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<<OK, its oh-dark-thirty and the pot melts I've been looking at are 5-7 inches in diameter. Kinda big for pendants, cut them up and you loose the spetacular design elements. Slumps seem possible. Can't all be used as rondels n suncatchers??>> Actually, I wouldn't be losing the design elements if I c...

Teach? ME teach? Surely you jest!

Someone chime in if I'm wrong, but I think you're also dropping too fast, too. Seems like that would also cause the spikes, and you also wouldn't anneal at that rate. I get through the devit zone and then take my sweet time to get down below 750.

I'm heading up to Fayetteville, AR this weekend for fusing and lampworking classes. Here's the website: http://www.hotglassbeads.com

Where in Houston are you? I'm on Lake Conroe.

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Your signature says it all! Look at them again in the creative hours of Midnight to 5AM and you'll see all kinds of possibilities

I'm planning to make pendants out of them--either cut to shape and firepolished, or freeform and firepolished.

Ah, now I understand. Do you have a suggestion for the paper thickness, or does it matter? Other than the thinfire, that is.

Thanks, Charlie, I'll try it. I was steering away from it because of a thread that said it wouldn't work.

I have a paperweight from there. It is very iridescent, but I'm not sure if all of that is the Mt. St. Helens glass. Part of it is clear red (like a cranberry); the rest is opaque iridescence.

If that little red X is what it looks like, I don't think I'll use the stuff. Can you post another link?

Charlie, I can't post a photo of my setup because I don't really have one. What I want to do is a pot melt that I can later cut apart, OR have shaped in some respect when it melts. I've been talking with Tom in Texas, and he gave me some ideas using stainless steel. Clearly the problem is the dam, a...

Thanks, Lynne, but after talking to my buddy Tom in Texas, it appears that it's not a compatibility issue after all. And I had the same problem today with Spectrum that had nothing sparkling at all. What's apparently happening is that the dams I'm using on the kiln shelf are sticking just a little b...

Bill, we're all dying to know--where do you live? You didn't put it in your profile. Or are you trying to be a 007 type?

For free? You're one of my favorite people!

The book sounds intriguing. Can you give us a time table, and details like price? Judging by the piece you showed us I'm ready to preorder the book!

Becca, yes there was tink, tink, tink (hereafter referred to as ttt) in the pots, but unfortunately it also was on the pretty sparkly stuff on the shelf. I removed everything in pieces. At least now I know that I can do a melt, and I have a good idea of the temps/time. This was my first, so I'm not ...

P.S. I'd like to remelt this stuff at another time, perhaps with some different glass. I guess I have to grind/dissolve/soak off all of the shelf wash before I do that, right?

So, okay, I tried it again. This time I went to 1750, with a 30 minute soak. I also added more pieces of glass to the pots, since they weren't very full and hadn't really melted anyway. The glass all oozed out just the way it was supposed to. There was lots of sparkle since I had a number of scraps ...

Bill, what state is it? Hope it's not where I'm planning to move in a few years for retirement.

Sorry about your loss, but I'm sure you've learned a lot along the way. Once you make your own molds I'll bet you'll pass with flying colors.

Thanks for the tips. I also had a nice conversation with "Tom in Texas" who's a few miles down the road from me. Guess I should have paid more attention to his pieces when I was in his shop last time. #-o At any rate, I'm trying again with a higher temp and longer soak. I'm not really hold...

I'm trying a pot melt with 90 COE glass--mostly BE plain and iridized with a few little dichro fragments, etc. thrown in. I have some 2 1/2" bisque containers with holes--one round and one rectangular--suspended above a shelf. They were filled about 1/2 full with the scraps. So why won't the gl...