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- Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:12 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Should I switch to System 96?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24746
Re: Should I switch to System 96?
1) First of all, while this is all true about Bullseye, I found their representatives to be exceedingly arrogant, rude and obnoxious. A long time ago I decided to make art with 96 rather than put up with unprofessional behavior. Considering the posts for incompatibility/ devitrification/ etc. I have...
- Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:46 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: small crack in a fused piece
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12481
Re: small crack in a fused piece
If I fire at low temps like 1500, I use copper leaf, other metals, or enamels. I have had great results with Gil Reynold's enamels that he sells at Fusion Headquarters. http://www.fusionheadquarters.com/category_s/47.htm The cobalt blue, yellows and greens are awesome. The reds tend to wash out if I...
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:24 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Can I slump directly on a kiln shelf without a mold?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7849
Re: Can I slump directly on a kiln shelf without a mold?
I fire and slump on the floor of my kiln all the time.
1) Cover the floor with kiln wash (which you should do anyhow in case of an accident).
2) Extend your anneal time.
1) Cover the floor with kiln wash (which you should do anyhow in case of an accident).
2) Extend your anneal time.
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:21 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: small crack in a fused piece
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12481
Re: small crack in a fused piece
If you're using float glass, I'd hit 1525 Fahrenheit then immediately go to my anneal schedule.
Temps for my kiln. Your temps may vary.
Temps for my kiln. Your temps may vary.
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:18 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: small crack in a fused piece
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12481
Re: small crack in a fused piece
Love that piece.
Nope. You fire it or you glue it. That's pretty much your only choices.
I'd refire.
You're using float glass? Love that. I have to hit 1800 or so to make my colors bloom like that.
Nope. You fire it or you glue it. That's pretty much your only choices.
I'd refire.
You're using float glass? Love that. I have to hit 1800 or so to make my colors bloom like that.
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:15 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23041
Re: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
I'll try that too. Thank you.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:42 pm
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23041
Re: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
Sorry Don, we miscommunicated. I said in the initial post it was 3"x10" long. The block is 3" thick.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:50 am
- Forum: Photos and Stuff
- Topic: Some of my Stuff
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11854
Re: Some of my Stuff
The final product.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:50 am
- Forum: Photos and Stuff
- Topic: Some of my Stuff
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11854
Some of my Stuff
The cut pattern bar.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:49 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23041
Re: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
the finished product here.
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:48 am
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23041
Re: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
If it will upload, this is an example of what I'm doing.
- Wed Aug 16, 2017 1:30 pm
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: coloured rolled figure glass
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6187
Re: coloured rolled figure glass
This is stained glass window glass, not fusing glass?
If it's stained glass window glass, who knows? Many times they will strike to a Poop Color that NO ONE WILL BUY or WANT!!!
But, hey, experiment. Throw a small slice in the kiln when you do your next batch and see what happens.
If it's stained glass window glass, who knows? Many times they will strike to a Poop Color that NO ONE WILL BUY or WANT!!!
But, hey, experiment. Throw a small slice in the kiln when you do your next batch and see what happens.
- Wed Aug 16, 2017 1:26 pm
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23041
Cutting Very Thick Glass Slabs
I put this in the New-Bee section because I must be doing something wrong. So, I bought the Harbor Freight 10" tile saw. Love it. And I bought the His Glassworks blade. This one to be exact: 10 Inch x .040 Inch Result Medium Diamond Blade So, I'm sawing slabs of glass, approximately 3" wid...
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 1:44 pm
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: Gallery %
- Replies: 9
- Views: 42488
Re: Gallery %
My gallery charges me 38%, but I live in the Little Rock, Arkansas, Metro area.
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 9:43 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Pot melt for Patten bar slices
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6931
Re: Pot melt for Patten bar slices
You could make a rectangular mold, 6" long, 3" deep, 3" wide. Put a rectangle of clear glass on the bottom of the mold, an inch smaller than the mold. However, when I fire into molds, I don't bother with putting clear on the bottom of the mold.
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 9:35 am
- Forum: Art, philosophy, and content
- Topic: The ethics of deconstructing and sharing secret techniques
- Replies: 11
- Views: 51453
Re: The ethics of deconstructing and sharing secret techniques
You copyright the final product, not the technique. I may become a pariah in anyone's glass shop... but how many glass shops do you visit? If the technique is so simple that you can figure it out, then anyone can figure it out. It's unfair that an artist would spend his life discovering a new techni...
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:30 am
- Forum: Business Topics
- Topic: Spectrum Update
- Replies: 2
- Views: 26609
Re: Spectrum Update
"Your friends..."
Yeah... that always makes me nervous.
Yeah... that always makes me nervous.
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:34 pm
- Forum: Newcomer Forum
- Topic: bubble up
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7060
Re: bubble up
You can achieve boiled glass (or the effect) with lower temps and longer holds. Still, some COE shift occurs.
- Fri May 20, 2016 12:15 pm
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: Devit Spray and Dichoric
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8548
Re: Devit Spray and Dichoric
My experience is that Homemade Anti-Devit spray removed iridized surfaces from fusible glass - but I've not tried it on dichroic. Good luck and post pictures please.
- Thu May 19, 2016 9:30 am
- Forum: Techniques and Tools
- Topic: SPECTRUM GLASS CLOSING DOWN
- Replies: 29
- Views: 92293
Re: SPECTRUM GLASS CLOSING DOWN
Don McClennen,
Why flatten bottles when you can make art?
And, insensitive? Spectrum was a business. Their business model didn't succeed. That's life. Nothing sensitive or insensitive about it.
Why flatten bottles when you can make art?
And, insensitive? Spectrum was a business. Their business model didn't succeed. That's life. Nothing sensitive or insensitive about it.