Do you think it would work if you tumbled dichroic glass?
Tempted to try with https://www.creativeglassshop.co.uk/...lack-125g.html (once I have a tumbler!)
Do you think it would work if you tumbled dichroic glass?
Tempted to try with https://www.creativeglassshop.co.uk/...lack-125g.html (once I have a tumbler!)
I'm pretty sure you'd destroy the coating.
https://www.warm-glass.co.uk/dichroi...qs-cms-24.html
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Yes it is 100% Real sea glass myself and my partner pick from Seaham Beach. It is getting very hard to find now though as the beaches are full of pickers these days.Quote:
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Good to be back :)
Thanks
Mick
I don't get it. It doesn't look anything like Seaglass.
It has to be as it is :).Quote:
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Seaham had the largest glass factory in the WORLD in its day. Hundreds if not thousands of tonnes of scrap glass was dumped into the North Sea by them and over the course of 50 years the sea has shaped it.
I take the glass and simply smooth it further to a polished finish. You can pick some of these pieces up and they just look like black stone until you shine a light. Clean the outer surface up and it reveals the detail.
Sea Glass from other parts of the world is usually just beer bottles that floated away. The glass on our coastline has a element of history to it and the designs/patterns inside the glass vary hugely. I have rainbow, white and blue, red,white and blue, purple, multi shades of colours etc etc You name it and its out there if you find it. Some of the glass even contains Gold as they used it in the old days to color some glass.
We have found some bits the size of bars of soap ourselves and i once saw someone find a piece football sized :agree:
We get lots of people holidaying here now just to pick glass from the USA and Canada so we have something unique on our doorstep.
Mick
There is a beach at Dysart in Fife with glass just like that with much the same story
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Yeah Scotland has a few places as does the West Coast near Cumbria etc. Whitby has the jet too and Sunderland has some as well due to the glass works it used to have.
I am not just saying this though as we live there but apparently Seaham is the best of all.
They had to do a country file episode about it :'( Everyone is picking now haha.
Mick
That’s Countryfile. OH bought me a bag made from the stinkiest wool just because it had been on Countryfile. I made him give it to his sister for her bday instead, don’t think she was impressed either but she lives in Wales so I don’t care!!
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