Up for Grabs....

[Robare M. Novou]

....is the following book.

http://www.amazon.com/Chipped-glass-man ... B0006Y5PQY

Whoever gets it can thank me later...

RMN

[erik winkler]

I have bought it before John Studden could, the dirty raskall....
I am not sure, but maybe it will be my second copy.

[DAVE SMITH]

Is it a good book?
Dave

[Robare M. Novou]

Its a small Soft Cover Booklet, Printed in 1979, and consisting of 23 pages of How-to-glue-chipping information. It has some crude diagrams and a few B&W picture samples of chipped glass.

I had never heard of it till about a month ago. I was rummaging around my favorite Stained Glass Supply Store (they always let me look through their library), and found it. It's not a major find, as it has about the same info as other glue chipping How-To Books....just not a lot of pictures. Still, it is one for your resource library or another feather in your cap.

I did a google, and found two...I got one for me, and the other I left for whoever saw this post first.

It reminds me of another booklet Printed in 1978..."How to Glue-Chip Glass". Published by New Renaissance Glass Works.
That booklet has 18 pages of text and B&W photos of the glue prepping process and well as the application, drying, and chipping of the glass. This is also one of the sources that Robert Mitchell learned from, prior to his authoring the famous "The Art of Glue-Chipped Glass Signs in 1984.

Have you seen the price of a Bob Mitchell book lately?....over $100 !!!....should of bought a truck load back then.

If you don't get the one I posted, keep looking around...I'm sure one or two will pop up sometime in the future.

There has been a lot of speculation as to the origins of chipped glass...according to the U.S. Patent office, Chipped Glass was invented by some guy in Austin, Texas around 1867. Austin!? Someone in Austin, needs to go the local historical society and do some looking for a decorative glazier.

RMN

[erik winkler]

For the record, this is the book:
Chipped glass: A guide to the manufacture and processes of the chipped surface on glass by the author: Joanne Nervo
If I find another copy, I will post it.
Thanks Milton!

Erik

[DAVE SMITH]

Thankyou both.
Dave