Please, just dump BCO, worthless pile of crap it is.

It needs to unfuck itself.

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I've tried a few copper pieces for the experience and they were quite enjoyable excercises. Its just that I don't feel the marriage of a seductive media, such as glass, and copper is always successful one. Two reasons: First, copper, as medium, is laden heavily with references that must be taken into account when conceiving and planning a composition. For example, the Artist might inadvertently suggest something about industry or the production of electricity. Although the price of copper is increasing (as resources are exhausted), which one might argue lends a preciousness to the material. And second, its just been done too many times.

Also, I challenge the idea that ceramic can be successfully cast in borosilicate -- even partially. I would be genuinely surprised to see an example -- and a recipe for that clay body too!

1.STFU N00B
2. Last I checked , even the most simple glazes are GLASS.
3.prepare to be amazed and look at the nearest coffe mug in your house, what is that smooth coating on it? the one that chips easily and shatters?I think its called a glaze?!or is it glass?
4. I have encased many things in glass.the least of which , as far as difficulty goes, was clay, in soda lime glass, and borosilicates.
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5.STFU N00B

1. hmm, you only have 15 posts dude.
2. glazing and encasing are two distinct processes. I'm fairly certain none of the glazes I've ever used were borosilicate or soda-lime.
3. I do not own any glass "encased" mugs. I don't care to see yours.
4. again, i would really like to see something like this and learn more about it, like annealing times and clay bodies. that challenge was not meant to be offensive. I've been blowing glass for seven years under Jose Chardiet, Bill Carlson and Katherine Gray, so yes I am relatively inexperienced at it.
5. no. I'd rather post an intelligent reply thanks.

oh yeah, and your work is kinda lame.

"I've been blowing glass for seven years under Jose Chardiet, Bill Carlson and Katherine Gray"

So the fuck what?

All that tells me is you are a name dropper, you might think twice I guess if I told you anything more about myself.

Glazing, is the process of "encasing" a clay body with a silica based chemical compound and then "fusing" it to the surface of clay.evidently you missed the coffee mug 'joke' so dont sweat it. Vitrification takes place and the clay body becomes "encased" or"glazed" whichever, the end product is a piece of clay that is covered in glass. But i guess since you are a glassblower and not an artist this must seem very complicated to you.Maybe you have heard of enameling?

and as far as telling me about my work sucking, i wonder where you even saw it? I generally take it as a good thing when people who sound as uninformed as you do dont like it.All that matters to me is that I get to make my living from doing it, which is entirely irrelevant to you liking it.Could I see some of yours, or do you just play sycophant to your teachers?If you are genuinely interested you might want to look at the work of steve tobin, he makes clay vessels that are encased in glass(crystal NOT soda lime) maybe you could ask him how he has done it and tell him how bad his work is too.

Do you guys ever talk about anything other than pottery?

I am open to discussion , especially on the following:
General Bronzecasting, Glasscasting, Glassblowing, Time Travel, Physics, Brownian Motion, Telepathy, Recording Mediums, Metalurgy, Unanswerable Questions, Early Gnostic cults, Symbology, Depiction, Materials and their uses, Microcrystalline Wax, Theology, Divination, Action at a Distance, Quantam Mechanics, Freemasons, Entropy.

you forgot to mention moderate-to-heavy drug use!