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"How to Make a René Marble"
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Author: JimBolesDesigns, Contributing Editor

A pair of insulated tongs is used to pick the marble up from the board and place into an annealing kiln. The tongs are covered with ceramic fiber rope, which is available from many refractory suppliers.

The Finished Product

The shots above are a couple of macro photography shots. I will be doing some posts in the future on how to do very close up photography for your glasswork. Yes, they are a little out of focus. The very small circumference of this marble causes problems with depth of field when doing true macro work.

But I like the effect of the macro shots. One of my personal end goals is to use my marbles as subjects for landscape prints. I want to do a cross between the marble/sphere maker Josh Simpson, the bead maker René Roberts and the painter Wolf Kahn. I’ve got a long way to go.

In the coming months I plan on working exclusively on René-type marbles. I will be glad to continue a thread discussing the many methods of mixing enamels with metals. I hope you enjoyed reading the article as much as I have putting it together. This is my way of thanking you for introducing me to these surface coloring methods.

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B i o g r a p h y

Glass Enthusiast. Glass Toys: 4 kilns (The largest to the smallest Evenheat.); 2 Nortel Minors, 1 Midrange; Small propane glory hole. Other Interest: Full woodworking shop; Philosophy; Fish keeping; Gardening.

I have been working in glass for the past 15 years (nonprofessionally). Over the years I've worked my way from cold (stained glass), to warm (kiln forming), to hot (lampworking and off-hand). Most of my experience has been in kiln work. I love spherical shapes so the marble is a point of study for me. My short-term goals are to master various techniques that yield random natural looking surface treatments to marbles. The long-term goals are to incorporate larger spherical shapes into sculptures of mix media, and to produce abstract landscape prints using the sculptures as a subject.

E-Mail: jimboles111@yahoo.com Web Site: http://



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B i o g r a p h y
	Glass Enthusiast. Glass Toys: 4 kilns (The largest to the smallest Evenheat.); 2 Nortel Minors, 1 Midrange; Small propane glory hole. Other Interest: Full woodworking shop; Philosophy; Fish keeping; Gardening.
I have been working in glass for the past 15 years (nonprofessionally). Over the years I've worked my way from cold (stained glass), to warm (kiln forming), to hot (lampworking and off-hand). Most of my experience has been in kiln work. I love spherical shapes so the marble is a point of study for me. My short-term goals are to master various techniques that yield random natural looking surface treatments to marbles. The long-term goals are to incorporate larger spherical shapes into sculptures of mix media, and to produce abstract landscape prints using the sculptures as a subject.
E-Mail: jimboles111@yahoo.com Web Site: http://