Actually the only really tricky bit is the signature at the end.
If you have a lovely high res piccy of that then I can make the rest out of (thinx) either glass or false glass, Ill see what works. Smallest I can make it is somewhere around 2 inches across. Largest is, well, far too large for a pendant.
Real glass would have to be edged in copper or leaded so that teh rngs could be attached (oddly enough drilling small holes in glass is an utter cow) false glass I can leave the edges as they are and bore holes in it.
Are the letters intended to be cut into the glass and filled with colour so they stand out, or lightly etched into the glass surface ?
By my reckoning anything less that 3 inches across at widest point is good for a pendant. Real glass for preference, false glass if that works out better. Ooh - pretty edging! I've been looking into how to make copper/lead edged pendants, so if you don't have the metal tape stuff and solder for edging them then I can get some and do it =)
I hadn't considered colouring the letters as I don't think I have anything that could neatly do it - although there's likely some clever artistic knack to this - any ideas? If colouring is possible this would be a shiny thing, but if it's fiddly as hell then light etching would be much better.
I shall work on a proper signature and send you a scan =)
I'll take a peek in the boxes, but I think I've got the kit for edging glass still.
Colouring the letters is actually pretty easy once they're cut in, just wipe some paint/dye/ink across the surface, let it sink into the letters and then clean the smooth parts of the glass with a polishing cloth. Might not work too well on actual glass though, I've mostly done it on the clear acrylic that looks like glass but doesn't break into sharp bits.
Aye, bounce me a scan, black and white, as high contrast as possible and as high res as you can easily manage.
I leave the depth of the etching/cutting to your discretion and experimentation - since really when it's done and edged it's gonna look wonderfully shiny whether the letters are coloured or not =)
Meek, shall do the signature when I've done my daily prescribed amount of Grim's art I should have finished ages ago (very bad corvid, no biscuit. sigh.)
Square, pentagram, circle, spiraling in towards the center something else ?
Have layzor, can etch.
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My idea has a complex and a simple version depending on how much of a pain it is to do and how much you can be bothered to engrave.
The complex one was something like this:
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Actually the only really tricky bit is the signature at the end.
If you have a lovely high res piccy of that then I can make the rest out of (thinx) either glass or false glass, Ill see what works.
Smallest I can make it is somewhere around 2 inches across.
Largest is, well, far too large for a pendant.
Real glass would have to be edged in copper or leaded so that teh rngs could be attached (oddly enough drilling small holes in glass is an utter cow) false glass I can leave the edges as they are and bore holes in it.
Are the letters intended to be cut into the glass and filled with colour so they stand out, or lightly etched into the glass surface ?
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By my reckoning anything less that 3 inches across at widest point is good for a pendant. Real glass for preference, false glass if that works out better. Ooh - pretty edging! I've been looking into how to make copper/lead edged pendants, so if you don't have the metal tape stuff and solder for edging them then I can get some and do it =)
I hadn't considered colouring the letters as I don't think I have anything that could neatly do it - although there's likely some clever artistic knack to this - any ideas? If colouring is possible this would be a shiny thing, but if it's fiddly as hell then light etching would be much better.
I shall work on a proper signature and send you a scan =)
*excited gleeful neurons*
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Colouring the letters is actually pretty easy once they're cut in, just wipe some paint/dye/ink across the surface, let it sink into the letters and then clean the smooth parts of the glass with a polishing cloth.
Might not work too well on actual glass though, I've mostly done it on the clear acrylic that looks like glass but doesn't break into sharp bits.
Aye, bounce me a scan, black and white, as high contrast as possible and as high res as you can easily manage.
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Meek, shall do the signature when I've done my daily prescribed amount of Grim's art I should have finished ages ago (very bad corvid, no biscuit. sigh.)
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