blacksmiths, I have a question...

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He wants to go into Engineering/Physics.
He is interested in energy production.

I think he is one of those people who always knew what he wanted to do.
He has always wanted to be an inventor. He has always wanted to understand how things work.
...and from a very young age, he took all of our stuff apart.

 

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Here is the window
From the outside:

From the inside:

And the gas forge that some of his friends made him:

I still have some landscaping that I want to do for the bottle window end.
I'll post that when it gets done,

 

[scottcaddy]

Thanks for the pic's!

The bottle window is real nice, what did you set the glass in before the wood frame?
Thanks Much!
Scott

 

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I spent a long time searching on the internet before I decided either it is some trade secret, or it must not be any big deal.

My husband made a frame to fit into the window space.
We set the frame into some moist sand and wiggled the bottles down into the sand so that the mortar would not envelope the entire bottle on the back side.
The mortar thickness might be about two inches.

When we went to stand it up, the mortar started to slide out of the frame, so we got some doweling and counter sunk some screws through the frame into the dowel rod to cinch the frame in.

I keep expecting to find it collapsed, but so far so good.
I think next time we will run rods or cables across the middle of the frame and attach it to the wood, maybe it will give the mortar something to adhere to besides the wood.

or I even thought if I had long nails running into the mouth of the bottle, I do not know. We have the upper parts left to do. I do not know what the are called, the peak parts above the walls? My husband got the window making bug. He had a lot of fun making it, so maybe I have a bottle house in my future.

 

[scottcaddy]

I spent a long time searching on the internet before I decided either it is some trade secret, or it must not be any big deal.

My husband made a frame to fit into the window space.
We set the frame into some moist sand and wiggled the bottles down into the sand so that the mortar would not envelope the entire bottle on the back side.
The mortar thickness might be about two inches.

When we went to stand it up, the mortar started to slide out of the frame, so we got some doweling and counter sunk some screws through the frame into the dowel rod to cinch the frame in.

I keep expecting to find it collapsed, but so far so good.
I think next time we will run rods or cables across the middle of the frame and attach it to the wood, maybe it will give the mortar something to adhere to besides the wood.

or I even thought if I had long nails running into the mouth of the bottle, I do not know. We have the upper parts left to do. I do not know what the are called, the peak parts above the walls? My husband got the window making bug. He had a lot of fun making it, so maybe I have a bottle house in my future.

Do you mean the gable end? That would look SO Fantastic!! and what nice inside light da-boot.
Thanks for the reply, I really like the bottle window!
Scott