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jolly wrote:For simple forms, I keep some sheets of stainless steel (22 ga. or so). It cuts with tin snipes, bends easily and lasts a long time. -Jolly

Where can you buy stainless steel sheets? I've tried the local hardware stores & Home Depot but they don't carry it.

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Suzan

After scoring the circle on light coloured opals, I use a black marker over the score line. This black lines shows up well over a light box. On dark opals, I use the circle maker with a marker (mine comes with a separate attachment for this) and guessing as best I can where the centre is, I mark the...

440000 is for "Manufacturing - Other Merchandise". I thought this one might be applicable too. I've no idea how it affects taxes. Re: the short form, if you're referring to the form for corporate filing, that, unfortunately, is not applicable to me as I'm the sole proprietor of my "ma...

If any of you Canucks use the "Statement of Business Activities" form with your Income Tax return, what "Industry Code" do you use? The only code which seems applicable is 454390 "Sales - Direct Sales - Other Direct Sales".

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Suzan

That reminds me...I went to a large craft show last November. I browsed at one kiln-formed glass booths, and the fellow came over and said to me that his glass company was the ONLY one in Canada that uses compatible tested fusing glass. He obviously didn't notice that at least one other glasser at t...

Educating the consumer is of primary importance. When I had my first show last November, many people came into my booth and gasped at my work, said it was beautiful, then walked away. People largely don't understand what kiln-formed glass is. One of the other exhibitors at the show said that the fir...

I totally agree with this outlook. It is one reason why I value my big kiln. The amount of time that it takes me to cut out a rectangle 78" x 20" is maybe several seconds more than the time it takes to cut out a 12" x 12" square. The cost of the larger piece of glass is about $2...

What I would like to know is what is the meaning of "powder", e.g. "the central design was achieved with frits and powders". Is this just fusible glass frit processed to a powder consistency? Spectrum uses this term on their frits. Or is powder something else?

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Suzan

Hi Paul! Thanks for this. I have been trying to buy a light box from a store that keeps forgetting to place the order! Did you need to do any editing in order to get the objects to appear cut out and placed on a uniform background, or were they shot against the same colour background as on the web p...

What is this "Ferro Frit #3419"? The numbering sounds like frits used for making ceramic glazes. Just curious.

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Suzan

charlie wrote: make large chads out of the same glass as the coaster base and cold fuse them on.

What's a "chad"?

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Suzan

Bryan-Zody I've been using Bullseye kiln wash and it works fine for combing. It does stick to the glass after a combing, but comes off with vigourous scrubbing. If there are trace amounts of kiln wash left, I use "Velvet Etch" etching creme to remove it. I recently switched to Primo becaus...

I've searched the archives and couldn't find an answer. Is Primo kiln wash suitable for high firing, e.g. 1700F for combing?

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Suzan

Very striking and fresh! Reminds me of Art Deco.

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Suzan

I regularly fuse then slump up to 3 plates at a time in my kiln, which is 17" wide by 13" high.

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Suzan

I'd very be interested in having an open house in my own home, but to date, my contact list for customers is tiny. How did your host determine who to invite? Colleagues, acquaintances, or did he/she advertize for anyone to come?

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Suzan

Suzan, thank you for the help. I'll take your advice & get quotes based on my specs. By the way, do you find that using it for glass and ceramics works out for you? Any drawbacks? Thanks again, Ginny I've had no problems whatsoever using my kiln for both glass & ceramics, roughly 60-40 glas...

Thanks, all, for your suggestions about wetting the plaster. I had also read that applying lacquer to plaster molds works, so I experimented with two identical gnome molds, (which I am quite happy to sacrifice in the name of glass experimentation). I applied one coat of Minwax Fast Dry Polyurethane ...

I got my kiln from Pottery Supply House in Ontario. This company is associated with Euclid Kilns, in the US. I'm very happy with the kiln, which I've had for 1.5 years. It fires to cone 10, has a Bartlett controller, measures 17" w by 13" deep. Many kiln manufacturers semi-custom build the...

http://community.webshots.com/album/113692083dyVdgZ The full view doesn't show the colour accurately; the larger View #2 does. I used plaster/silica investment, cast in a cylinder shape. The model was was cast in wax from a plaster slip cast mold intended for casting clay. It measures about 6" ...