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I typically frame my wall hangings to hide the backing boards. That being said I use the thinnest gauge aluminum I can get, it's a bit thicker than a soda can and can be cut with a tin snips. It's backed by an 1/8th inch sheet of ply wood or MDF. I use 1/2" bar or 3/4" aluminum square tubi...

Check to make sure your kiln shelf is flat, a lot of the inexpensive ones are not.

Burt that was my point they should be compatible after melting but they're not. Their first batch of nuggets were compatible with their sheet glass but where very corrosive to electric furnace elements and refractory. They reformulated them as premium nuggets to correct this issue, but ended up maki...

It will be such a utopia when the glass world can move beyond the Coe illusion. This is the same Spectrum glass that makes/made three different glass blowing nuggets that are not compatible with each other, yet all are technically 96 Coe. Here it is from there own website. Spectrum Premium 2.0 Nugge...

Without knowing the details of your pieces other than size and your currant firing schedule. I would think that the thermal mass of your kiln is slowing you down more than your annealing hold time. With only two layers of glass I would shut the kiln off when the pieces were done and let the kiln coo...

I would slow down, you're not giving it enough time to squeeze out the air from between the texture and at that high heat the air is expanding and the liquid glass is giving no resistance causing the eruptions.
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Why not cut a piece of Mylar, that fits in the center indentation of the mold, and poke a hole the size of a sharpie point. It will last forever if removed before firing, you can use it on multiple molds and the marks will be visible after kiln wash application. If you're using opaque glass and need...

Sure you can, the color won't be as dense as an oxide type enamel. I also believe that some of the commercially available enamels are finely ground glass power. The grit size for Bulleye or Uroborus are bigger so the screen mesh needs to be larger resulting in less detail. Depending on what you're d...

I've got a bunch of the Dalle de Verre glass in storage. I'm not sure if I have 20 clear, but I also have transparent blue, green and red. I can run up there mid-week and post some photos and let you know what I've got if your interested.

Marty should get the gold star, I'm just passing on some technical knowledge. Yes Buttercup the clamps are on the inside, and hose clamp might be a more descriptive name. It should only take a screwdriver to loosen them.

The gloves in the sandblasting cabinet should be held in with large ring clamps. You can simple unscrew them and remove the big rubber gloves and clamp the jacket sleeves and dishwasher gloves in there place. No need to cut holes, and if the dishwasher gloves don't work for you, you can put them bac...

I don't crash my kiln anymore, but when I did I would balance the temperature off at around 1000F like Valerie said, than program my cooling cycle. I don't think that crashing a small kiln at the upper temperatures is going to save you that much time though. It's the lower range temperatures that ta...

Your halftones are going to depend on the equipment you are using to expose your screens more than anything. The faster your exposure the finer your halftones can be, less time for light to bleed through your image. The type of printer used to print your positives is also going to be a factor for go...

Did you cap it? It looks as though you brought it up to process temperature without capping. I can't tell from the photo if it was, but that would cause it to spread and fade like that.

The addition of petroleum jelly to melted brown wax will soften it. It's also cheaper than beeswax.

You could also try a color bar cutter for blown glass. I have not used this model, and most take a bit of practice to get a good brake. They will handle a good thickness of glass though.

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Thank you all for the wonderful comments. Venon there is no yellow behind the fish it's clear, turquoise blue, and white streaky to give that underwater affect with the strip cut boarder of yellow and blues. Twin vision glass your work is very inspiring as well, and I'm working on an images with col...

This is a new screen printed casting the glass measures 20x1x11.
Hope you enjoy.

It was a good movie definitely worth watching, but that whole I make a boat load of money but all I want is to be taken seriously as an artist got a bit thin for me. If you want to be shown in galleries, why not make art that's shown in galleries? If you're making illegal pipes and hiding behind con...

I always think it's much easier to buy thicker glass to eliminate trapped air between layers.