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How-To: Make beach glass in a cement mixer

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How-To:  Make beach glass in a cement mixer
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Rich Faulhaber wanted enough sand-polished “beach glass”, AKA “sea glass” (Wikipedia), to cover a walkway, and didn’t want to spend the rest of his life combing beaches for it. So he figured out how to make his own knock-off version. [via Boing Boing]

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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