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There is a lot of progress being made in US manufactured kilns for glass with engineering them from a glassmaker’s perspective instead of just modifying ceramics kilns.

More stuff on Kenneth...

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthr ... did=145135

Becca, The class was in Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ. Kenneth is not only an awesome artist, but an incredibly patient and interesting teacher. He knows the history of glass painting thoroughly. I have never painted in my life and the piece I did actually turned out alot better than I imagined it ...

Definitely check out Ikea. I bought a table the other day that comes with a 3 by 5ish foot frosted tempered glass top. You can put flourescents under the table. The table was $149. Here are a couple of options from Ikea: http://www.ikea-usa.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=1010...

By the way, this is where I was finding the manufacturers of propane based heating elements:

http://www.infraredheaters.net/

I saw that the Spaceray RSCA series units heat up to 1800F.

Bob

Anyone ever try making a glass kiln using a propane fueled, infrared ceramic heating system? I took a class on traditional kiln fired glass painting from Kenneth Leap a couple of weeks ago. His work is awesome - http://www.jkennethleap.com/mainindex.htm He used a Hoaf Speedburner II that took the gl...