I am an artist, I work extensively with hot glass. You can see some work here:
www.joshuasteindler.com/sculpture.html
www.joshuasteindler.com/pws.html
I feel qualified to make just about anything from glass, in either borosilicate or soda lime (heavier, probably more of a sustained tone). However, I don't work cheap.
It's too hard and expensive to do. Basically, I want to gauge interest in whether you guys would want me to make bars/slides and what is the most I could ask for them and expect sales. I can do ANYTHING color wise. Probably all shapes are doable. There is a good amount of work in making such things. I noticed someone wanted a bar with a loop on the top for fingers, I could do that too, in any number of ways, I play with one myself. I also could copy any bar fairly close to perfectly. Send it to me I can make a mold out of rubber and go from there.
Anyways, feel free to educate me, let's see if you guys are interested.
I'm the kind of person who if someone is not happy I would either fix it or refund no questions, so hopefully that takes the unknown factor out a bit.Also, if you have anything you need made I can probably do it. I would be more interested in creative things then repairs though, but I do know some good people, so feel free to shoot me a note.
Small scale glasswork has only recently become affordable and commonplace. I find that tone is greatly affected by two things. Mostly weight changes sustain it seems, to oversimplify it, and the way the surface bounces off the strings makes for a bit of the tonal quality. Less weight is a bit duller too. I find glass a bit "glossier" then metal, as it doesn't have the ring to it when the strings hit, with the sustain varying by weight. It has more sustain then ceramic but less then metal by size. Ceramic if glazed actually has a small layer of glass on the surface of it. I could put metal inserts into it, that's a bit more machining then optimal. I'm sure the materials internal resonance has something to do with it too, but I suspect glass will not dampen the tone as much as a ceramic would.
). I could fill with clear epoxy of some sort easily though. Will be better then a slide that goes on your finger, but not as good as solid. The epoxies I'm thinking of (hxtal) are not cheap.
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