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You can also use ChapStik to cover Sharpie marks so that they don't disappear in the water.

I've read the French Vanilla will react with itself (but have yet to do do any testing) - are there others? And, more in the category of idle questions: What is it about the interface between two pieces of the same glass that causes the reaction to occur? Is it a manageable reaction? I.e., can one m...

Were you fusing in the mold? Was the frit between layers?

OTOH, some glasses might be fussy about a second trip through the kiln at fusing temperatures, and you may end up getting results you didn't expect or don't particularly like.

I can't help with any useful advice, but I'd like to see some pictures of the various results - would that be possible?

Thanks, Jen.

Whether I'm using leaf or foil (it was sold as foil) I seem to be able to handle that for my my limited application. Nice to have the gilder's tip trick in my bag of tricks, but since I'm follicly challenged, I'll have to figure out a different way to impart some static electricity.

Not a direct answer to your question, but I can just barely manage the handling of silver foil due to its flimsiness. I can't imagine having to deal with silver leaf. More directly to your question, I often use silver foil on top of red and orange opal and capped with Tekta. It maintains its silver ...

@KaCe: I have no idea where I got them. I only know they've been in a junk drawer for a number of years, and made it through a house move.

Picture(s)?

Thanks, Kevin. The kind of stuff I do doesn't lend itself to installation on a cork. I think you're right - they're going to end up back in the back of the drawer.

I found some unimproved bottle stoppers in the back of a junk drawer - they must be 5 or more years old. I can't figure out how they're intended to be used. Are they for use with fused glass? And if so, how would one best go about affixing glass to the right-angled stem? Here are a couple of images ...

The Digitry GB-1 manual states, " Some people are used to being forced to describe temperature profiles in terms ramps up and down, expressed as degrees per minute, and in terms of timed soaks. The GB1 relieves you of the calculations required to specify profiles in this arcane manner. " T...

@ Barbara: Do you saw after the slump?

Agree with Dana. I always square mine off to get the additional stability. I would only add that a lap grinder makes quick and easy work of squaring off that edge. Doing it by hand might entail an awful lot of labor ...

Does the striped piece consist of single layer strips only? From the edges, it looks almost like it's a single layer, in which case the edges will certainly pull in and create something you probably weren't intending to do.

Oh - you mean one of those lights that's upside down?

Yes, they are.

When I was in graduate school, I was griping about the high cost of books to one of the professors. He said, "If you just learn one thing, or get one good idea, from a book, it's worth its price." And I think I agree. Those videos are a bargain.

Brad Walker can CNC mill a custom mold for you. He has certain constraints on depths, length, and width dimensions. The CNC machine is digitally-controlled, so you will have to supply him with specific dimensions and/or a drawing file in specific format.

He made one for me, and it was spot on.

Can you post a picture?

If you decide to grind a flat spot with a lap, be careful you don't grind too much - it's thin down there and you can grind through the bottom in the blink of an eye. Been there, done that ...