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AndyT wrote:What size is the project? Average weight of glass is around 1.8lbs/sq.ft.

The exact weight breaks down this way:
The background is about 12x18, two layers, so 5.4 lbs
The mask is 2.5 pounds
The strands are less than half a pound

I was rounding up to 10 pounds.

What gauge wire? What material wire? I would be more concerned about long term compatibility than holding up the two layers. High fire 18-gauge stainless steel wire (from Fused Glass Warehouse) I was not aware there’s a compatibility problem with wire inclusions... Or do you mean the glass? What do...

I am planning to tack fuse a cast face and some strips of glass onto a background of two sheet layers. My original plan was to fuse wire inclusions between the two background layers at the top edge, to allow hanging. I want to keep the piece transparent so don’t want to use Hang Your Glass. But now ...

Welcome back, Bert! I have learned a lot from your (old) posts so I am glad you are amongst the glass clan online again!

Glass Fever wrote:I know this is an old post, but I think those rainbows you're seeing are just the pixels of your screen being magnified/distorted by the edges of the tempered glass pieces.

Oh, interesting point. Thanks Glass Fever!

The stripcut book is great. There are very few books dedicated to coldworking. Coldingworking without machines is the best practical "how to" book on the subject I've read. The stands book is OK, if you need ideas. But as you say, it is limited in info. It would be on the bottom of my lis...

These belts are 41-1/2 x 3. One belt breaking would not be an issue, but every time I replace the belt from my old stash (and these are maybe 4-6 years old), they work for a few minutes then split right at the seam. Yep. Same exact problem. Had to buy new belts. But I cut up the old belts into smal...

You may want to look at Paul Tarlow's ebook on fused glass vessels (fusedglassbooks.com) - Creative Fused Glass Drop-out Vessels. He provides a lot of good information, including firing schedules and how you can reduce the risk of having pieces drop completely through. Dana, what other books at tha...

Yes. I assume by "rainbows" you mean bright white areas of stress, usually around the corners of the pieces that are incompatible. Well, no, they are rainbow-colored. I think you can see them in the photo that I attached if you blow it up. They are just thin bands of rainbow around the ed...

Thanks for that Brad and Jim. Appreciate the details on cracks. In case my post wasn't clear.... there are no cracks at all in this piece. Only lines that show where the tempered glass chunks cracked when I deliberately shattered it. I kept those chunks intact in the design and I am glad that the li...

Thank you Brad. I'll not waste further time on tempered fused to other glass. The piece isn't actually cracked right now, so I would like to hang onto it just to see what happens. Unless... is this incompatibility the type that could lead to the piece actually exploding later on? Or would it just cr...

I've fused tempered glass shards and chunks onto a small (6X8) piece of picture frame glass. It fused well, but when I look at it through my DIY polariscope (glass on top of LED screen, viewing through a polarizing camera filter), I see a very thin band of rainbow right along the edges of each tempe...

I am working in a studio where we have a Bartlett V6CF and a Digitry 4. Now that I understand the Auto Program Hold on the Digitry they seem equally easy to use

I’m curious, how do you program AFAP on these controllers? My understanding is that you don't. You program how long it takes to get from one temperature to another. So there's no as fast as possible. So you have to run tests to figure out how long it takes to drop from process temp to anneal temp, ...

I’m curious, how do you program AFAP on these controllers?

A belated report back - the sand worked. The mold held together very well and the cast turned out fine.

Fantastic! And very inspiring. Thanks for posting!

Ed Cantarella wrote:Kiln wash the terra cotta.
Small particles - course frit sized, maybe 3 or evenly spaced.

Thank you Ed!

You’re right of course, Kevin. I should have said, this is sand that was brought in to augment a beach (so, artificially clean). I sifted it, and also I have used it in the kiln under plaster molds, and it fires fine. I did use it today as grog in second layer of a mold, which is now drying in the t...

Could I use just cleaned/sifted beach sand in the second layer? If not - wondering where to get grogg... Any place that carries pottery supplies should have grog, silica flour, and pottery plaster. Dana W. If only I did not live in a rural area ... I've gotten so lazy with being able to shop for ev...