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She is amazing! Isn't she?!?!
You've only been making beads for Nine Months?! I yam impressed. Kandice ~~ Sooz ------- ESBC Dr. Sooz's Bead Links http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~ A. A. Milne |
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"D Brock" wrote: Hi Kalera: One other thing to keep in mind as you decide: are you closer to one or the other? AIM is Corvallis Oregon, I think Jen-Ken is in the east somewhere. (Don't know if you have located distributors close to you.) But maybe if you're close, you can pick up and save some shipping? And for kilns, shipping could be fairly significant. (Those of us in the Portland, Oregon, area are pretty lucky kiln-wise: Skutt is here, EK Miller (Fusebox) is here, AIM is down the road in Corvallis, I think there's someone manufacturing toolbox/mailbox annealers on the coast...) --Dave P.S. Got a good laugh about your comments on building your own controller --- first "I may build it myself", then "I don't really have time to build my own, do I?" I go through that internal argument on so many things all that time (most recently on rebuilding a malfunctioning oxygen concentrator myself...) Jen-Ken finally won out... I seriously considered the Skutt, but had concerns about the depth of the kiln, and also the AIM, but prefer a hinged top lid to a stacking type. I'm not good about having a clean flat surface in my work area, so I'd never have a good place to set the lid down! In the end, I got what I think was a great deal ($513, with a Bartlett controller) on the Jen-Ken bead annealer from Centre DeVerre, and shipping was only $30. With my darling husband's encouragement and support, I took the plunge and dipped into my "backup money", and ordered the kiln last night, forgoing my usual months of obsessing and comparing and agonizing. I decided to get the cheapest (good) kiln I could find with the features I need, so I can have it as soon as possible. So, here we go! Wish me luck! (Oh, and the dialogue about "do-it-myselfing"... I do that all the time too! In the end, I rarely really have the time for doing it myself... but it takes me a while to reach that conclusion, every time!) -- -Kalera Mom of Juliet, 5, Sam, 3, and Ophelia, born 5/31/03 Wife of the incomparable Moxley of www.spaceplex.com See us at www.strattonhome.org |
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Deirdre S. wrote: Yay! Have a great time with your toy... What happens to the old kiln, now? Is it still the right one for fused glass? Deirdre It is... It's a great fusing kiln, I couldn't be happier with it for that application. In fact, I like it so much that I looked for an Evenheat bead kiln, but they just don't have anything suitable. Their Hot Box is soooo close, if they'd only put a bead door on it! C'est la vie. I fuse about one in a blue moon nowadays, but there are one or two of those per year, right? At one point my plan was to replace all my dishes with fused glass, but I have this problem; I keep giving away what I make. I can't seem to help it. So, I have one fused plate. That's it. One. Actually, I'm not positive I have that anymore. -- -Kalera Mom of Juliet, 5, Sam, 3, and Ophelia, born 5/31/03 Wife of the incomparable Moxley of www.spaceplex.com See us at www.strattonhome.org |
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