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I don't know anything about Colorline enamels. But If you eventually use Brad's sunshine enamels and have problems please describe: 1. Which medium was used. e.g. Pine oil, Water miscible medium, Klyrfyre etc 2. Application method. I assume you are screen printing. Or are you rubber stamping? What i...

I just watched that video that TOB linked. Pretty cool. How much did it cost him to run that torch for seven minutes to make a foot for a goblet I wonder? There's probably more learning curve and infrastructure to managing the flameworking process than I have an appetite for. But Jen, yes, I'm still...

The painted pieces didn't fog. They should have fogged. Maybe I cleaned them too well. No conclusions yet. Guess I'll try a piece that has only been cleaned with dish soap. If it doesn't fog, I'll find something more productive to worry about. Paint is an overglaze which provides a different surfac...

The painted pieces didn't fog. They should have fogged. Maybe I cleaned them too well. No conclusions yet. Guess I'll try a piece that has only been cleaned with dish soap. If it doesn't fog, I'll find something more productive to worry about.

Not especially Christmassy subject matter, but they went over well anyway

I put some of the old plate glass back in the kiln with the program I used in the past: 600 dph to 1275°F. It didn't fog. It didn't have any paint on it though. I had cleaned one piece of it pretty well with Glass Plus, and noted which little end of it had been under putty in it's life. The other pi...

Interesting observations. Thank you. I'll do some experiments suggested by your thoughts and post results

When I fire float and pre-float old plate glass over 1250F for any length of time, I sometimes get clouding. I thought it was tin bloom at first, not knowing what tin bloom is, but I figured since it was float, that I probably was enjoying tin bloom. Now that I've fired non-float old window glass an...

Approaching off-topicivity here, but it's been slow so I'll go for it: In a glass discussion on Facebook some folks were discussing occasional breakage when firing sandblasted flashed glass. Particularly thick green. Particularly when the flash side is down on the shelf. I understand the contributin...

Jen, maybe all the unused but loved and sheltered shards come together into one immense radiant biscuit tin of compatibility just before the moment of the great final event and creation of the new universe. I'd like to think so.

Mine is mostly antique glass scraps in small crescent shapes that are hard to handle and of limited value in mosaics, which I don't want to make anyway. I've found that the best thing to do with glass like that is to sort it by color and store it in Rubbermaid bins. My children can then wonder the s...

Kathy Jordan and Melissa Janda are teaching a glass painting course within a few hours drive from you next spring. http://www.willethauser.com/glass-painting-intensive Kathy uses the Reusche Water Friendly Medium for a lot of her line work and expressive brushwork. I haven't seen her use it for enam...

It may be a DNS issue, either a wrong DNS entry somewhere or an old cache DNS entry to the old site. If it looks at the old entry, it times out but when you refresh it looks at the second entry and goes through. You might have your hosting site check to make sure they have correct IP information in...

Debitus still sells copper red and will sell direct. But allow 40% for your bank to make a transfer to theirs, to pay their VAT, and to pay our import duty. They have a website

That really looks odd. Did the bubble areas actually displace the tree trunks?

I did some of the torch thing. Its a two person job and time consuming and unpleasant. You can do it though. I gave up and installed new elements from a skutt kit. I'm practicing creep avoidance technique now and am in remission pretty much

The frit dust thread reminded me of a question I wanted to ask. Where do you store your respirator? It kind of wierds me out to put it in a sealed plastic storage bag that the manufacturer provides. It's not the most sanitary thing after I've worn it for a couple hours. And why seal it in a bag alon...

I like my pot melts inspired by a pre-Raphaelite sentiment: You would wear a modest gown in a dark garden. Place the glass shards in the flower pot while clutching a small leather book to your chest. Look upward, pleadingly, to be released from the torment of temptation. Then I guess you bring it in...

The Josephine glass black has a low melting frit in it. It would dissipate the most of the three. I guess that either of the other two will do as well as anything else available. Rather than putting stock in my guess you could of course test them.

The American Glass Guild's bulletin board is http://www.americanglassguild.com . There's no cost to sign up, but if you become a AGG member, you get access to some additional sections in the bulletin board. To join the AGG, go here: http://www.americanglassguild.org/ . The AGG doesn't discourage the...