I have been taking up carpentry this evening. I needed to make a frame of sorts to fix two glass sheets into. One has a ceramic decal fused to it, the other is a water jet cut design. Both designs were drawn in Adobe Illustrator, both were emailed to the appropriate company, to be made.
The ceramic decal was printed by a company in Stoke on Trent called Tadema Designs. They are very good to deal with and the end result of my image is excellent. Traditionally used for putting images onto ceramics, the technology has developed so that they now fuse on to glass sucessfully.
The water jet design was completed by a company in Estover, Plymouth called unsurprisingly WaterJet Co. Initially the glass fractured when they tried to cut it, so I modified the design. The end result was great, would love to do more of both processes.
This is the Water Jet cutting machine and below is my design cut into the glass
Next is the ceramic decal after fusing, awaiting removal from the kiln
So I had to come up with a simple way of combining the glass images, one in front of the other and wall mounted. I wanted to use stainless steel cables and clamps, but it was a very expensive method. I consulted a few of our talented technicians, and got a few ideas. In the end I designed it myself, and will post pictures as soon as I can. Here's hoping it all works well.
The ceramic decal was printed by a company in Stoke on Trent called Tadema Designs. They are very good to deal with and the end result of my image is excellent. Traditionally used for putting images onto ceramics, the technology has developed so that they now fuse on to glass sucessfully.
The water jet design was completed by a company in Estover, Plymouth called unsurprisingly WaterJet Co. Initially the glass fractured when they tried to cut it, so I modified the design. The end result was great, would love to do more of both processes.
This is the Water Jet cutting machine and below is my design cut into the glass
Next is the ceramic decal after fusing, awaiting removal from the kiln
So I had to come up with a simple way of combining the glass images, one in front of the other and wall mounted. I wanted to use stainless steel cables and clamps, but it was a very expensive method. I consulted a few of our talented technicians, and got a few ideas. In the end I designed it myself, and will post pictures as soon as I can. Here's hoping it all works well.
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