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Stone, Water & Glass: Welcome to my studio!
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Saturday, August 22, 2009. Welcome to my studio! Here is a quick pictorial tour of my workspace, starting with the view from road. . The building sits on an arroyo that can run like a river when the monsoons hit. . It was sighted near an ancient Ironwood tree so that no major plants had to be removed and the builders hollered like hell when I wouldn’t let them take out or drastically trim back the thorny bushes from the site. . But it was worth it to preserve the trees and bushes. So, I store my tools...
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Stone, Water & Glass: Intimate Conversation - It Works!
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Monday, August 31, 2009. Intimate Conversation - It Works! Getting back to Intimate Conversation, here we are drilling the water channels for the “mouth” on the left. Because of the narrow working space I’m using a right angle converter attachment on the drill. So, the drill is connected to the right angle converter is connected to the water collar is connected to the core drill bit. You can see the small level I use on the drill bit just above the end of the drill handle. 3 Ways to Follow my Blog. To su...
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Stone, Water & Glass: Why I don’t Recommend Salt Water Pools and Better Alternatives
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Monday, August 31, 2009. Why I don’t Recommend Salt Water Pools and Better Alternatives. From time to time a question about salt water pools comes up. As you can tell from the title, I am not a fan and I will not put a fountain, sculpture, or spillway into one. Salt systems make chlorine to treat water by ionizing salt, sodium chloride, so that the sodium and chloride ions separate and the chloride is then available to cleanse the water. Good for your skin, but terrible for everything else. After talking...
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Stone, Water & Glass: A Trip to a Quarry, or How I Spent my Summer Vacation
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Sunday, September 6, 2009. A Trip to a Quarry, or How I Spent my Summer Vacation. The call came at 10:30 am – The quarry called to tell me that they had finished cutting and tipping over a wall and that blocks were on their way to the processing plant. At 7:30 tomorrow morning they would have slabs cut for me to look at. By 11:00 am I had packed, loaded the truck and was on the road! A group of quarries south of Albuquerque, a 6 to 7 hour drive. Red cliffs on the NM - AZ border. Instead, I used to time t...
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Stone, Water & Glass: Intimate Conversation - Part 3
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Intimate Conversation - Part 3. After the diversion of going to a quarry, I’m back to work on this fountain. Having drilled the mounting and water holes, the next step is to remove the remaining stone between the heads and then refine the shapes. I used an air hammer and chisels to cut away the stone. The picture below is part way through the removal process. Notice that stone has been carved away from the backs of the heads as well as from between them. But, if you look cl...
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Stone, Water & Glass: Intimate Conversation
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009. This is a piece that I started some time ago, but never got around to finishing. The idea is two people talking, heads bent close together, with a stream of water flowing from each “mouth” combining into one stream representing the convergence of thought or emotion. Here is a 3D sketch. It’s being carved out of a block of Texas limestone that is 48”h x 50”w x 7”d. These channels have to intersect with the water channels that I will drill later from the bottom on each side.
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Stone, Water & Glass: August 2009
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Monday, August 31, 2009. Intimate Conversation - It Works! Getting back to Intimate Conversation, here we are drilling the water channels for the “mouth” on the left. Because of the narrow working space I’m using a right angle converter attachment on the drill. So, the drill is connected to the right angle converter is connected to the water collar is connected to the core drill bit. You can see the small level I use on the drill bit just above the end of the drill handle. For this process to work, a sma...
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Stone, Water & Glass: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Intimate Conversation - Part 3. After the diversion of going to a quarry, I’m back to work on this fountain. Having drilled the mounting and water holes, the next step is to remove the remaining stone between the heads and then refine the shapes. I used an air hammer and chisels to cut away the stone. The picture below is part way through the removal process. Notice that stone has been carved away from the backs of the heads as well as from between them. But, if you look cl...