From left to right:
1) This one is small, but razor sharp. Have to be careful handling it. Seriously. Made from a vase my roomie broke the other day.
2) This one's not as sharp, but is pretty decent. Made from one side of a New Amsterdam gin bottle.
3) Made from the same vase as the first.... This one is a bit on the thick side, and didn't actually turn out that great. But I can't really keep hitting it without fucking it up bad, so it's as done as it'll ever be. Oh well.
1) This one is small, but razor sharp. Have to be careful handling it. Seriously. Made from a vase my roomie broke the other day.
2) This one's not as sharp, but is pretty decent. Made from one side of a New Amsterdam gin bottle.
3) Made from the same vase as the first.... This one is a bit on the thick side, and didn't actually turn out that great. But I can't really keep hitting it without fucking it up bad, so it's as done as it'll ever be. Oh well.
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Safety is a big deal there. I wear safety goggles , wear a pair of thin leather garden gloves, and use a thick leather scrap to actually hold the arrowheads in my left hand while i strike with a stone in my right.
I also don't do it with people standing nearby, because this does tend to throw shards of glass all over the place. I lay out a tarp and use a bucket to collect the shards I knock off, so that there aren't tiny feet-shredding bits left all over when I finish.
I do get cut from time to time, but it's usually not that bad, and glass flakes are generally sharp enough to leave a clean cut that clots fast and heals quickly too. Knowing some basic first aid and having a decent pain threshold helps a lot as well.
I also don't do it with people standing nearby, because this does tend to throw shards of glass all over the place. I lay out a tarp and use a bucket to collect the shards I knock off, so that there aren't tiny feet-shredding bits left all over when I finish.
I do get cut from time to time, but it's usually not that bad, and glass flakes are generally sharp enough to leave a clean cut that clots fast and heals quickly too. Knowing some basic first aid and having a decent pain threshold helps a lot as well.
It's good you take the proper safety precautions. I work with resin model kits a lot and often have to dremel out parts and things like that so I know about having to use a ton of safety gear and having stuff fly everywhere. It can be a big production to take all the precautions and deal with all the clean up, but you gotta do what you gotta do ya know? It just seem like whenever I have dropped a glass or something, no matter how good I sweep and vacuum that at some point like a week later I end up with one of those tiny glass splinters in my foot, lol.
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