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These are questions you could possibly have better answered if you contacted the professors at Alfred University or took a course there. Devitrification is started by a 'seed' for lack of a better term which could be the tiniest imaginable speck of dust or chemical combo on or within the glass. You ...

Digitry have as part of their system, little sending unit boxes which are fed by the thermocouple and then can be sent via 3 conductor 14/2 house type wire to the controller. No need to be close to the kiln with the digitry controller. The sending units also have a feature where they will buzz loudl...

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They can probably flame lathe a precision curved surface for you out of boro or quartz glass.
I'd guess no or little grinding would be needed.

I've had no problems with the series of heavy solid fused crushed glass masks I made in 1992 with copper wire embedded in the back for wall hanging. The best hanger was 12 gauge copper wire bent in a U and pushed deeply under the crush prior to melting. Your experience may vary.

optically bond them and then grind your telescope lens.
You would want to use some optically clear glass as well not float glass.

The usual way to get small powder coating jobs done is to find a powder coater and ask the guys in the back to put the pieces through on the end of a run and you gift them something they would value in return for the favor. Of course done that way the headers might come out Bright Pink if that was t...

The link when I click on it takes you to a scrolling series of photos the first of which is a barnboard pattern table with various things on top of it. Don't blink the scrolling is speedy. It gives the idea of what the table looks like. Obviously they could move things between locations and in this ...

Nice table Bert. It is underneath all the stuff they are selling. Barn board pattern shows well despite all the stuff sitting on top of it.
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impressive Don,
Took a while between creation and the install.

Like everyone else outside the US, you have them crate it up and arrange the shipping and pay the lower price for buying in bulk. Then we have the added cost of dealing with customs brokers and paying government taxes and local delivery costs. Alternatively find someone going out of business, rent a...

I can't see the aphids! Lupins always have aphids. LOL
Great job done!

Merrygoround glass had a wonderful orange/red opal with irridized oil slick finish that when fired, came out in one piece but crumbled when touched. The joys of early kiln work with incomplete knowledge of the glasses or the firing characteristics. The irid survived nicely wrinkled but that was it. ...

Decades ago before the days of 96, Spectrum made a wonderful irridized product on Baroque glass. So I bought a crate of it. Fired it up low temperature and made vases which can still occasionally be seen for resale online. However I would not have bought that glass if I had known prior to delivery t...

Great idea Tony. BonAmi being limestone is the same stuff as whiting which is calcium carbonate which is limestone.
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Whiting. Also have to remember that the opal glass with the problem is by its very nature a devitrified glass. Once devit has started as in the glass was devitrified to create the opalescence, it is more subject to other things that may devitrify it like the stickers or even glass sucker ring marks....

Nice work Ed, The tops don't have to be cut off if you drop the vase onto a nice wide base and fuse them together all at the same time. Takes making a few duds to get it all perfectly done. :lol: And all you thought you had to do was perfect the timing and temperature of the drop? Don't forget the v...

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Richard LaLonde gives classes where backings are created as you describe.

It is really easy to explain my glass to studio visitors as 'I make grilled cheese sandwiches of glass'.
Then they understand the 'process' and can just enjoy the eye candy.
Dumbing down can sometimes be helpful.