James AkersApr 21, 2025

Spent my Easter eating a delicious Danish Kringle with Ali and then made this doodle.

I am excited, its forbidden in a few ways. One of which is the tube sizes, which are fine tuned for brightness. That big bright white 25mm tube is thin lead glass- and it would take awhile to get it as hot as the 10 mm #blacklight tube, which will be made brighter by being the narrowest, most focused part of the arc.

On a bombarder, that would suck the narrow blacklight in. It is possibly the best combination to be bombarded in terms of glass heat sensitivity- buut I have an oven, so its baking out over night so I can make this the first try guaranteed :).

Hooray for Easter! After Minneapolis, I needed a day to sleep, and I still should send some emails, but I wanted to relax, and I feel recharged, -but there is about to be so much commercial bending.

Yaaay work!

#doodle #glass #neon #palestine #nicewarmwhite #rgb #4500k #muranoglass #leadglass #argonmercury #kiln #sculpture #brooklyn #nyc

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Here is that Doodle from yesterday lit.

Its hard to describe the zing that adding blacklight to the light mix adds, but the 10mm blacklight really shines. Usually the whites overpower everything, but when you can mix an match the tube sizes, then the brightness changes.

I do like the balance. Maybe a little more red next time. I also wanna change the sequence for three white an blacks as well.

It looks odd... but amazingly, you can get the mercury that close to the oven and it be 800 degrees overnight. I try an keep it close, to minimize the weight of the trap. If its too long an unweildy, it can crack before you get the mercury in or tip it off (and destroy the piece- mercury waste). Using a torch, You tip off after the bubble (after filling), then roll it on in and then tip off the mercury trap tail.

Okay, now I wanna play with more size mismatches and fun color mixes :)

#scupture #neon #doodle #palestine #blacklight #glass #nyc #brooklyn #ovenpump #howto #color #mercury

Apr 22, 2025 at 1:38amWeb