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As someone else mentioned, insulation. It only takes a day to insulate and it will improve your work environment for years! And it is something that if you don't do at the start it's pretty much never going to happen because when again are you going to have access to all the walls? Bathroom. Last th...

If your blade is flexing and binding you are pushing too hard for the machine. The bit about two hands is totally right. Listen to the motor, through your earplugs! One tip: that second slab, start your cut in the 1/2" section and cut towards the thickness; the slice will be less likely to drop...

Recently I was at a seminar where members of various local arts organizations were brainstorming and generally trying to figure out what it would take to improve the local arts scene. One person really lamented Americas undervalue of art and culture. He was very sad that the great civilizations of h...

I would follow their directions. Mixing is always easier warm. Like when your cooking...

Maybe you should embrace your result and do an installation of 100 of those. If you were trying to make that bubble you wouldn't be able to do it :wink: I think that burnt money has much more meaning and metaphore than just a buck sandwiched in glass. Plus, even if you succede in altering the glass ...

Brown Microcrystaline wax. Axailable from foundrys, art suppliers ect. Red for sprueing or just make your own w/ brown. For most glass kilncasting, steaming is better than burning out: Wax is easily reusable and less stress on the mold.

If a magnet will stick= steel
no stick= aluminum or SS

If light, al
heavy, ss

Can't tell?
Grinder look at sparks compare the results to a known piece of al, ss.

Enamel can mess up set 1.

Steve,
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For burn out I just go outside and use a roofing torch/big bushy torch and torch. the wax melts and is absorded into the shell so the shell looks wet brown then sooty black then you need to get it to have some heat color in it as charlie was saying (red) this burns of the soot and hence it is white ...

I don't know about the fabric, but the melting point of aluminum is 660.25°C 1220.45°F .

As to reusing after a firing, I would expect it to change states and have crystalobites (sp?) but you might contact the manufacturer. As to your usage, I packed it around a few objects and let it dry and looked at what it came out as. what do you mean by packed around? I have only used it by brushin...

Having picnics on the beach has proven that, yes, you can eat silica.

What about paradise paints? They are always saying it'll fit anything?!

A house with a healthy spider population has no radon problems.

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Check for mold too.

What size are the tiles? What kind of glass? so you are holding at 960 for 40 minutes and then dropping to 800 in less than an hour. I know a lot of casters skimp on the soak (the 960 hold) but that 1hour drop to 800 seems kinda short. without knowing what kinda glass, I would go 4hours from 960 to ...

Wow, that's a pretty good price considering frieght. Especially if you were west coast. Thanks for the answer. Do you think the subject heading is too risque for this board? Or are there just not many glass mercenaries over here?

Dennis, That sounds pretty interesting. With the hulls, I wonder how it would work if you tried a slumping a thick sheet in the same situation instead of full fusing cullet. Experimenting w/ the thickness of the sheet could allow you to overcome whatever thinning that occured in the stretching. Than...

Wow Dennis, are you saying that you kiln cast those starfish in a brass mold? I would expect a product like that to be made by pulling a little ladle of glass out of a furnace and filling a graphite or metal mold. Then empty the mold when stiff and box it. But you are saying that you load the brass ...

Well now that you are looking: I have an artist who would like me to kilncast some 14" greenbeans for her. I want to drop off the ready waxes with an excellent local caster (the woman in the subject message) and then get the rough pieces of glass from her and do the finish work myself. Do you h...

Sure, lauri. Glad I could help

But seriously, do you cast in them or just slump?