Awhile back I bought a hand held grinder / polisher for taking out skracthes in glass. I got to thinking about doing a bevel by hand around a piece of glass so I thought I give it a try today. This piece of antique mirror is about 6" x 12" and it took about 3 hours to do. It's a very time consuming process but I love the way it looks. Next step on to something larger.
Roderick
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Hand beveled antique mirror
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Roderick Treece
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Kent Smith
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Re: Hand beveled antique mirror
Interesting but not much profit in your future. Looks even for a hand-held though. I use a local glass company source for beveling just about any glass for a per-inch price that I find reasonable.
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Roderick Treece
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Kent,
The bevel verys between 1/4 and 5/8". Some ideas just aren't conceived with profit in mind. If I did get an order for one I would have a shop do it. One thing that is hard is find a shop that can do very intricate work. My glass supplier does flat bevel for very reasonable prices but can't very complicated work like this.
The bevel verys between 1/4 and 5/8". Some ideas just aren't conceived with profit in mind. If I did get an order for one I would have a shop do it. One thing that is hard is find a shop that can do very intricate work. My glass supplier does flat bevel for very reasonable prices but can't very complicated work like this.
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Patrick Mackle
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Nice mirror Rod.
Original mirrors of the style you made were at one time done on a big conical shaped horizontal stone wheel to rough them out,
then polished on a big felt wheel using red iron oxide and tallow. I bought two complete old Lange beveling set ups back in early 1980's
which included a whole heavy 55 gallon drum of red iron rouge polish. The old man that I bought the set ups from warned me that the red rouge is really messy
and gets into everything! Days later, curiosity got the better of me and I opened that big ol' drum. Rouge is very much like stamp pad ink.
Sure enough, as careful as I was I had red rouge all over my hands and soon it was on my jeans and work benches. Sort of like Pandora's box, best left closed.
Industry eventually switched from rouge and pumice to the current choice, cerium oxide. Cerium oxide is also pretty messy, but for the most part, water soluble.
Pat
Original mirrors of the style you made were at one time done on a big conical shaped horizontal stone wheel to rough them out,
then polished on a big felt wheel using red iron oxide and tallow. I bought two complete old Lange beveling set ups back in early 1980's
which included a whole heavy 55 gallon drum of red iron rouge polish. The old man that I bought the set ups from warned me that the red rouge is really messy
and gets into everything! Days later, curiosity got the better of me and I opened that big ol' drum. Rouge is very much like stamp pad ink.
Sure enough, as careful as I was I had red rouge all over my hands and soon it was on my jeans and work benches. Sort of like Pandora's box, best left closed.
Industry eventually switched from rouge and pumice to the current choice, cerium oxide. Cerium oxide is also pretty messy, but for the most part, water soluble.
Pat
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