April 6th, 2010 by Ron Branch

Booth-building series Click this link to read from the beginning post.

When I was hired on at Mercury Glass (I think it was about 10 years ago), Bob was wanting to bring his sandblasting operation indoors, and so once again the timing was good and I was set to the task of building another new booth. He already had great ideas on how it was going to work, but he left the details to me. By that point in time I had a pretty sizable wish-list of things I would want to build into the perfect booth, and he let me do most of it. It marked the first time I Read the rest of this entry »

dust, glass art, sandblast booth

March 15th, 2010 by Ron Branch

Booth-building series Click this link to read from the beginning post.

It was approximately 1995 – The new building was of block construction, was a rental, and although situated in an industrial area, had neighboring businesses to consider. These are common hurtles that often have to be overcome when building a sandblast booth in a commercial setting. There were also genuine construction issues to solve… what we came up with was not ideal – but it DID work … well sorta. Read the rest of this entry »

dust, filters, glass art, sandblast booth, Vancouver Wa.