SO! The last few weeks, of prototyping Glass parts have been rough. Prototyping and one-off customs are heavy hearted cousins to long winded projects.
Glass casting and blowing are commercial elements of manufacturing often overlooked by the public, and even those in the industry. For these recent projects, making molds and having them finally fail, so thoroughly, It upsets me the students, faculty and Professors, were not able to foresee these issues, or even offer advice and guidance. Shame on you glass majors, shame on you!
fortunately, Over the last eight years I have been specializing in prototyping and one-off custom pieces. Failures and long winded projects are not a stranger to me. For the Next run, Were doing things commercially. And that means GRAPHITE. Milled, and Lathed Graphite. big BLOCKS of it. its messy stuff from what I'm told, But yields perfect results.
For the Next runa t these Harley lenses and lights, I am going to be casting glass with graphite. The goal here, being to make perfect run pieces, with a focus on numbers. lots and lots, made consecutively and very quickly.
Here's some videos on how the process goes down!
Both for Metal (very interesting science) and also for Glass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok79tUZhNCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoyrTMfDMtQ
very cool!
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