma -- loading the kiln
November 10, 2004: Plasma -- third pumping
November 3, 2004: Plasma class, fall 04, second pumping
July 29, 2001: Last day of classes
July 28, 2001: Final for ''found object'' project
July 22, 2001: Working in the flames
June 16, 2001: Final critique
May 26, 2001: Bombarding mercury-argon
May 19, 2001: First project critique
May 5, 2001: Everyone doing some bending!


Crucible Gifty Sale and Open House
December 19, 2004

Bryson went to the Crucible sale --
we'd intended to ahev a full table of neon,
but just didn't pull it off in time...
Next year!

Meanwhile, here's some stuff that was in the show.



Photos by Bryson DeJong.


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Plasma -- loading the kiln
November 17, 2004

here's some pics of our pieces loaded into the kiln.

Note anything being soldered *must* be braced, because it can slide
during firing. Also, any bracing against glass requires some
kiln paper to prevent the piece from cracking against the brace.


Plasma -- third pumping
November 10, 2004

Here's more pieces being pumped out.



Photos by Kiki.


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Plasma class, fall 04, second pumping
November 3, 2004

This is Ed Kirchner's and Chrictian Schiess' plasma class at the Crucible.
This was the second batch out of the kiln to pump with gas.

Most of these pictures are Normond's globe made from two glass bowls
soldered edge to edge.

They are pumped with a mix of xenon and neon, which produces green fingers.

Pay attention to the sizes of the files -- there's some small but sweet movies!



Photos by Kiki.


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Last day of classes
July 29, 2001

Anne's colored strip,
and [I forget this guy's name...]
who made a framed piece in which the neon had to *just fit*.
He struggled with it the whole class...

But it looked *beautiful* when he got it done!



Photos by Kiki.


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Final for ''found object'' project
July 28, 2001

This was the final crit for the ''found object'' project for the class.
We were given a choice of finished pieces of neon
to build a sculpture around.



Photos by Kiki.


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Working in the flames
July 22, 2001

Snapped some pics of everyone working in the flames.
Folks had very different styles,
and objectives for the glass.



Photos by Kiki.
I tried to get at least one pic of everyone!


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Final critique
June 16, 2001

We all showed our final projects for the class!



Photos by Kiki.


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Bombarding mercury-argon
May 26, 2001

Our teacher, Christopher Scheiss, shows us how to bombard with mercury and argon.



Photos by Kiki.


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First project critique
May 19, 2001

This was the day our first projects were due.

We also had 5 each of bending a 90-degree bend, a double-back bend, and welds.



Photos by Kiki.


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Everyone doing some bending!
May 5, 2001

Turning on the flames and getting our feet wet!



Photos by Kiki.


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