Fundamentals of Surface Finishing with Richard Whiteley, Summer 2021 Studio Live Stream

[@sarahshanahan5648]

Great video. More on casting and cold working please!!

[@joe123452]

Great lesson, thanks Richard! Any chance you'll be doing any videos on casting hollow forms? Thanks

[@heywilli]

Excellent information Richard, thank you! I do your first steps but I hadn't considered finishing with pumice. I will from now on.

[@mikeybikey7201]

excellent lesson, thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you Richard

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

[@onjofilms]

Interesting. Getting into coldworking I picked up some good tips and different techniques than from the class I took there. Coldworking is definitely a different time table and universe like Richard says. You have to slow down your thinking and get into the Zen of it. Thanks for making this video.

[@CooperO90]

What was the casting material used to make the core at the end of the video? seems like it would be a very fragile component, curious what product can achieve that!

[@constantinradu6354]

GOOD ON YOU RICHARD, MOUVING TO USA BIG STEP FOR YOU LONG TIME NO SEE, WATCHING YOR VIDIOS AND LOVING IT RE CONSTANTIN SYDNEY.

[@marykubasak]

a bright, shaped, light source to see reflected would help showing the differences between degrees of sheen. maybe a ring light.

[@Tahoza]

So, if I'm reading this correctly, the theoretical maximum efficiency you can get on same type glass on glass grinding is 50% (and obviously some of this would be loss to heat)?

[@debrahealy9947]

What kind of glue did you use to laminate these pieces? This is fantastic, Thank you.

[@joshschneider9766]

Hxtal is a great option. Loctite makes a few optically clear episode as well.

[@debrahealy9947]

@@joshschneider9766 Thank you, I am in France I will investigate.

[@BathshebaSculpt]

If I'm casting with Bullseye, what's a softer glass for polishing that is readily available? (Supposing I'm not in a shop where there's a lot of lead crystal just lying around at random...)

[@josephflahiff5236]

Don't be afraid of cutting the emery paper with your scissors. when sharpening scissors, you actually cut sand paper with them! you are just making your scissors sharper ;-)

[@Tahoza]

The youtube compression is not kind to this video.

[@snoopanoop7705]

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[@Tahoza]

Yeah, the detail you want to convey does not show up in this video. That's not your fault. You just want to show high detail things which will require high detail equipment.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Grinding by hand _for days on end_ is illogical, unless you enjoy mindless tedium and repetitive strain injuries. Much better to use power tools.

[@ryanbohr314]

I can't believe your just breathing all that glass dust with out a care in the world ....