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You can have to much water. From the way I understand how this works is that the water is used to suspend the frit particles so that you can get them in the mold and then they sink and snuggled together (notice how the frit left at the bottom of your cup of water is much harder than dry frit in the ...

That's really pretty, Nina. The colors are great.

Mike

What kind of mold are you using? Is it plastic, rubber (or one of the rubber type materials), is the opening small? I've had some molds that gave me trouble. The rubber ones that you have to flex and spread to pop out the object can be difficult for things like FnF because they are meant to be used ...

Yep, like the others said, very well done. I like the choice of colors too, they work very well together.

Mike

Stephen, yes, I probably fall in with the group that presses to hard as I do listen for the light sound of the glass being scored and I try to maintain the same pressure on most glass I cut, although I do tend to press a bit harder on float glass. I usually don't have any problems with straight line...

Hi Cynthia, Yes, I've stacked 2 3mm sheets together and cut them with my Taurus III ring saw. I use the wide clear packing tape to tape my patterns on, which is usually better than drawing them on which washes off faster than the taped pattern comes lose. I used the tape to tape the two pieces toget...

I've tried doing shapes with less curves than these have by hand and ended up wasting most of the glass. I know there are those that are very good at scoring and breaking, but I'm not one of them, even if I had lots of free glass to practice on. Some of us just have to live with our limitations. :D ...

It appears to me that you went to an awful lot of trouble for shapes that could easily be cut with more traditional methods. Don, you are absolutely correct. All of these I have cut out with my ring saw... but only in small numbers. And frankly, sitting in front of a ring saw with the noise and vib...

Fascinating, Mike. Thanks for sharing your experience. If you don't mind me asking, what was the charge for doing the cutting of the five sheets? I assume they based it on number of inches to cut or something like that. It was about $400. If I had planned a bit more and communicated a bit better I ...

Here is a picture of the stainless steel profiles I had cut out by waterjet (a front and edge view). They are un-polished, which I need to find the best way to do. I'm thinking of power coating them and turn them into fridge magnets or hot plates or hanging them out side. http://www.sitnprettyphoto....

For some years now, I've wanted to see about having some of my ideas cut out using the waterjet process. I've watched a lot of Youtube videos of waterjets cutting different shapes out of all kinds of material, including glass. Most of the glass that was used were sheets of thick glass, up to several...

I don't know a lot about creating lenses or mirror blanks but you have said you are making a mirror. Since you are going to have to grind to get it to the proper shape and then you are going to coat it with a reflective material, I wouldn't think it would matter what glass you used as long as it was...

No way! Husbands don't take pictures for wives... they are too critical and demanding. I'm a very long time photographer so you don't need to ask me how I know.

Mike

I've done a lot of FnF and if you use anything other than powder for small things, you are going to have problems most of the time. The power packs down very tight together and doesn't pull apart when it shrinks down during firing where the fine and bigger do not pack in tight. You can get away with...

The phone (depending on which one you have or the IPad can take decent pictures... not magazine quality, but for displaying on the web, they should be decent enough. The problem isn't the camera in the phone or IPad, it's the file. You will need to copy (or send) the image file to your computer so y...

You didn't say what your firing schedule was, but you may be firing higher than you need to. Fresh kiln wash or not, the higher you fire the greater the chance some will stick. You want to fire as low as you can to get the results you want, even if you have to extend the hold time out to compensate ...

Cate, their recommended slump schedule is:
300 to 1225 hold 85
9999 to 900 hold 60
100 to 700 hold 0
300 to 300 hold 0

Keep in mind that this is for Bullseye glass and their kiln although the same schedule did work in my Skutt kiln.

Good luck.

Mike

I've been doing small bowls using the Bullseye cone mold and other than the very first one being a little off around the lip I haven't had any problems. I checked the level of the mold with the glass sitting on top of the mold to make sure it was level and then had to be careful that the glass sat o...

Depending on how many you need and what you plan to do with them, you may find it easier to buy or create a mold and use frit to fuse them in the size and shape you want. Keep in mind that frit shrinks by about 25%, so you would want to size accordingly. This shape would work very well creating with...

I have two 100 pound bags (minus some I took out of each to put in a bucket that is still in it) of Olivine sand 80 and 120 grit I think, and a 50 pound bag of Bentonite that I bought several years ago from La Grande. I had planned on doing some sand casting but never got around to it. I've been pla...