Re: The Spectra sundial (Sundial Window Business)

[John Carmichael]

Subject: Sundial Windows Business   This would be a neat new sundial business: How about a sundial business that will engrave a custom "frosted" window sundials on existing or new glass panes in a window? After receiving an order, you design the stencil and the sandblaster would come to the home or office and sandblast on site, or the pane would have to be removed and sent to the sandblaster's studio. Or, to make things easy, the customer just places an order for a new pane of desired dimensions and glass type and thickness and receives it with a sundial engraved. You could leave the sundial window pane and gnomon installation up to each customer, that way you could ship internationally. I don't know how you would attach the gnomon though (bolted maybe?).   Side note: I've always been too scared to offer my customers declining and or reclining sundials, unless they are local and I can personally visit the site. Not because I don't know how to design them, but because I cannot trust the customers to measure a wall's declination and inclination correctly. Even for an experienced dialist and surveyor, this is a challenge. I can just hear the customer complaining to you that his expensive new sundial doesn't work (because he took the measurements wrong).  I wish we could come up with an easy fool-proof method that an ignorant non-dialing customer could use to determine a wall's declination. I wonder if you and the customer could trust a hired surveying company of some sort to measure the window's declination?   Jim, I noticed you are offering declining Spectra Dials. How have you solved the problem of declination measurement?   John   John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA   Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: J. Tallman To: Sundial List Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: The Spectra sundial Hello All, After a considerable amount of fiddling around, I finally have a link where you can go to see the new sundial I have been working on. Since I have asked several questions on this list during the course of this project, I thought some of you may like to see the end result of those discussions. The link to the portion of my site where you can find the sundial is http://www.artisanindustrials.com/objects.html. I would like to once again thank all of you who have helped me out during the process, and I hope that you will not be disappointed with the end result. Regards, Jim Tallman Artisan Industrials