08/18/2025
Hi Everyone!
Long time again, I know… almost shameful, even. 😂
I think I found my new best friend’ today… for reclamation of glass, anyway!!👍
Tony brought me home a 21 and 1/2” circular outdoor industrial flood light “cover” from a scrap pile. It is a 4 mm thick piece, that only has a few small pits…
After removing the industrial clamp mechanism and rubber protection seal around it’s edge, I tediously removed all silicone with a razor blade. I cleaned away all residual grime, but though I used everything glass related I could think of, nothing would remove a “ haze” on the glass itself. It kept ‘reappearing’ after each different cleaner completely dried off. I was now somewhat frustrated and disappointment set in. I left it sitting on the red towel on my glass table, refusing to simply give up on it!
After researching as much as I could, I still hadn’t found how to FIX it!! BUT THEN!!!
I thought of Master Glass Artisian, Lesley Pyke King!! 🌺 She has, just this year , retired from an illustrious 50 year career in Glass Engraving, and has been my mentor since 2018.
I contacted her with my ‘plight’!👍 She told me EXACTLY what needed to happen! 👍
Today, I have a completely engraveable HUGE piece of glass! NO HAZE!!! Cerium Oxide has just made its way to my glass supplies, along with hubby’s car polisher! 😂
What a terrific product!! 👍
Thanx again to Lesley Pyke King for her wealth of knowledge and the willingness to share it to further our chosen art form of Glass Engraving!
Now I’ve only to decide what I’m engraving on it!!! 😂
👍🌺
JCT-2025 🌺