by Anna Alsina Bardagí | Aug 28, 2017 | Casting tips, Glass art blog
After a glass sculpture is fired in the kiln, the first result is an opaque surface. The piece needs to undergo several stages of grinding and polishing to achieve optical transparency. Cold work is a time-consuming process. I use a vibrating lap machine, which works...
by Anna Alsina Bardagí | Aug 2, 2017 | Casting tips, Glass art blog
This video shows one of the most tedious parts of the glass polishing process. Cleaning up the eccentric grinding machine to make sure it’s not contaminated from previous silicon carbide grit. Of course, this speedy timelapse took me over an hour in real...