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I think you need to browse the board here for discussions of single vs. two-layer construction. I would think the odds of using a single layer for side-by-side flag stripes would yield very unsatisfactory results, as it pertains to the stripe ends forming an edge that's even enough for you. (Regardl...

The procedure shown on the Morton Glass site looks really easy - wish I'd thought of that myself. Not too much waste, either. Very good tip about blunting the points, too.

I spent some time today trying to figure out a way to cut the points as a single pieces (essentially a quadrilateral) consisting of two isosceles triangles with a common base). Unsuccessful - lots of waste material. Plus, I have an absolutely useless protractor as it pertains to cutting glass. If yo...

If you or your husband are handy with a drawing program, maybe you could draw a star the way you want and then find someone with a water jet who could cut out a bunch of them for you?

Are you sitting down? Now check the prices on that kit ...

I watched the video - looked to me like cutting true 72 points might be kind of difficult with that protractor. Also, the outer points have been cut somewhat less than 72 deg., have they not? Making the stars you drew looks to me like one of those efforts that looks a lot easier than it really turns...

How did the glass manage to jump the gap between the shelf and the elements?

@Susan: Floor is Armstrong vinvl. I didn't want something with seams in it that would catch glass shards.
@Jeanne: Pics?

Couple of more pictures:
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I made a work table that's working well for me. Dimensions of the top are 38' x 86'. The work surface is 38" off the floor, which is about 6" below my elbow height. I had previously been told that the optimum height would be 3" below elbow height, but that didn't let me lean over the ...

Ok - now I see that line. The moth draws one's attention so completely that I think that line may be a non-issue?

I guess you're talking about the outline around the moth? Put me down as being in the like-it-as-it-is group.

Eryc: What glass(es) did you use for the stripe between the two black strips?

I have a very elegant filing system, called the "five-gallon bucket method."

And make your tiles big enough to write on, or at least big enough to write a number on so that you can cross-ref the tiles to your records of glass, schedule, layup, etc. Also, if your tile is really testing more than one thing, make sure you identify each section of the tile somehow (I use pieces ...

You'll get lots of other help/advice here - let me add mine. One word: Experiment. If you want to know how a certain glass, layup, surface (irid, dichro or not) will behave, do a small experimental fuse. It may not replicate what you'll see in your final production fuse exactly, but it will probably...

Do the small molds have airholes in them? Do the large ones have airholes? It doesn't look like your molds were set up on kiln furniture - were they?

I'm interested in the area highlighted in this screenshot: Did it fall over/slump over the edge of the mold? Or has the piece slumped ok, but it has just been moved/offset in the mold at some point after the actual slump was completed?

Did it actually move to that position during the slump? Or perhaps after? I guess I'd want to know: Did the overhanging edge that's now off the mold slump so that it's hanging down? It's hard for me to tell, but it doesn't look like it did.

And the freezing wind was blowing so hard we had to walk backwards both coming and going.