a good day today

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work was decent. Not great, but nothing to gripe about.

I found during lunch a deal on 2600 degree ceramic fiber frax on ebay... it's mine now and on its way to the studio. I'll be able to line the new gloryhole in the glass studio now. :)

then later I stumbled across a lot of k23, all seconds.. cheap on ebay.. seconds are okay, I use them for backup insulation in the furnace... that auction is mine too now. :) I now have about half of the k23 needed for my propane fired glass furnace. I'll be really neat to melt 50 pounds of glass at a time to work with. /grin

I finished lineing the new annealer over the weekend. I started to put in the element but ran out of pin wire.... This weekend I have to work at a friends shop at the local ren faire, but next I'll probably be able to get the electrical done on the annealer.. then we can test it!! then I'll have the BIG project done... I think this one is actually a bigger project than building the propane furnace.. that one is just mainly stacking brick... the annealer really took a lot of planning on how best to layer in the insulation and how much electrical to put in it to hold my temp.. and I'm still not sure if it'll all work out okay or not.. I've got another element I can throw into it if I have trouble holding temp in it....

hoping to get back to blowing glass soon now... (just in time for the summer heat) ;)

Found a cool military surplus tent that would be great to set up for the glassblowing studio... it's a truck maintence tent... it's 14 foot high, 20 foot wide and 32 foot long. :) I could so make this work for me... but it's expensive.... maybe I can find it someplace else cheaper....

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and the building of the compound begins... (ducking)