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Carla, all you need to do is remove the : and the numbers inside the first image tag in your signature using your control panel to have just [img] in front of your photo url. The new board added the size of the photos to the first image tag of all the photos posted on the old board. Only the origin...

What a timely question. Last week I started recycling glass block into vases, small aquariums and terrariums.What I want to do next is drill a small hole near the top of the "back" side in order to hang the block on the wall. I've posted one jpeg on my yahoo photo album. You'll see one al...

At full fuse glass wants to maintain a thickness of 6mm. Chances are your rods will suck up trying to get to that thickness.

Carla

Mike at auralens can make them in your prescription....even better then smashing another pair of glasses on you face....Or he made me clip-ons.

Carla

My parents were perfectionists and as a child it drove me crazy. I told myself I'd "never be like that." Of course, we should never say never. Here I am a metalsmith and novice glassie both of which require a lot of anal perfectionism. On the days I go off the anal deep end, I think of man...

Talk to Guy McDonald at TeaMac. His website is: http://www.teamacinc.com/ We personally do not use him, yet.....cuz when we found out about him we were already hooked up with Novus. But many artists speak very highly of him and his service. We are thinking about changing and Guy is the man we will g...

I filled my bubbly pasta bowl with tap water and heated it to boiling in the mw. It didn't break. I was afraid of thermo shock too. But it lived to be used another day.

Carla

I don't have the technical info, but yes, this stuff is bad for lungs. Hopefully, someone with more info then me will fill in the blanks. You can also go to: http://www.gregorieglass.com/HS_menu.htm This wonderful person has written up a whole bunch of info on safety and warm glass. He's a saint in ...

You do know to wear a respirator during the scraping (ie dusty) stage don't you?

Carla, who doesn't always think of these things

I'm still puzzled by this, since I microwave on my plates all the time and never have had problems. Is there really any water left in the bubbles after all they have gone thru in the kiln. I would think any water is long gone before the glass ever fuses. So is the air in the glass bubbles expanding?...

Hummm, I must be living on the edge. I have plates with bubbles I microwave them, dishwasher them, bang em around. They are fine. The only problem I had was after running one under the broiler for the 10th or so time, it broke. But the microwave has never affected them.

Carla

Have you tried bending them using a torch or candle flame? Candles work well with the thinner stringers.

Carla

So Tammy at evenheat says this is normal. What does she say is wrong with all the other kilns whose lids don't warp, don't leak heat, and fire evenly? :lol: [/u] I've been thinking of this. It may be a venting solution. My evenheat holds the heat for a long time. This maybe the way evenhead allows ...

We too, have this big evenheat coffin kiln. I too, noticed that once it heats the lid does not sit down fully. I too, worried about this. But I went ahead and ran it. It works, does the job....holds heat well. In fact I think it takes forever to cool off. So maybe this lid deal is within the paramet...

I'm kind of laughing, thinking about a possible letter of complaint: Dear Show Promoters, I suspect that artist so-and-so is doing buy-sell, and should be appropriately disciplined. Also, the artist in booth #xxx is a real jerk. Please remove this person from your show. Sincerely, Disgruntled Potent...

Randy:
Thanks for sharing. That was informative and grand to look at.

C.

We (a royal we, the partner actually) are wizards at cutting round circles for plates. But we (meaning me) had a grand idea to work with opalescent BE to make some full size opal'nt plates. My master cutter scored his circle and then turned it over (as he does with clears) to put pressure to run the...

Absolutely golden info.

Thanks for sharing.

Carla

This discussion brings up many feelings and thoughts for me. I have a former friend who not only adopted many of my designs (in jewelry) but also bought similar items to display her jewelry on. It became so confusing people couldn't tell our displays apart. I finally separated from her permanently d...

Steve: I have noticed we have a 25° difference between our big evenheat and small skutt. The small skutt does the same fuse at a higher temp. I didn't reconcile them. I have a series of test tiles I did in both kilns at their corresponding temps so I know which kiln does what at which temp. (Follow...