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 In Turkey
the production of chandeliers and chandelier beams started in 1960
with the development of the glass industry and the facility brought
in providing raw materials and it goes on up today.
Although the
rather difficult conditions of 1960, the creativity of the persons
involded in this industry make them use glass bars and transform
them into the shapes and moulds they wanted to obtain. The cutting
stone, wich in reality had been designed to cut motor crankshafts,
was used horizontally for stoning and they have been able to obtain
the results they wanted to get.
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Another
problem for this people had been the polishing of these cut surfaces
and they went on in their researches with the "try and see"
method, fighting against technical impossibilities and indequacies.
The use of cork
as a ground surface for polishing has been adopted because it was
flexible and didn't scratch (mark) glass. |
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Aluminium
oxide diluted with water and transformed into a paste and it was used
for polishing.
But, unfortunately
all these works haven't been sufficient to reach a satisfactory product
and during twenty years we had to work with this technology.
But in 1980
there had been a great development and finally we could reach the
world standarts. We abandonned the previous polishing technology,
made discs out of serium oxide with some binding materials and now
we are able to get a high quality polish that do not abrade the designed
corners. |
The
last and most important thing we would like to add is that all these
works are hand made.
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HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO LABOR AND LABOR INTO LIGHT. |
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