New Build Oven At Granite Falls

[JRPizza]

Bummer - you are going to have to find room to squeeze one in
PS - we live in the same neck of the woods, or at least close. I'm over by Martha Lake.

[man7sell]

Well now I'm selling the property and we have moved to an old (for the US 1889) house in Snohomish. Small backyard so what to do, build another but smaller one? I will miss my Octopus's garden.

[man7sell]

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BTW they are flat bottomed so perfect for the mosaic

[man7sell]

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Agree with V-wiz, I like the 3D effect...super job.


I have something I'm designing right now using glass tile...a mosaic for an outdoor shower. There's an octopus in there too, I was shopping around for bubble tile. Did you use a local supplier or online?

The bubble tile comes from pet stores, it's used for fish tank decoration. Be careful though because some is painted glass and not colored. It would fade. If you go online to somewhere like petco you can buy in bulk as the pet stores usually only carry a couple of packs

[stonecutter]

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Agree with V-wiz, I like the 3D effect...super job.


I have something I'm designing right now using glass tile...a mosaic for an outdoor shower. There's an octopus in there too, I was shopping around for bubble tile. Did you use a local supplier or online?

[V-wiz]

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That is too cool. Very creative and unique

[man7sell]

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The mosaic comes along....very slowly

[man7sell]

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Octopus getting glass mosaic, ran out before I could get him finished. Bought 7 pounds of the stuff and was shy by a good 3 pounds.

Notice the eyes....very cool when the sun hit's them.

[man7sell]

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Have not updated in a while, too busy cooking in the oven. This year is the mosaic exterior. Marine theme. Just started the octopus on top

[dvm]

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I've never considered it. I'll be interested to hear how it goes.

[man7sell]

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How did you heat a whole glass bottle to make it flat?

Sorry that was miss leading, I broke the bottle first then heated the pieces with a propane torch. Takes a little time but Oxy Acetylene I found to be too much heat too fast. Perfect heat I think would be propane and oxy, something I need to experiment with. I will also try building a small foundry using the left over fire bricks from the oven project.

Heating glass is an all new area for me.

[dvm]

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How did you heat a whole glass bottle to make it flat?

[man7sell]

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Try some of the commercial glass places. Most also do colored glass for churches etc. The one I went to had just about every color imaginable. I got a couple of broken drops for next to nothing. Aside from the color availability, the uniform thickness of the glass is a definite plus. Perfect for embedding in mosaics .

That's a good suggestion. I went to a glass specialist place in Seattle and bought glass rods to melt. Big mistake. The blue glass had lead in it and when it was melted it looked like lead instead of blue. Probably used too higher heat.

So different forms of glass use. The main background of blues I'm going to use the glass beads found in pet stores in the fish section. These glass beads have a flat bottom so perfectly lend themselves to the mosaic. Then glass bottles for forming the underwater vegetation. This I have to practice some more.

I created one fish using a piece of glass bottle heated and made flat and fish shaped (Luck more than skill.) Blob of red colored glass for the eye.

[man7sell]

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Sounds like a great media for creative juices. Will you use a light (white?) background behind then glass?

Yes, I'm using white thinset (like that used for setting tiles). Lets the light shine through or reflect the sun.

[dvm]

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Sounds like a great media for creative juices. Will you use a light (white?) background behind then glass?