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2006-09-12, 4:09pm
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Arg! So jealous! Must...stop...lusting...after...everyones...studio .....I am...so....close.... but still deciding between O2 tanks and concentrator. Right now my mess is contained in a series of tool boxes and tubes to take to class. 
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2006-09-15, 3:14pm
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Crikies, if I have more than 10 rods out at a time I get jitters.
I'm sure I'd have some sort of seizure in your studio Shawnette. LOL
It's all good though...you like it that way and that's cool. You would probably have a seizure in mine. LOL
I pick up pieces of shattered rod with tweezers and put them in my water bowl as soon as they happen. When I'm done working my rods all get stowed and I dust-buster my work surface. Hahaha.
I'm not fun.
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2006-09-15, 10:32pm
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Slightly Askew.....
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Holy Mackerl!! What's a dust buster?? I have an inch of chards sitting under my torch. I keep thinking that I need to clean them up.....and yet finding the time seems impossible. Who needs to clean when you have things to create!
Charlotte
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2006-09-16, 3:24pm
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Hey Mary you are way to efficient for me, I don't even own a dustbuster,,, laughing Kerry
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2006-09-16, 5:58pm
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Me too Donna... If I start when the table is a mess I end UP with a mess....What's worng with me? LOL
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I don't know how in the world you guys can create in that chaos!!!! I have to tidy up before each session or it bugs me having things around all over the place. And I'm not a clean freak like my DH.
............However.....maybe I need more chaos in my life.......NAH!
Clean that stuff up! Ya'll driving me crazy. I hope I don't accidently wandering back in here or I won't be able to sleep at night!! Maybe I DO have OCD..............
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2006-09-17, 6:25am
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LOL, I don't have enough glass for that yet, but I'm at the sweep-up and clean up stage. For one thing, I find it hard to find things, and for another, as many people have said, I don't want vet bills from glass in cat or dog paws. And finally I am in the process of selling a house, and even the bloody garage has to stay relatively neat!
However, the setup one has is the setup one can work in. Folks who work with glass pieces all over the desk need that atmosphere to create; folks who clean up need THAT setting. As someone said, it's what comes out in the end that counts. We don't sell our workspaces, after all!!
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2006-10-01, 6:16am
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If you let me use your torch I'll bake and I make sinfull homemade Ice cream. Attempting to make the first exersize bike Ice cream churner. Use the calories then eat em pack up! He he
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2006-10-08, 10:27pm
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LOL, if you can believe it, I actually ASKED for the dustbuster as a birthday present one year. I know...I had a momentary lapse of some sort.
However, I use the darn thing every day for something or other. It's a good one too...sucks up dry or WET messes....like orange juice dumped from the breakfast table every other morning.
Anyhow, I agree...your environment is what you need it to be. My dinner dishes aren't done even now at 1:30 AM but by golly my torch surface is spic and span. LOL
~~Mary
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2006-11-03, 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by glassdog
I look at every body elses nice neat studio and wonder where I went wrong. I guess I'm going to have to hire a maid or better yet get an apprentice. Anyway I have always heard that "a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind" or was it the other way around? I cant remember. Oh well
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In your photo, the hand torch near the front what do you that for. I just bought one at a grage sale for $4.00 with two tips now I don't know why I bought it or how to use it.
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2006-11-03, 6:10pm
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Argh! Mike does some wonderful work in the space he has. Mine is about the same. It is a mess. I can't even get to some of the stuff stuck around. Will be happy to have the electricians come some time this month. They are waiting for the WestStar to come and look at the house power cable. So we wait. Yes I love the mess. At least I can't say I missplaced something. It is there.
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2006-11-03, 7:44pm
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hank torch
Hi Gordon,
The hand torch you see in the photo is my most used torch. It is a "Victor" welding torch, and I have a few different size tips for it.
I work primaryly in boro and have found that a "premix" torch works a lot better with the hard glass. The other torch you see in that photo that is standing on the flow is just a larger version of the same torch. And I have one more that is even larger that is not shown in the photo.
I have flames that range in size from 1/16 inch to about 4 inches in diamater.
I have used a lot of fancy (expensive) lamp working torches, but I always come back to these welding torches.
They are NOT good for soft glass though. You need the surface mix torch for the soft glass. And as you can see in the photo I use a Nortel Red Max. The Nortel torches work just fine for the boro also but you will not get the presise lampworking ability of a single candle flame as you can with the multi candles of a surface mix.
The reason the welding torch is not good for the soft glass is because being a pre mix torch it burns a lot hotter, even using the same propane and oxy as the surface mix. And the soft glass just can not take that heat.
So hook up that torch and give her a try. With a little effort and time you will master the premix torch for boro and then you will never go back to the others. (for boro at least).
Thanks
Mike
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2006-11-04, 2:21pm
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I am just so jealous! I can't wait to have that much stuff. I am still BROKE, so the stuff part is till taking way to long, but with the little bit that I have is in a wonderful state of chaos. You are my goal!
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2006-11-04, 5:46pm
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eyyyyyyyyyyyyy, and i was thinking only me is an chaos woman...wow, that looks like mine is always...
great, i feel now better.
thank you for showing me
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2011-02-12, 5:52pm
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I needed to keep my place nicer. I have a cat that will hop on ME and the table as I am working. If I can get him before I start I'll but him in a room.
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2011-02-12, 5:57pm
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It's about having fun!
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Me too!
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2011-02-12, 11:19pm
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I worked all day cleaning and reorganizing my studio! But like the desk pictures it will not last long. I work well in my chaordic room (Organized Chaos)
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2011-02-13, 8:26am
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Oh man. I can't find the smaller victor torches any more. They are gone with the wind. Now will have to purchas a larger model. Yes. Will go with that one.
Only my studio is not here any longer. Wait until spring.
Then it will be a disaster again looking for glass in the pile.
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2011-02-13, 9:42am
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I have to do all of my "stuff" in my studio. From beading to glass to packaging etc... Plus, we have our house on the market, so people are traipsing through at least once or twice a week. So I am like lots on here, messy while working, then clean up when done. It's twice as much work, but it looks like its a studio anyway : )
I love seeing everyone's workspace. Here's mine...
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2011-02-13, 12:13pm
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It's about having fun!
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I can't even stand to look at the pictures! Sorry, but I would go insane if my table look like that! But, that's just me! ;c)
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2011-02-13, 12:20pm
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My husband bought me a little shop vac, it's my new best friend, lol
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2011-02-23, 11:19am
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Crikies, if I have more than 10 rods out at a time I get jitters.
I'm sure I'd have some sort of seizure in your studio Shawnette. LOL
It's all good though...you like it that way and that's cool. You would probably have a seizure in mine. LOL
I pick up pieces of shattered rod with tweezers and put them in my water bowl as soon as they happen. When I'm done working my rods all get stowed and I dust-buster my work surface. Hahaha.
I'm not fun.
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This pretty much sums it up for me too. LOL I must add that I am a Lucy as in 'I love Lucy" and I just know I would be full of glass splinters in no time. It is mostly for my own safety that I keep things tidy after every session.
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2011-02-23, 3:00pm
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These pictures literally make me nauseous! I can hardly bear to look at them. I'm another shop vac person. I pick out my rods before each session and put them away after, and my work area gets vacuumed on a regular basis. Of course, I switch COEs regularly and use every bit of glass down to the last splinter so that makes it a little more important!
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2011-02-25, 7:51pm
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Here's what mine looks like after 8 hours work:
I love seeing everyone's benches!
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2011-05-04, 8:18pm
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2011-05-27, 11:27am
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Sometimes its not only the bench that's messy. In my case it's the whole room. When I do start to clean up I find myself rearranging everything too. This is just a picture of "normal" . It's fun to have a peak into others work spaces. Nothing special but here it is. 
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2011-05-27, 11:43am
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Shawnette....your pics cracked me up....I want to come and plunder!!!
Love all the glass...must.. get... more glass... soon!
I'm one of those 'clean up after every session' people...complete with sweeping and a wipe down....then I cover my bench/tools/glass with a large towel.
As clumsy as I've become in my.....er......late 40's.....I'd impale myself on a stray rod or step on one and roll to my death on the concrete floor, if I didn't keep it neat.
gotta have a neat bench...my jewelry bench is the same.
Just noticed how old this thread is!! 
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2011-05-29, 9:12pm
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If it works for you....... Perfect...... I have found with everything If I don't have a system that makes sense to me, it all comes back out in a worse mess than I started. Not their with the glass yet, so my table looks like yours.
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2011-05-29, 10:54pm
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I laughed the first time when I saw this at Shawnette's, that's awesome 
And mine is close just not as much stuff, only because I don't have that much haha. But that said, getting a rather large chunk of glass in my heel today..upstairs far from my studio..that I'm going to try my best to be much neater. This time it crunched as I stepped and I was pulling out teeny pieces.
I always wear shoes, even if it's flip flops  but I get way too much glass in my feet since it travels in my soles, and if I (you) walk anywhere wearing them it's bound to happen.
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2011-05-30, 9:42am
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This is my small space for glass. And my small area for putting jewelry together in the corner of the kitchen area. I have fun I guess that is what matters. I can sit and put jewelry together and watch my husband cook.(I have one of the sweetest most patient husbands in the world.) I'll have me a studio soon though. If you notice the map...I started sending Secret Santa gifts last Christmas and am marking with a push pin every time I send something to someone. Just thought it would be fun!
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2011-05-30, 1:03pm
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  so fun seeing everyones work spaces...heres mine
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