Lily Krakowski on sun 24 nov 02
Vince, you need to get out more!!!!
There is a ridiculously expensive soda pop, or plain mineral water, os
something like that imported from someplace, that is served in posh and
snooty restaurants in a lovely blue bottle!
There also are some extremely expensive lotions and potions meant to keep us
looking young forever that come in lovely blue bottles.
vince pitelka writes:
>> I saw an old post in the archives that suggested taking blue glass
> bottles,
>> crushing them up, and ball milling them as a means of getting free cobalt.
>> It would be like making a frit.
>
> Paul -
> It would be like making a frit with an extremely low percentage of cobalt.
> Remember, in a glass, 3% or 4% cobalt is enough to produce a very dark blue.
> Essentially you would just have powdered blue cullet, which could be used as
> a silica source to contribute some blue coloring to a glaze. But blue glass
> is not all that common. Do you have a good source?
> - Vince
>
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Alistair Gillies on sun 24 nov 02
A teacher at school has a neighbour who drinks Sherry that comes in good
blue bottles. She says that she does it to give the art dept blue glass
- its a hard job but someone has to do it!
Alistair
Shropshire, England.
Alistair Gillies
AGP Studio
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m markey on mon 9 dec 02
Hi Everybody!
Since I'm a tea-totaller, who rarely patronizes "snooty" restaurants or
drinks costly imported sodas, I found a few resources that have blue glass.
Here are some sources to check, for finding blue glass:
--Recycling Centers. Befriend the owner of a recyling center, and trade
clear glass for an equal quantity of blue glass. Where I live, there's no
difference in the scrap value of glass, whether it's clear, blue, green, or
brown.
--Bars and snooty restaurants. Find out which dumpster the bottles are
thrown in, or ask the barkeeper to hold a few designated empty bottles for
you.
--Abandoned houses in the desert. This is what I check out every now and
then, out here in the Mojave Desert. Urban and non-desert dwellers might
look in their rural areas, but I think the biggest collection of discarded
glass on public land is out here!
Best wishes!
Mohabee NakedClay@hotmail.com
Yucca Valley, CA
From: David Hendley I'm the one who mentioned a few months ago that I regularly use blue
glass to use as a slip-glaze ingredient and as a source of free cobalt.
Blue bottles are not common, but not rare.
I even recovered a blue bottle at the Appalachian Center for Crafts last
summer.
The most common ones are from Arizona Iced Tea (Memory Formula),
various wines, Skyy vodka, and the Skyy vodka "malt beverage"
that is heavily advertised these days.
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