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:?: how thick is this mold? a fusing soak at 960 is different than a slumping hold; the slump hold must be longer if the mold is thick, because the mold is holding a lot more heat in it. it could take significantly longer to lose that heat, than your shelf does during a fuse. also, if it's sitting ...

Nanc, check out this info in the tutorial. A picture of the crack would immensely help us help you.

http://www.warmglass.com/Troubleshooting.htm#cracked

Also, check out this page on schedules from Spectrum. You should have followed a schedule similar to the one for a 3/8 inch piece.

Hi Nanc. Regarding mold holes... I learned something interesting a while back from Bob Leatherbarrow. Mold holes in the center are NOT well placed. Imagine your piece slumping down. The glass doesn't come rolling down the sides and fill the middle last. It plops down in the middle first (covering an...

I might know just little enough to be helpful on this. I don't know the exact compounds formed. All the wild and crazy metal reactions on glass seem to depend on depriving the glass/metal combination of oxygen, also known as as maintaining a "reducing" atmosphere around the hot glass. Rak...

crystal clear silicone by GE is pretty great. i'm not a fan of E-6000. i have long and unhappy experience with it failing later on down the line. places like walmart and hardware stores have the GE silicone in smaller tubes, or in the type you put into a pressure gun. i've used the GE stuff on proj...

I often fire down and flip. You are right, it should make a bubble difference for you, especially if you fire long enough for the bubbles to escape. But I have never done it with dichro. Do the dicro users out there have any ideas?

do you fire on thinfire? I know someone who has reported that when she full fuses clear glass on thinfire, she often gets a cloudiness when she slumps.

Barbara

Geri, great news. Glad you laid down the law!

Barbara

i understand colin, what you are calling raw firing is slumping glass on green dry clay. but that is also as far as the clay is concerned, a low bisque fire. rosanna Yes Rosanna you're correct .....raw is the same as dry green ware ..or when clay is fired with glaze or some other element in a green...

Jon, you should be able to sandblast off whatever is stuck to the bottom of the glass once (and if you get it off the kiln shelf. Unless it breaks, you can use it the way you planned to. If it breaks then you will see th amazing innards of a pot drop. THen you can slice it up and use the slices as c...

I usually test strips of colors against each other to see what the reaction, if any, will be.

Brian and Jenny Blanthorn wrote:
Kiln was is not all the same

There is a lot of difference even using a similar formula

The prefered purchaced one is

Lovely Lanie's BE

Which was after years of research colour matched 2 her bathrobe

and here I thought it was color matched to Pepto Bismol!

Barbara

yes, and palladium as well, although neither will give you the same effect that silver can. If you use silver leaf under irridized glass or unde Bullseye's "crystal clear" (I forget the stock number) you should get the silver without any staining.

Barbara

Deborah, are you trying to get a relief from the numbers in the plate? If so, just cut out the numbers in fiber paper, lay them in your slumping mold and give it a loooong slow soak....

Barbara

Mark, I have found it to be difficult to control the depth of color i get using silver leaf to stain glass. Sometimes it even stains to other colors. I have one small piece of glass where the silver stained yellow, blue, peach and pink! Have you thought about enamels? Aren't there transparent enamel...

Barbara. Uh. Oh. The dreaded I-word. I've found that people use the term "interesting" when they don't like it but feel they have to say something nice anyway. Well, don't worry. I can handle criticism. Not everyone is going to like something. Actually interesting isn't a dirty word with ...

PDXBarbara (Bader) wrote: OH DARN! I missed out on all the piss!
BB

Barb it's usually pretty stinky....

Someone at C&R Loo told me a customer of theirs got Bullseye to take the old stuff back. He called BE directly. I'm just using mine up on smaller projects. If I had a lot I'd probably want to exchange it. Marc <<Now what are we supposed to do with all the old thinfire. Still have 1/2 a box and ...

It seems to me we have two distinct camps, one which feels that the old board was better and one that likes the new board. It seems that many of the old, longer term visitors like the old board best, while many of the newer posters like the new format. According to the poll, the new format seems to...

to reach the images go to: http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid62/pb1a33c382889e8db239b3354e9d09724/fc1d64ea.jpg.orig.jpg and http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid63/pd5dd7fff0662ce8912d2a85cbdd8dfdd/fc1b0831.jpg.orig.jpg I found that once I have been to one of the images, both popped up in...