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2012-06-19, 6:31pm
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Rectangle Press
Does anyone make a rectangle press? I want one that's not curved like the crunches but flat...like a flat brick. I checked Zoozies and Catwalk and even the one in Germany. What happened to Mike's Brass for Glass?
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2012-06-19, 6:35pm
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Hi Sheila
Wasn't Cynthia showing something like that and saying a press might be in the works?
I think mikes is not making presses.....illness maybe?
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2012-06-19, 6:37pm
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2012-06-19, 6:38pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by glassymom
Hi Sheila
Wasn't Cynthia showing something like that and saying a press might be in the works?
I think mikes is not making presses.....illness maybe?
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I dunno...I must have missed that one. Maybe I'll PM her.
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2012-06-20, 8:57am
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I have the shadow box from cattwalk. It has curved edges but it's super easy to straighten them with a marver. It's a huge rectangle. I just use the bottom base (the flat side) and squish the glass in with a marver or flat top press then shape from there, it's really big. Really really big if I use the top of the press!  (ok big for me)
Oh you might think about a channel in the multi shaper brass tool like the ones that you roll the beads in to get a diamond, round or cylinder. The cylinder has a straight side cut out. You can use that to square out or rectangle out beads too with perfect sides.
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2012-06-20, 9:36am
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I need a huge one for focals...like 40 to 45mm. I can hand shape them but it takes longer.
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2012-06-20, 4:33pm
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http://www.cattwalk.com/tiles.htm#Large%20Shadow%20Box
Lg shadow box is 35x25mm. It pretty big but if you are gonna spend $65 on it I would get a custom tool that is actually what u want.
Oh any thought on graphite? Maybe a extra paddle laying around that you could just glue a few thinner slices to the top (the art stores have those preformed square logs in different sizes) and make the size you want? You could even ream out for the mandrel pretty easily. Use a dremel, if you make the mandrels hole a bit deeper you could just squish with a marver on top am be done. That would probably be really easy and cheep. I know there have been lots of people who have had huge success repairing bead rollers with superglue. That should work pretty good to hold the graphite together
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2012-06-20, 6:12pm
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Thanks for the suggestions Jaci. I think that Cattwalk rectangle maze might work. I can just smooth out the maze lines. It's the perfect size.
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