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Does anyone know where to find these pins? Is there an internet source where I can order them from? Thanks! Any pottery place will have element pins. Or you can order them from any kiln or element manufacturer. you can also get a 10' spool of wire and make your own: http://delphiglass.com/index.cfm...

i've had this happen on uro 90 irid also. not on the irid side, but the reverse. i had blasted a pattern into the irid side, and cleaned that side with isopropal alcohol, but not the non-irid side. cynthia asked a while ago about it on uro 90 clear, and the conclusion was something on the rollers as...

granite tile. lots of choices at home depot or a tile store. granite slab from a kitchen countertop sink cutout (scrap at the manufacturers). steel or aluminium plate. roughed up with a wire brush on a drill. sprayed with airbrush black, or powder coated. glass (dalle de vare) tile. either cast or f...

ask him if he gets royalties from the person who painted his pictures on the wall. :) on the custom houses, having just built one, i can tell you that yes, I did the design work, and yes, I own the design. i commissioned someone to draw up plans from my design, but he doesn't own the design. if i wa...

Kay, I believe the reason for the cloudiness is the float glass. Float glass is made by "floating" the glass on a pool of molten steel. This leaves a film on one side of the glass. If you slump with that side up you will get the effect you are talking about. There is a way to check for th...

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I still haven't rigidized my fiberboard (for use as a continuous shelf in my bathtub kiln when I need that continuous surface). Same type of thing, saturate 1 side, let dry, saturate other? Or what? yes. don't forget the sides too. i did two coats on the top and bottom just to make sure. the second...

each piece has a different pattern. basically it's vines with hummingbirds, and they'll be mounted such that the pattern from one flows into the next panel.

it's an easier way to make a 2'x5' panel without having a big kiln, and having to start with 2x5' sheets of irid glass.

Of course Phil's suggestions are right on target. If the shelf is the culpret (as I suspect it is) you could just get a new shelf. The Bullseye connection sells shelves that they say are perfectly flat. Steve i'm coming to the conclusion that flatness or wet wash isn't the whole story. i'm using a ...

Sorry to be so "dim", but the lamps and other equipment in the photo look like they are very close to the tent. Is the tent supposed to function like the background roll paper you mention, or are the photographer and the artwork inside the tent? It doesn't look very big... Thanks! Erik th...

I mean using a bigger span as you put it. Make the plate bigger, hole the same size and see if a bigger piece of glass will drop farther. When I went up in temp (25°) I did not get a significant increase in drop, just more edge distortion. But I am doing a very small diameter drop so significant m...

Thanks, Charlie & Bert. I guess I didn't explain very well what I'm trying to do :? I too, successfully use slip cast ceramic molds for all sorts of glass slumping (unless I take it all out of the kiln too soon - LOL). What I'm trying to make with these clay molds is a repeatable cast cup shape...

what do you mean by 'bigger'? it's the span/weight ratio that causes a drop. the larger the span, the less weight you need (thinner) for a drop at a certain temp. if you increase the temp, you can decrease the weight or the span, or both (but not as much for each individually). if you decrease the t...

catdoran wrote:How do you attach the marbles. Just with a clear epoxy? thanks again for the great presentation. Cathy

grind a small facet on a marble, and use clear 100% silicone caulk (not the latex paintable kind).

bottle glass is designed to be machine blown into a mold, unmolded, and cooled within a few seconds. if you've ever seen a bottle production plant, you'd see this in action; they turn out thousands of bottles an hour. the glass just doesn't flow well, because it isn't supposed to. you don't want the...

Maybe this is what you all were trying to tell me. That in shapes as small as I was going for the mass of glass just isn't enough to drop. But I was really hoping for a very dramatic drop. Rats. if you want a dramatic drop, you need to really increase the temp a lot. however, that makes the walls b...

well, i use bisqued drop rings, bowl shapes, etc for glass. they hold up well after kiln washing them, so i suppose they can be used for molding too.

why new stuff? when they look at something, how would a gallery know when it was made, if it didn't have a date on it? i think they want new stuff because old stuff may have been sitting around unsold in a gallery. if it's been in your stock, and you're making similar objects, then they shouldn't ca...

Excellent point Tony but I don't thing that certifying is the key here. The market will weed out bad ones. I would take this board as an example. There is enough communication here on what happens at classes as to give rapid feedback to both instructors and studios on what is good and bad about cla...