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I'm gearing up for my first art fair and I thought I would sell some refrigator magnets. I can get some flexible vinyl magnet stuff for free. I did a couple of samples and they stuck to the fridge OK but I would like the have the magnet a little stronger. Does the flexible vinyl sheeting come in dif...

If I'm reading it right, you do a pot melt onto a piece of glass that's on a piece of thinfire? I wondered if that would work, I thought maybe the base piece would shrink up before the pot melt started to pour onto it. I haven't put rims around my pieces yet. I have one ready to go, just haven't had...

Just regular orange terra cotta flower pots. Some are thicker than others. I use the thin ones, it's easier to make the hole bigger in the bottom. http://users.wi.net/~magnum/PotMelts/Pots.JPG And here's how it looks set up in the kiln. http://users.wi.net/~magnum/PotMelts/setup.JPG 5/8" thick ...

You don't have to go tall to get a cool looking pot melt. Use shallower pots with shorter drop heights and experiment with the hole size and shape.Here are some examples. Picture #1 is 50 ounces of glass in a 6" pot with a 1" hole suspended 5" above shelf. Approx. 12" when done/ ...

Try your local monument works. No one in town carried aluminum oxide. I checked on the internet an found decent prices but the shipping wasn't cheap. One day while running an errand I passed a monument works and it suddenly occured to me that they sand blast the names into the headstones. I stopped ...

I did another wire drop, this time using Spectrum red and black. I thought the back looked better than the front so I ground it round then sandblasted the back using 120 grit aluminum oxide to remove the baked on kiln wash. I oversprayed with home made borax solution and fired to 1480° and held the...

What's great about this piece is that it can be whatever the customer thinks it is. With the recent talk about technique ownership, I don't know how much I should divulge about the process. But I figure I can share this much, it's a "wire drop". I first heard of it on this board and did so...

The front edge of my kiln is a bit torn up from me jammin stuff in there to prop the lid open when I'm drying my kiln shelves. I'm pretty sure that's where the white crumbs are coming from that end up on my pieces. I bought a 1 pound jar of kiln repair cement to smooth over the rough spots. It menti...

Here's the result of something I've been messin around with the past couple of weeks. I thought about making it into a plate or a bowl but decided it displays just fine as a flat disc. Let me know what you think. Randy http://users.wi.net/~magnum/New/Disc1.JPG http://users.wi.net/~magnum/New/DiscClo...

I have found that you can only use the pot once. They are cheap and disposable, I usually find a 6" pot for less than a dollar. I use a 6" pot with about 50 ounces of glass to get a 12" disk. I weighed the pot before and after firing and found that 4 ounces of glass remains inside the...

I made a pattern bar or transparent glass, sliced it up, and arranged the pieces. Do I fire them ON a piece clear or CAP them with clear?

Thanks, Randy

Jerry, that is way cool ! I've wanted to try multiple pots but just don't have the time right now. It's beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Randy

Steve, your bowl is beautiful !!!! Just beautiful!

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

Fixing the bubbles is easy. The smaller ones I fill with clear powder and the larger ones I fill with a small chip of clear glass and some clear powder. Of course you might be daring and try colored powders. Leave the powder mounded up a little, it tends to shrink a little. I didn't lose any detail ...

Steve, that looks great. I've noticed the back of some of my pot melts were just as interesting as the front. Please post a picture of the completed piece.

Thanks,
Randy

http://users.wi.net/~magnum/PotMelt/Yellow.JPG This in another yellow one I made, not the one pictured in the beginning of this thread. It's 11.5" in diameter. After the initial firing, I popped the air bubbles and filled them with a small chip of clear glass and some clear powder and fired ag...

Randy, Inspired by your post, I tried this yesterday. Three pound of glass in a 5" pot. After 1 hour at 1625; 45 min and 1650; and finally 30 min at 1675, only about half of my glass had made it through the aperture. The hole in the bottom of the pot was 5/16". This created three problems...

Randy, your pot melts are terrific! They look as if you have slumped them already. Does the melted glass hit your kiln posts? One more question: It looks in the set-up as if you have fused together some of the strips of yellow and black? Is that correct or do I need glasses? One more question ( and...

Wowie zowie I was just getting ready to run out and try it then read the post saying "i wish I had a deeper kiln" and duh, I have an Oval 9, not much height. Can I put fiber board or fiberfrax on floor of kiln or use shallow pot perhaps? Looking for advice from the potmeister Jeri You can...

Thank you. I take it the link is working now?

Randy