I would be very interested to see the final result, since I’m having a hard time visualizing it from the description. But the combination of textured wood and glass sounds very interesting.
A lot of people have been saying that, including the clients. But they love the idea and are willing to see where it goes. I guess I just look at things a little differently.
would be fun to roll around in! Your designs are great!
It’s been a while.
Great. I learn something every time. Love it.
Been a while, here’s a quick no plugin option for a tapered curve.
Handy for making an Elf Hat since we are heading into that time of year.
I did miss the context menu option from the screen grab, it is just Weld Edges.
Always great to see your stained glass pieces. Stunning job!
Dude, your name came up in @TheOnlyAaron live stream today because he had to draw a stained glass window. Everyone reacted with: that’s a job for @Box!
I had a quick scan of Aaron’s stream, he could have referred to this old thread.
I must admit the voice and face filters put me off watching it for long.
yeah. I had it on mute for some time because that was weird 
How long did it take to do that piece from the concept to the finished product?
How long is a very complex question. Commissions can drag out for a very long time, particularly with churches as you usually have to go through a committee and they all want to have their say. So from concept to completion is often well over a year, sometimes years. Just getting a full understanding of what they want even before putting pencil to paper can take months, then when you do start working with an actual design multiple people will want to come and look and have ‘suggestions’. Eventually you have a finished ‘Cartoon’ (black and white full size charcoal sketch) which they hang onto for ages trying to get a consensus from their committee…
Then comes colour and choosing the various types of glass.
I think you see where this is going.
But ignoring all that, a panel like that, which is actually only the middle panel of three, it has a top and a bottom to go with it, could be done in about 6 to 8 weeks. Cutting the glass would take a few days to a week, painting would take several weeks depending on how many firings were needed, leading a couple of days, puttying, polishing, detailing and finishing a couple of weeks. But nothing happens in a vacuum. Remember that committee, they will want to come and look at all the different stages and each of those visits will delay things and they would never all come at the same time.
So, How long is a piece of string?
I have customers/clients like that,: ‘We’d really like to have it by xx/xx\2024.’ By the time they approve drawings it’s two months later, then you start and ‘we were thinking it be great if…’
It used to drive me nuts but now I expect it. LOL
You do beautiful work and all on a boat!
Great view too!!
I was digging through some boxes of old stuff today and found quite a lot of predigital photos of some of my work from the last century.
This one in particular would have been so much simpler to design if sketchup had been available then. This was early 90s, pre computer in todays sense. From memory over 900 individual hand cut pieces of glass, each one angled by a few degrees to create a wave effect. And each had a fibre optic filament leading back in sequence to several light projectors running hand made glass colour wheels to create an undulating colour shifting northern lights effect through the glass.
The only part that was in any way computer generated was the three 20mm thick pieces of glass that made up the central viking prow. I hand drew the shape I wanted on a large piece of paper and sent it off to a company in Scotland that had a fancy new water jet that could cut glass. They scanned my drawing so the computer could cut it. I still had to hand finish them as the water jet wasn’t a clean cut.
And you tell the young people of today this and they don’t believe you.
Superb, glad to see real Artisan work at its’ best. Also, I love the 4 Yorkshire men reference- I wonder how many will understand?
Marty Feldman freaks me out, … and at the same time was great.
Cardboard box? Aye, you were lucky.