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The end of last week I asked your advice on why my plate cracked after it was fused in the slumping firs. I took all of the advice and composed it into a better firing schedule. Fused a piece of clear to the back of the plate to hold the two pieces together. Fused it again. Success as in the fusing ...

Thanks for all the advice. In the future I am going to do what I think is right and not listen to Spectrum's firing schedule. I certainly will slow way down on the way up for the slump. I will come down a little slower and not pop the top until a little cooler. I might even add that second layer of ...

My plate cracked during the slumping phase. I know this has been asked a number of times before but I thought I flowed a good firing schedule. I am giving you the glass used and the firing schedules. Glass was Spectrum 96 Opal 12 5/8 inch diameter base circle crescent measuring 2.75 wide at center a...

Hi, The bottle mess is over. :D Talk about relief. Here is how things set up. I had the shelf right under the pyrometer by about a 1/2 inch so if the bottle didn't break away from the side I was in trouble. The bottle managed to get itself attached to 3 sides of my 8 sided shelf. I know quite a feat...

Here we go again. Earlier today I asked how to get the glass off my kiln shelf where the bottle ran over the side. I have a worse delima. The damn bottle not only migrated to the edge of the shelf but while folding over the shelf attached itself to the wall of my kiln. :evil: The kiln side is fire b...

Well here I am again with a real mess. I tried slumping two bottles on the same shelf. I measured to make sure there was room for them to flatten before I closed the kiln very carefully. I opened it to flash vent when I found the mess. One of the bottles had flattened and run over the edge of the sh...

Claudia, I take credit cards at shows. I have my account through our state arts and crafts guild with Discover Business. We get special rates since there are so many of us. No monthly charges , no monthly minimums. etc. The percentages vary for Discover, Visa, etc. Like Bert I have a manual card swi...

Also check Warner-Crivellaro for the noodles and stringers. THey also have the mold. They are a sponsor of the list. Nice people to work with. As far as I know they only carry 96 COE.

There is a glass store in Winder which is NE of Atlanta. I can't for the life of me think of the name of the shop right now but he has a ton of warm glass supplies and kilns for sale. I think he also has classes. His name is Ray.

Thanks everyone this is the information I am looking for. I will let you know my results. It will be awhile until I get the bars gathered up. I don't think I will go as big as I had originally thought of going.

I have available to me different diameters and lengths of steel bars not SS. These bars would run from 2-6 inches in diameter and from about 1-6 inches in length. My question is can these be used succesfully to slump over? I am thining of laying a bar on its side and slumping over it to get a curve ...

Question here. When I slump can I tack fuse 1/8 in glass to the base of what I am slumping or draping? I was under the impression that the tack fuse had to be a separate step. It would be wonderful if I could eliminate one firing.