Posted by Daniel H on December 13, 2017, 11:16 am, in reply to "Re: beach glass"
Edited by board administrator December 13, 2017, 12:13 pm
1) Making something that shows off the full features of the glass and is appreciated
by others e.g. on display. Like the Christmas tree or jewelry.
2) Making something that hides most of the features of the glass e.g. putting the
glass into cement to make a table. (I have seen this tried several times, never
with very good results. It is equivalent to taking anything wonderful and
hiding 70% of it.)
3) Putting the glass into a box and storing it in your closet.
4) Taking one piece as a souvenir / reminder vs taking a hundred pieces.
5) Using real beach glass where making your own would do just as well.
Currently I am doing #3...SAD. I may give it to someone who was going to
do a great #1 but will probably do as you were thinking just putting it back.
I so enjoy looking for and finding beach glass, picking it up, touching the
once sharp now naturally worn semi smooth by the sand surface. Finding
one that is Done (no clear surface on any part of the glass) isn't easy, I throw
those that are not done back for more sanding.
Have you ever thought about the origin of the glass, how it got there to begin with?
Say some people are drinking on the beach, they get drunk and careless and
break a bottle and don't clean it up. Others are silently cursing them for
being so obnoxious, yet years later that same glass brings such joy to many
others. From really sad to really glad. Judge not eh?
I also have 950 cobalt blue Tequila bottles which I have been waiting
for the right idea to use them on. So far the winner is breaking them, putting
them into a tumbler to get them started (and take off the real sharp edges)
and then sowing the beach with them from a Kayak about 200 yards out.
They would end up on the beach over the future years and would change
the status of blue glass from extremely rare to more common. I may also
make a website or something printed to show the people at the beach bar
drinking the Tequila which produced the bottles used. It might turn out
to be one of those things that people talk about in the years to come
i.e. the way it used to be.64
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