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Fixing a hole in glass

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Roderick Treece
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Fixing a hole in glass

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I sandblasted a small hole in this custom mirror I am doing.Thinking I had ruined the mirror I gave up for the day. The next day my wife came up with the idea to put a pearl in the hole. I masked the whole off on the front and blasted the hole just a bit smaller than the pearl. Glued the pearl in and then fill the rest of the shell with pearl dust.

Saved !!
Thank's to my wife!

Roderick
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Tony Segale
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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easy, Treece, easy.

the first thing a glass blaster needs to learn is to take things easy.

perhaps your wife can teach you a few more things.
and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear.
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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I like it.
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Jerry Berg
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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There's some of that gosh darn MOP they refuse to sell me for some reason. Everyone in the world is free to buy it except me... for some reason. Sombody buy me some.

That looks good Rod.
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Roderick Treece
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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Jerry,
I took a look at her ebay comments and the funny thing is, out of some 499 positive reviews she only had 1 negetive review. The one from you. That still doesn't explain it. Just go buy it from Aqua Blue Maui.

I gotta go my wife callin me.
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Larry White
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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...very clever of you, old man......
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Roderick Treece
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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Clever, What Marrying my wife?
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Kelly Thorson
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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Yep, pretty ingenious!
Now that we have seen a picture of the mirror hole, let's see a picture of the whole mirror. :)
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Roderick Treece
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Re: Fixing a hole in glass

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Here's a photo of the whole mirror from the client

Roderick
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