Talk:Sea glass

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"It is easier to encounter during the summer months in part due to an extra hour of evening sunlight attributable to daylight savings time." -- that makes no sense! Or do people only collect sea glass in the evening for some strange reason? [Special:Contributions/24.6.161.157|24.6.161.157]] (talk) 07:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Does this editor suggest sea-glass would be easier to encounter in countries that observe DST, compared to those that do not? Removed. --GSchjetne (talk) 17:40, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Logically, the statement that more sea glass is found when the days are longer is probably true, especially because the longer days come with warmer weather, therefore, longer hours are spent at the beach. But if you want to be more scientific about it, an hour spent at the beach in the summer will possibly be just as productive of sea glass as an hour spent in the winter...no more. In fact, a winter storm tends to uncover sea glass that has been buried well beneath the surface. During the summer, surf erosive action tends to be less, exposing perhaps only a few inches of the undersurface each tide change. OdysseySeaGlass (talk) 07:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey now! I know nothing about collectibles, but this sentence "It is predicted in 20 years red glass will be worth as much as a large diamond." seems highly unlikely. Certainly it is not attributed.

Being a new editor I am going to sit tight for a bit, but am probably going to delete this line in a while if noone resonds to this.

There have been a few people quoted as saying that sea glass is becoming hard to find. While that certainly may be true of a few well-known beaches, in general, I believe that it is going to be a long time before there is a noticeable decrease in sea glass on most beaches. Why? First of all, there just aren't that many collectors. Yes, the popularity of sea glass is on the rise, but really not that many of us walking the beaches of the world. When you consider that on the same stretch of beach, every turn of the tide uncovers buried sea glass, it will take a long time to expose it all.

The first country to notice a decrease will be the United States and other developed countries, where people have the luxury of collecting. However, when you consider the BIG population countries such as China and Indonesia and the centuries of glass being dumped near the beaches there, the idea that there will be such a shortage as to make sea glass as valuable as diamonds is stretching things quite a bit. OdysseySeaGlass (talk) 07:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're absolutely right, so much nonsense in this article. Nobody in his right mind has ever claimed red sea glass is going to be as valuable as a diamond, I would say somebody has been writing off the top of his head.

Here is another nonsensical claim:

Artificially-produced, the glass is much less expensive and is used for making jewelry, but is often passed off as real sea glass.

How exactly is glass made in a rock tumbler less expensive than glass that is found on a beach? You could push it and say it costs money to get to a beach, for those who aren't in walking distance, but at any rate, these wacky claims stretch anyone's imagination.--APDEF (talk) 02:59, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

We're quite new to sea glassing but, based on our own experiences as well as info from the North American Sea Glass Association (NASGA), some colors are actually very limited, like orange, red, yellow, cobalt blue, purple, turquoise, "black", and Vaseline. As for the expectation of price that is found in this article, some are quite pricey already. Time will tell, I imagine. Hope this helps some. Iggy river 18:21, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Drift glass" shouldn't be capitalized, right?

It wasn't at the beginning of the sentence where I edited the "D" to be lowercase, so it seemed appropriate enough to do so. Please let me know if I was wrong to make this edit. Sorry if this wasn't worth bringing up (I have OCD), and also sorry for misspelling "decapitalization" in the edit summary.--Thylacine24 (talk) 03:06, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Salt is not needed to frost glass. We have very frosty glass in Great Lakes due to many rocks and high waves.

Whoever claims that freshwater produces less frosted glass is wrong. The primary factor is the amount of rocks and agitation Beachcomber322 (talk) 08:02, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]