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UPDATE: Landlord has decided to turn the space into warehouse. So now what's for sale is the entire studio - Equipment Custom-built dedicated sandbed kiln, 72” x 40” (81” x 41” external dimensions) Custom-built casting kiln with bottom, side and top elements, 60” x 30” shelf Bell lid with quartz ele...

business real estate broker Thanks, Andy. I will sure look into it at some point. My concern is that the potential market for such a specialized business is probably going to be very narrow, and wouldn't the broker have to know something about that specific market? It seems unlikely that someone wh...

After more than five years of owning a large studio just outside Atlanta, I'm nearing the age to retire. Best case scenario: Sell the studio as a business, complete with large kilns, coldworking equipment, and lots of glass, as well as mailing list for workshops, firing schedules and any needed trai...

I am using a basic plaster/silica/water mix, all equal amounts by weight. Besides the soda lime glass I have also been casting float which, according to the schedule I have, needs to go to 1950 degrees. The molds cracked in that firing and I wonder if the higher heat is a factor and should I increa...

The lower density board will insulate the glass you are heating and make the firing slower and longer. The higher density board would allow more heat transmission through conduction of the kiln heat through the material and into the glass. The lower density board because it is less dense has infini...

I cast some containers (1/2” thick) using vermiculite lined with 1/16” fiber paper. Plaster-silica form in the middle. It worked OK, but the fiber lining was a pain. I’d like to try: -Coating the vermiculite with plaster-zircopax mix (40-60). Charlie Holden (whose studio I inherited) had this in his...

Thank you so much, Brad.

Having recently poked around on some of the Facebook groups for warm glass, I appreciate this forum even more than before (and that was already a lot).

In the studio I inherited from Charlie Holden, I found three bags of powder from the ceramic store: nickel oxide, chromium oxide, and copper carbonate. (The nickel oxide is black, the chromium is a gorgeous dark green, and the copper is a light green.) I know these can be used in ceramic glazing, an...

I have always used BE “Annealing Thick Slabs” schedules for pieces of any size. The smallest thick pieces I’ve fired have been 6” by 8”. Another glass artist showed me a smaller piece that was a uniform 1-inch thick, about 4” by 4”, and said it didn’t need to follow the BE schedule for annealing bec...

check out www. Panacol-USA , I have used a lot of their adhesives with great success. They even have some of my applications shown on their website. They make a lot of different adhesives depending upon your application. They used to be called Tangent Industries but were merged with a European comp...

Thanks, Jennifer. I was only familiar with Hxtal as advertised on the Hang Your Glass page - this is a much better explanation. Had not tried it because it’s so expensive, but this information convinces me it’s worth a shot.

I have “inherited” a well-equipped 2,000 sq foot glass studio in Decatur, GA. It’s a bit complicated (explained below), but, I’m wondering if anyone has experience with running a studio for group use - a guild, a collective, a membership structure? In the short time that I’ve offered it for open stu...

Interested in recommendations regarding glues and silicones for the following use cases: 1-Assemblage of small, clear glass pieces (e.g. a sculpture composed of different kinds of glasses that aren’t compatible for fusing). I have used Loctite glass glue. It dries clear, stays clear, is fairly stron...

I’m going to start a new thread about GLUES.

Just for your future knowledge... If you tried to fuse single thickness glass by butting edges together... they will actually pull away form each other at fusing temps... leaving gaps (holes) in the final piece. Thanks. I was wondering about that! Kevin suggested using some kind of flux to make the...

Thanks so much for the firm replies, everyone. You’ve saved me a lot of time and frustration.

Thank you Kevin. Your list seems to cover all the bases. I don’t know what I would use for flux - would appreciate ideas on that. Have never worked with antique glass so I don’t even know how to research such a thing. Or what the fusing temperature might be. I’ve only played around with Bondix UV gl...

An acquaintance has an antique cabinet from England that has broken gravity glass in one of the two panels. He wants to know if we can fuse the broken pieces together. The break was fairly clean but there are a lot of pieces: 239ED37E-FD35-42E4-8D5E-BC5110427AB0.jpeg I haven’t seen the glass in pers...

I've had no problems with the series of heavy solid fused crushed glass masks I made in 1992 with copper wire embedded in the back for wall hanging. The best hanger was 12 gauge copper wire bent in a U and pushed deeply under the crush prior to melting. Your experience may vary. Interesting - good ...

Many of the wire and glass pieces made in the 1970's are now starting to crack. And I've seen fused wire pieces crack much more quickly than that when the wire is thicker. The COE for most metals is 150 or higher. Wow, that’s very good to know! Wish I could remember where I read about using wire in...