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January 10th, 2011 1

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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