Mud Season!
Spring has come to southern Vermont - the snow is melting. The dirt roads are still frozen at the bottom, thawed on top, and all that snow melt can't soak in so it makes a soupy, slippery mud on the road surface with deep ruts. To prevent damage to the Stellafane roads, we held this session at the Fletcher House in Chester. We hope to end the course next month at Stellafane. |
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Lap Mold
Jay made a lap for Gary with his lap mold on the back deck of the Fletcher House. The flexible
mold is placed on the mirror to give it the right curve. You can see the details in the photos below. |
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Master Chef Jay |
Pouring Pitch |
Removing the Mold |
Cerium Please! |
Tom observes |
Press On! |
Fine Grinding
We have a few students who are fine grinding. Claudio is having a good time, while Kim and Kayla seem to be more intense and focused on becoming one with the mirror. |
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AlOx Treatment |
Kim Concentrates |
Kayla Grinds |
Building A Dob
Jay gave the last lecture of the course, on building a dob, using Kriege's book and his own fine scope as an example. That nice custom paint job was not covered in the lecture, however. The Fletcher House has a comfy living room for giving talks in. |
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Jay Makes a Point |
Big Couch! |
Nice Paint Job |
Polish, Polish, Polish & Figure
Late in the course you expect to have a lot of folks polishing and figuring, and we do!
Here is a gallery of the mirror makers who are polishing and figuring. |
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Ray |
Gary |
Terry |
Fran |
Rick |
Jim |
Alex |
Alex's iPod |
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Surface Check
We caught a few folks checking their mirror's surface this session. |
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Samantha & Dave |
Dave Inspects |
Carl Checks |
Testing
There was a lot of testing going on, as you might expect with a lot of students figuring. But for some reason, we didn't take many pictures of this activity this session. |
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Randy & Dave |
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Social Time
Mirror Class is a great time to chat with friends. We had some guests from ASGH and ATMoB up this time, so there was a lot of opportunity to talk with old friends and catch up. |
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John, Dave & Julie |
Paul & Wayne |
Dr. Al & John |
Dick Parker (ASGH) & Ken |
Friends on the Porch |
Tom, Jay & Fran |
Fran, Dick, Tom & Jay |
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It's a Wrap
That about does it for this session. Here are a few miscellaneous pictures as we end the day.
See you all next month. |
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Pretty Pattern |
Kim cleans up |
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