More on garden art, my most robust perennial...
- Subject: More on garden art, my most robust perennial...
- From: T* K* E*
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:47:41 -0600
1. Don't use traditional tile-set mortar to set glass on a bowling ball;
the coefficients of expansion between the BB and the mortar are too
different and the mortar will crack.
2. One neighbor uses Marine Goop to hold the glass on the BB and then
grouts the assembly with basic tile grout, in black or some other good
color. I haven't tried this yet; sticking things on a bowling ball is a
mid-winter type of activity and I don't want to be that close to all that
Goop indoors.
3. Somewhere on the web I found a discussion group for people seized with
the need to stick things on bowling balls. Try a search on google.com for
"bowling ball art." You will be amazed.
4. My neighbor with the best garden art in this part of the county paints
his bowling balls with black stove paint. It gives a rich, matte finish and
the stove paint holds up under any conditions.
5. Sources for bowling balls--ask a competitive bowler. I got 14 the last
time I was out looking for them--real bowlers chew through balls at a pretty
good clip. Lanes will dump balls regularly, but you have to be there at the
right time (or get in with the manager so you know when the next load of new
balls will be arriving).
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