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- Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:43 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Schedules for Murano (Effetre)?
- Replies: 1
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- Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:39 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Spectrum 96 White - discoloration?
- Replies: 18
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- Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:35 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: E-6000 glue trouble for 1st time
- Replies: 19
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- Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:29 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Reactive glass firing and devit
- Replies: 4
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- Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:26 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: COE changing after multiple firings???
- Replies: 5
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- Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:41 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Trash Shelves; the next chapter
- Replies: 7
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The pottery supplier near me thinks I'm a little off my gourd. I come in with my level and paper and go over every shelf he has. If I can get the paper under the level I pass on that shelf. Remember to check across more than one direction. Fiber paper will get you by in the meantime, that's what I h...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:27 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Thoughtful work?
- Replies: 145
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Re: Artist's Statement
again, why do people feel that they need a connection to the artist? art is personal to the person looking at it, and what it means to them. why should a buyer care what the artist felt when designing/making a piece? are they expected to feel the same emotions that the artist did? if art didn't say ...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:40 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Is old kilnwash inert?
- Replies: 2
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Yeah, it's sort of a kind of dirt anyway. I might worry about the dye. Maybe you don't want it on your vegetable garden. It could also cause some change in the pH level of your soil if there was enough of it (a lot of plants really don't like things like plaster). I don't actually know this, it may ...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:35 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: first slump in a mold
- Replies: 10
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Perhaps there's something else going on here though. You shouldn't be getting needled edges at only 1250. They should still be almost as square as fresh cut glass. The description sounds as though the glass got much hotter than that. This was opalescent glass, so it may not be glass designed for fus...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:04 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: fusing with fiberboard to make holes
- Replies: 19
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- Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:05 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Beadblasting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9134
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:48 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: do sharpie marks burn off w/o leaving traces?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 31700
Well quite a while ago, I read on this board that Sharpie markers burnt off completely. Of course I had been religiously cleaning them off. Hey, I thought I could really use that black mark to get things centered on the form. Well, I agree with Brad - if you want them to burn off, they will stay, an...
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:30 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Kiln wash: ceramic vs glass
- Replies: 8
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- Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:17 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Cold working tools in Canada
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17873
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:12 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Finding Tin Side of Float Glass
- Replies: 17
- Views: 30571
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:55 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Beadblasting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9134
I presume a bead blaster is blasting with glass bead. I don't know about these, but glass bead isn't really an appropriate abrasive. There is inexpensive sandblasting equipment out there. Sears sells some, or try Princess Auto in Langley. You only need a really minimum setup. The little airbrush bla...
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:43 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Clear Cabochons
- Replies: 13
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- Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:50 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Help please! My first Devit experience....i think....
- Replies: 11
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- Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:45 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Is there a difference between peeking & flash venting?
- Replies: 8
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The popping and cracking sounds are coming from your elements. Crash cooling is pretty hard on your kiln. I used to do this, mostly because I was in a hurry to get the kiln down to the annealing range so I could go to bed. Open up the lid as far as I could and hold as long as I could stand the heat....
- Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:33 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Kilns
- Replies: 4
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Get a pyrometer for it. You just stick the probe through a peephole. You need this for your annealing cycle. You can fire by cones, they are actually quite useful. Start with 018 for slumping, 016 for tack fusing, 014 for fusing. Then you can adjust for your specific kiln. Probably the hardest part ...