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Why would devitrification develop there? Is there more stress in those areas already? I wonder if I should not use this batch of gold purple I have, the side with the pattern will have to be the top of the piece to have smooth sides together. Hmmm, but it appeared on other colors as well. Just more ...

I have been racking my brain as to what contaminated my shelf or glass to get this crazy devit pattern, and then this evening in the studio I picked up a fresh piece of BE gold purple and lo and behold....THE PATTERN! http://www.glasskitchen.com/auction/lissa/purple.jpg http://www.glasskitchen.com/a...

Thanks Charlie, I missed your post. I'll call the sandblaster today. What would be a good firing schedule for the fire polish, I obviously botched it the first time!

lissa.

Nope, not stepped on, and it shows up just in certain areas on pieces, but must be some sort of shelf contamination. Maybe I can post a picture. So would you recommend having it sandblasted?

thanks, lissa.

I have a 13" disc 1/4" thick that developed devitrification in a an attempt to fire polish. I brought the piece to full fuse, no problem, and then flipped it and set a fire polish cycle as I wanted the 'top' to become the 'bottom'. Devitrification developed on BE transparent orange and bla...

ceramic wash is all I used for long time, just recently got the glass stuff. I did have a bit more 'sticking' but it always came right off and I never had hazing. If it is what's available, go for it, I don't see why it won't be fine. Like I said, I never had problems.

lissa.

What is it? I have never been careful on that matter and haven't noticed anything but would like to avoid potential problems.

lissa.

Is there a problem if some gets on the underside?

lissa.

Transferred the printer ink to the glass how? Do you know?

lissa.

Do you prefer borax to super spray or the like? I understand how they work differently, I am just wondering why folks chose one over the other as the desired results are the same.

lissa.

Great, thanks so much for your informative reply, sounds like I am good to go. And it's nice to know that I don't need to be piling it on. Thanks again.

lissa.

I am using BE wash for the first time and have a few questions. 1) I used the ratio of powder to water they suggest (4 to 1) and read the instructions to put on four coats for a previously fired item....four coats of that ratio wash BARELY gave the shelf a pink tint. I added lots more powder and put...

Wow, I did a slump fire this afternoon and my kiln dropped from 1300 to 1050 in under half hour an hour. Hope I didn't overslump, but even if so I can just work that into a new equation. I'll have to see how a fuse fire goes tomorrow. The clothes on the drying rack are going to take longer to dry no...

Excellent! I use super spray usually, should I just program my kiln to drop AFAP to 1050 or so and let it do its thing? What a great thing to have learned today, thanks a bunch. I think our laundry room walls and ceiling will be quite pleased as well.

lissa

I am very interested to hear more on the topic of NOT flash venting, I understood it to be pretty important to avoid devit. My kiln is my laundry room and I would love to skip the flash venting. It's not too fun either! I guess too, a matter of time, my kiln loses heat pretty slowly and I imagine no...

Here's a link that should help you out

http://www.cauldroncreations.com/pasteleffetre.html

Recent batches of color have been exceptionally bright and clean.

lissa.

Bert posted this not long ago

http://www.warmglass.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2061

lissa

When I had a retail shop, my merchant account charged me MORE when someone used a debit card than if they charged on credit. That reserve that places do actually worked to my advantage. While in Orlando a few weeks ago I had my wallet stolen, a huge headache and a very worrisome event. But...we had ...

Yeah, I've been back to look at this piece four times now, really cool! You have patience and a steady hand, not to mention an excellent sense of design. Super neat!

lissa.

This was happening to me a lot, more with certain colors, on both ground and unground edges, obviously a lot worse with the ground edges. I have found super spray to be helpful (and not grinding!). I don't know if you use anything like that but now I rarely get that haze line. I wondered if it had t...