I'd been looking for a top one-to-one cold-cathode display making course and had asked everyone I could find who was the best person to go to - they all said that Richard Wheater <http://www.richardwheater.com/> was the man at Neon Workshops <http://www.neonworkshops.com/> in Wakefield (UK) ... it's the only place... BTW, Richard was responsible for the nice new "PEOPLE LIKE NEON" banner on the group homepage...
So, last week I went up t'north and learnt more in the hours I was there that I had in the previous 15 years or so of playing with neon. Like most of us, I have an understanding of the physics involved, but there are only a few who have got to grips with the glasswork side. Whilst Richard is an artist and not primarily interested in neon signage, I have a specific project in mind that required me to understand how letters are made - thinking this would be relatively easy, I decided to try to make initial letters of our children - an "H", "W", & "R"... What I learnt was that glass bending, especially with narrower tubes, is very tricky - I found it very tough, but extremely rewarding. Richard was sympathetic to my travails and helped me immensely - at the end, I was enlightened (literally) and now have an infinitely better understanding of what is involved in actually making tubes, as opposed to just wiring them up in subtly different ways. For those of us in the USA, Richard is running a "hot glass studio" workshop at Lite Brite Neon in Brooklyn from April 17th to April 19th 2015 <http://www.neonworkshops.com/courses.htm> . If any of you US-based folk want to do a 3-day, hands-on, cold-cathode fabrication course with a great instructor, this is for you... drop me a PM if you want to get more background or just if you are interested. Its great fun... Cheers Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/46dbe0ae-dafd-4906-950d-1416bb0f75c0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
