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Hi I am somewhat challenged by accurately measuring so my pieces of glass fit together better before fusing. I imagine there are some "tricks of the trade" that I have yet to learn. My tools include a morton board, rulers with cork on one side, and a L square. It seems I am often just a li...

I use bullseye glass. Not sure what color the lighter blue is because it was unlabeled scrap glass. The dark blue is deep royal blue, the green is adventurine green and the frit is fine marigold yellow. It was made with a base of two layers of 90 clear. Thanks for the comments. This was the first ti...

Oops... I see the bowl is upside down....my apologies.

I'm a newbie and this is my first photo posted. It's a 7" glass mosaic bowl. I learned to make glass mosaic fused bowls at Oakta Glass Studio in Batavia, NY. .....a great place to learn fusing skills. The bottomless mold used is one of Laurie Spray's molds, which as it has no bottom, sits flat....

Hi Celene I am too much of a newbie myself to offer suggestions about why your bowl did not slump but I want to let you know about these great bottomless molds for slumping. One of my problems with making deeper bowls was how to put a foot on it so it sits well without cold working machines like I u...

Hi. Here's an update on my olympic champ XL kiln. Olympic was very helpful and suggested I make two simple projects to slump test for each program. As there are four programs, that's a lot of time to spend testing the kiln for someone like me who works full time. So I tested program one, entering th...

Thank you for your replies. I spoke to a rep at Olympic and will do some test firings to figure out if it is the controller.
Susan

Hi I live in Woodstock, NY and moved to a new home. My kiln is in an unheated garage. The kiln was working well originally but now is intermittently not completing the firing schedule. Sometimes it fires properly. But sometimes it fires fine for most of the firing schedule but gets "stuck"...