What I think is even more interesting than the surface of a pot melt is the cross section. Try cutting strips and from the potmelt.
Barbara
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- Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:19 pm
- Forum: Photos and Stuff
- Topic: Todays Pot Melt
- Replies: 37
- Views: 48793
- Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:20 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: silver fuming...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10080
- Tue Mar 25, 2003 7:15 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: silver fuming...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10080
silver fuming...
Okay, so I fired a bunch of tests in my kiln of silver leaf and its affect on different glass colors. I must have "fumed" my kiln shelf. Lazy girl didn't scrape and re-wash her shelf because a: the wash was intact b: she was only firing test tiles c: she is lazy d: all of the above And the...
- Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:00 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: slumping large pc
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13656
- Mon Mar 24, 2003 4:51 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: More Rocks
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29675
Re: Rocks
is the glass fused to the rocks or are they loose?Jerry wrote: No, it hasn't happened. My guess is that the minerals in the rocks don't actually mix with the glass. Maybe if I increased the temp a few hundred degrees I'd have that problem, but I probably won't do that.
Jerry
- Mon Mar 24, 2003 1:37 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: More Rocks
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29675
Re: Rocks
COE may be a problem if several different types of rocks are encased. They are minerals and have their own expansion rates. How they would do jammed in together is anybody's guess. However, when I dry mine I put them all into a bucket in the kiln. If there was going to be a coe problem you'd think ...
- Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:11 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Unfriendly White glass
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6294
Ron, I have often wondered if it is more difficlt to cut glass that has been fused because of trapped bubbles interrupting the running of the score. That would explain why maybe it was better cutting from the bottom if you had fused on a sheet of glass and trapped bubbles that rose near to the surfa...
- Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:43 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: When does devit happen? & a flux question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16756
- Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:36 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Bob Leatherbarrow's Class
- Replies: 20
- Views: 27543
morphs and all that. Threads morph. there is a natural progression, digression, degression in any conversation and I would not expect threads to be any different. Along the same lines, there are times when inserting a photo in a non photo thread might help to illustrate a point in a discussion. So s...
- Wed Mar 19, 2003 1:10 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Does someone know Bina from Jones Glasswork?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 38605
Years ago I spent a month in Dordogne with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. I wanted to see Lascaux, which was closed while they were constructing the facsimile of Lascaux. My grandfather tried to get us in, the minister of whatever department is in charge of the caves was his friend. He was...
- Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:28 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Good teaching / bad teaching
- Replies: 37
- Views: 49193
A student's learning experience is also greatly influenced by the host, the center where the teacher is teaching. I am fortunate to live close to Vitrum Studios where we have some wonderful people coming to teach in a spacious studio with friendly, generous hosts. I have also experienced the opposit...
- Fri Mar 14, 2003 6:32 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Need Help with my mosaic bowl, it keeps cracking
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14311
- Fri Mar 14, 2003 10:36 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Eureka
- Replies: 41
- Views: 60925
Ron, My theory is it is the texture of the blasted surface. I was going to see if one of my friends has one of those Intel digital microscopes that connects to the USB port of the computer and compare the surfaces- but now the silicon carbide is out of the blaster, and it's a real project to put it...
- Fri Mar 14, 2003 9:57 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Need Help with my mosaic bowl, it keeps cracking
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14311
- Fri Mar 14, 2003 8:56 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Need Help with my mosaic bowl, it keeps cracking
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14311
Dave your split fusing at the edges suggests a thermal shock on the way up. If you have varying thicknesses in the piece, that could account for your thermal shock. You are going up pretty slowly. Maybe a couple of soaks along the way? Oh wait! I just looked at your schedule again. Was this a slump ...
- Wed Mar 12, 2003 2:39 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Wall pocket seperator Q
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14338
- Wed Mar 12, 2003 11:11 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Hydrostone revisited
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12236
- Tue Mar 11, 2003 10:58 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Question about fusing on/in bisque
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12251
- Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:56 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: A general question about classes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 28173
Getting a bit off topic here!! I am telling this next story, not because I think you would do these things, but because your question made me think of this particular class experience, and after the fact, it's rather funny. It wasn't then. I had a class experience a year ago where there was one stu...
- Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:38 pm
- Forum: Photos and Stuff
- Topic: Another box design, with a twist.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 31291