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I’ve been using: 1-500°,1100°,10 2-250°,1300°, 5 3-300°,1425°, 5 4-full, 950°, 40 I found a basic bottle slump somewhere on the web that was similar to this. 1-500°,1100°,10 2-250°,1300°, 20 3-full,1475°, 5 4-full, 1000°, 60 It's worked well for my needs (stick a wire into the neck before firing, f...

Jim and Kevin, I haven't been keeping notes because I've been working with scrap/crap glass of unknown COE and my goal was to reuse rather than trash random glass objects. I have only been melting/slumping single pieces using built in profiles and one 'how to melt wine bottles' profile I found on li...

OK, I finally got another bottle I could play with. Process: 1. Cut off the bottoms and slump. One came out nice and round, the other was more of an oval. 2. Cut off tops so total height of top + bottom was less than 6" 3. Balanced round bottom on the narrow neck of the top 4. Used the COE 90 '...

What you say is absolutely true but where is the fun in doing things the normal way? ;-) Rught now I am playing with low risk (cheap) materials just to get a sense for how stuff melts and fuse and break. It's all good. I need another bottle to try this beer blass build. I will.post pics after my exp...

Thank you all for your replies. My take away is 'nope...not gonna happen'. When I said I was new to fusing, I mean, 'I have slumped 8 random bottles to flat and turned them into a wind chime' new... https://photos.app.goo.gl/gmEWvtUVxVAxaZCLA What I'm trying to do is as follows. 1. Take a 10 oz soda...

I am new to warm glass and have been messing around with slumping miscellaneous glass bottles; it's working. I have an idea for making a drinking glass from cut bottles fused together. This will entail balancing one piece of glass on another. The balance point is going to be sketchy so I'll need to ...