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Thanks so much, you two, for your advice. Clearly I'm out of my depth with refiring a bracelet. Will pass on the info to friend Judy. I think she has no way of identifying or contacting the maker, though. Maybe there's a cold solution, like making a couple of wire spirals with loop ends, attaching j...

Thanks, Cynthia. I'll pass on the risks to my friend. If she wants to go ahead, I'll follow your advice. Would 100 dph be slow enough for the ramp up? I would also slow the anneal way down.

A friend bought a glass cuff with an opening that is too wide for her wrist and the cuff keeps falling off. I think the cuff is 1/4 to 3/8" thick; will check when she gets back from vacation. I don't have a bracelet mold or room for one in my little side-firing Paragon Calder kiln. Would it wor...

Lynn, thanks so much for the link. What a great explanation!

Gail

Hello, after 5 or 6 years away from glass. Sold my Skutt round kiln and clamshell back then and have just started to play with my remaining kiln, a 7" shelf Paragon Caldera, and dichroic. In the bigger kilns, I only used tiny accent pieces of dichroic and didn't see any colour shifts. In this l...

Hi Tony, All System 96. The dealer just started carrying fusible, so it's all new stock. Base is clear; tack is coloured cathedrals. By the way, have used homemade kiln wash of kaolin + alumina and have used Primo; same result with both. Always bake shelves at 500 for 20 min. and let cool before usi...

Bubbles have been done to death, but one more time ... . I have been tack fusing small pieces onto a single layer of 3mm Spectrum. Wide, spidery bubbles form between the base and these little tack pieces. They raise welts on the tack that look like mistakes. This happens even with pieces 1" sq....

Thanks so much, both of you. I've registered for rubber.

Gail

I'd like to learn how to make my own slumping and draping molds from found articles. They'd be relative shallow. Not expecting to do kiln-casting or sculpture-like stuff. Am picturing the final molds being of something durable and have read that Mold Mix 6 would be suitable. So I guess the question ...

Phil,

Thanks for the info. Once I got into bail-out mode with the colloidal silica, I didn't think to finish it off by going up to 1600. Glad to hear the smell was just the binders.

I found Bert's post re colloidal alumina and will contact them. It's http://www.wesbond.com/wesolok_db.htm.

Gail

I'm a newbie, just tried to make my first mold out of fiber blanket rigidized with colloidal silica hardener/rigidizer. Put it on my only full kiln shelf and YECHHH, what a mess. Colloidal silica dries at a glacial pace. I tried drying it in the kiln at 160F (the instructions threaten to set the kil...

Gail's suggestion of a directory of Canadian suppliers is great. I'm forever ordering stuff from US websites, but later find obscure suppliers in Canada. "Obscure Canadian suppliers" -- isn't that redundant? :lol: If people want to send me links to Canadian suppliers (obscure or otherwise...

Thanks, Brad. May I post a new message inviting people to send suggestions to you? Or would you rather do it? Would you mind including companies that don't have a website? They are the hardest to find, obviously. Maybe there will be someone on the list you could hit up for board sponsorship. :) Gail

Thank you everyone. This is a fantastic board.

You've persuaded me that one way or another, I've gotta blast. Will start looking for a setup that will fit in the basement.

Gail

There is a lot on blasting in the archives but I'm still not sure, so apologies if this question is redundant: I just took a great blasting workshop and would like to get into it, preferably with a pressure pot and dust collector, but the only possible locations are my small basement workshop or the...

I bought a Skutt GM814 recently. Ordered it through a local ceramics shop. As "The Glassman" says, there is a difference in electrical requirements for Canada. I was told that Skutt makes them individually for us. It took a month to arrive (which beat some books shipped by US Post.) Maybe ...

I am a total newbie, nervous about opening my big yap, but here goes-- I am in the process of setting up a warm glass studio in my basement. Air quality is a particular issue for me, as in the past when anything with fumes has been done there, the fumes have take weeks/months to dissipate. I couldn'...