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Then can be portrait or landscape. No rules as to what you are wearing or not wearing, as long as you are doing cold work. Is this a new rule that we have to be doing coldworking or did I miss it the first time among the thousands of posts? Gale and I have the BEST idea for something that's not col...

The other day I wanted to make some thick pieces of glass out of some old BE scrap I had. The colors I was using were transparent neolavendar and clear irrid. I've done this before with success, and so I'm completely baffled what happened this time. I used BE dams for two smaller pieces, both in neo...

You can make your own body mold from investment. To do this, pick a "victim" to make the mother mold from. Cover the area you want to cast with vaseline to keep the mold from sticking to the skin or body hair. Use the strips of plaster inpregnated material like doctors use to make casts fr...

In the a few days I'll be doing something I've not tried before --slumping a very thick, assymetrically shaped piece of glass over a very large stainless S-mold. Background: The piece is made of BE clear sheet and has been fired to achieve this thickness and the decorative elements several times alr...

Rodney -

Don't send unsolicited email to people in CA after the first of the year. You can be fined big time for each occurrance.

Geri

Heh. It depends on why I'm using it and what I hope to achieve by using it. I like ThinFire for smooth bottoms on pieces but don't use it very often since most of the time kilnwash is fine. I like 550-J for kiln carving, texturing, etc. Before I got my BE kiln shelves and was constantly blowing bubb...

ACC offers insurance for artist's work. They may offer health insurance, as well.

Geri

Heh. Thanks, Paul. David mentioned them to me just the other day and I'd forgotten the name of their site already (middle age, holiday overload induced brain fade, I guess).

Will check them out!

Geri

what size grit do I need to start coldworing edges.....still say....would love a class in coldworing At BECon in August, there was an optional workshop on coldworking at the Lepisto's studio in Portland. I don't know if this is something they teach regularly, but I did learn some tricks in it. You ...

My new addition is the studio is books on CD. I had a CD/tape player with radio in the studio, but it's not working too well after 5 years there. I only use the radio part now. Santa brought me a new one which I will use when i do metal work. This one will be kept far, far away from the buffing mach...

If you fire it hot enough you may get lucky and it will burn off. Some lustres don't hold up about 1450. Don't know about the one you're using.

Sandblasting works to get it off. Etching may get it off. Handpads may get it off.

Good luck!

Geri

Urk. Well, so far I haven't been using paper and it's worked just fine because I've kilnwashed the dams. But last night 2 of the new dams fell over and unkilnwashed mullite ended up next to the glass and left me with a cracked piece. I either have to brace the dams or use paper in the future. Oh wel...

This is my personal opinion only. Take it for what it's worth. Most people shopping on ebay are looking for bargains or something they couldn't find locally or something they just couldn't find period. In the past year using ebay, I've bought used books on CD, an antique sofa, and an antique tapestr...

LOL. When I grow up I wanna be just like Famous Marty. I'll use that technique then. But for now, I found some old kiln shelves I thought I'd thrown away years ago and cut some nice long dams from them. Cutting those 24" long by 1" thick Thorley shelves was a bit of a challenge for my poor...

Thanks, guys. That's the information I was looking for.

Geri

A while ago there was a post somewhere about someone who makes mullite damns longer than the ones made by BE. I have a the BE ones, which work great, but they aren't long enough for the piece I'm making. Does anyone have a source for mullite dams longer than 10"? I'm looking for something about...

I don't know what you're slumping, but that sounds awfully fast to me. I'm really surprised you haven't had breakage.

What kind of glass are you using and what are you slumping (how big, how thick, etc.)?

250F is the rate at which I generally slump.

Geri

Several things could have caused this to happen...among them...there could be a problem with your controller, a problem with the connection between your controller and the kiln, a burned out element, a burned out connector between the element and the wiring. If you don't know how to check for and re...

Alot of speeding up cooling rates in your particular kiln takes experimentation to understand your particular kiln and it's limitations. Mine is a top loader, which helps in this process immensely. I also live in CA and my kiln is in my garage. Temps out there rarely get below 60F and there's no dra...

Magic? Could it be magic? I had something similar happen about 9 years ago. I made a bowl by stacking sheets of transparent red, yellow and orange together. I was trying to make persimmon color that way. Much to my surprise, from the top, the bowl looked green. From underneath it was a deep red. Whe...