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- Sun Oct 26, 2014 12:37 pm
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Why is this cracking?
- Replies: 21
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Re: Why is this cracking?
Hi everyone and thank you so much for your opinions. I'm sorry to be so late in responding: I didnt see the additional posts until just now. I didnt re-fire the cracked piece, but I made a second one using the same glass as before. I used a firing schedule that I obtained from the fusing video on Bu...
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:23 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Why is this cracking?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 25685
Re: Why is this cracking?
Hi Marty.. thanks very much! I didnt try slumping this, as this was my attempt to fuse before slumping. I wasnt aware that there was an issue between black and clear; argh! The base is a white square, surrounded by black strips and then the whole thing is capped with a sheet of clear. I have Brads b...
- Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:27 pm
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Why is this cracking?
- Replies: 21
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Why is this cracking?
I have spent the last few months slumping just one layer and now hope to progress a bit.. This piece is 6 mm thick, consisting of 2 layers of 3 mm Bullseye. As you see it cracked miserably. Looking through the forum I suspect that my first temp is too hot, though I got this schedule from a book. (so...
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:56 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9764
Re: Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
Hello: I just wanted to let you know that thanks to you kind folks, my problem seems solved. I used the temperature that Stephen suggested, and have 2 nice, square dishes as a result.
Thank you so much for answering my very basic question!
Thank you so much for answering my very basic question!
- Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:08 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9764
Re: Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
Stephen, thank you very much. I will try a cooler firing.
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:18 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9764
Re: Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
Hi Elaine, and thanks so much for your reply. You know, when my first dish came out crooked I immediately thought of the temp. difference and wrote to Delphi, from whom I purchased the molds. They said that a temperature difference couldnt cause a result like this, but I'm still not sure. (I work a ...
- Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:06 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9764
Unwanted asymmetry when slumping
Hello, and greetings from Austria. I am very new to kiln forming and have run into a wall. I am trying to make small, simple, slumped dishes: my kiln is a Paragon Sc2 so space is limited to approx. 5" by 5". My fusing is going well, the pieces turn out as I intend, i.e. square. But when I ...