Shards?

[caiteet]

Along the same lines as the non-keepers post, does anyone keep shards? If you do what do you do with them?

I have several rubbermaid containers of shards either my husband or I thought were interesting. I plan to make stepping stones for my garden with most of them. I took a number of my glass shards to a girlfriend that makes stained glass. She made a wonderful window (21" square) for my husband for father's day.

So, what do you do with your shards?

 

[Wilkie]

I went to the bottle show in Auburn, CA a few years ago and there was this guy selling home made bird houses and he was using shards for decorations on the sides. Really cool little bird houses. I bought one and have it sitting outside in my wifes garden right now.

 

[baltbottles]

I try to glue them back together. anything that displays well after gluing i put in my bottle room. A lot of the ceramics in this picture are glued back from privy dug shards.

Chris

 

[mx961]

i have many boxes filled with them im a packrat LOL but i sure would like to see a pic of that window caiteet

 

[Brains]

as for my insulator shards, i keep shards of anything i dont have or thatsinteresting. I've got a small box of them in storage and a couple large specimens of really rare insulators on display. Sigh, a cd-306 lynchburg and a threadless 371 Mkee Co, both book around 500 bucks, and i did find them in the wild, but they are only specimens. Still, being found in the wild, it's good enough for me and i have them both displayed

 

[sweetrelease]

ORIGINAL: baltbottles

I try to glue them back together. anything that displays well after gluing i put in my bottle room. A lot of the ceramics in this picture are glued back from privy dug shards.

Chris
holy cow ,now that is a cool room my man!! looks good chris great job ,matt

 

[tigue710]

shards... a fun way to spend the winter! I keep things that I am trying to research or things that are interesting because of the context they are found in...
I also know a guy who buys shards, he puts glass windows on ebay made out of shards now and then, he had a few some years back with broken flasks cut in half and placed in them if anyone remembers them... he does beautiful work...

 

[bombboy]

I have a friend in Nevada that makes wind chimes out of them. This winter I plan on shaping and polishing some of the more colorful pieces into jewelry, kinda like the "sea glass" stuff. Lots of people use pottery shards, I'm thinking the glass will be just as nice.

Bombboy