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Originally posted by Navy Chief
Eben, Think of all the cool sand you could get over there for your glass blowing.
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there ya go... before all the crap with the USSR and afganistan, there was a villiage that had a glassblower who blew glass using a ak47 gun barrell to blow the glass, and horse dung to fire his furnace made of mud and clay the villiage people would gather quartz pebbles from the river, sand from the beaches of the river and burn plants to make a form of ash... I dont know what happened to him, but if you go to the Corning Museum of glass there is a great video of him doing his thing..
sand is only a part of the puzzle to make the glass i use today in my furnace..
i also use soda ash and limestone to bring the melting temps down to a managable temp.. if I just melted sand i would be making fused quartz which melts some where around 4000° (i think) my glass melts at 2300° and has a working temp of 2000°