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the balls go under the wicket. the copper/glass one got bought by a croquet nut last year and is his queen wicket, it is doing fine. this years is a platter in a temperary wooden wicket frame. after the tournament, they can remove the platter as the frame is held together with thumbnuts on bolts. r...

Jerry I've definitely noticed an overall trend in the past 6 months towards a decline in customer service in all kinds of different fields. Just add Spectrum to the list... it depends. i'm not sure this is a universal in all walks of life. i've noticed that a lot of stores are going way out of thei...

aren't wickets smacked with large wooden balls, and possibly a mallet? are these for decoration or meant to be used? if the latter, isn't using glass a poor idea?

i doubt that it was the holes either. you can fill them with just making a paste of kiln wash and dabbing a little in the hole, since of course you didn't make them too large. are the edges of the crack soft or sharp? that'll tell you when they were made (ramp up/down) and you can change the schedul...

'Trying to fire a large plate, at least 20" across, two layers of clear, plus decoration... I called Bullseye, and got another firing schedule, that goes up 300° an hour to 1250, then up to 1500°.. Annealing 3 hours, and reducing 60° an hour to 700°... I'm using five coats of Bullseye kiln...

slow down between 1100 and 1250 during fusing. that will tend to eliminate bubble formations between the layers, especially if you're using a complete piece of glass as any layers except the bottom.

no need to crash. just program in an afap (9999 on most controllers) decrease to your annealing temp.

furthermore, for everyone who says leave the colors alone, someone else is saying 'at last, a yellow that i like'. something about can't please everyone comes to mind.

Charlie, The mold is about 1/4 in thick. looks like a plate that might be found in ceramics bisque only with 4 holes in it. I think that I really need to get it up off the kiln shelf. Next try will be on kiln furniture. This has been the biggest learning curve I have had for quite a while. I am rea...

thanks for the reviews. i just took delivery on a demo model from the factory at a fantastic price. it looks new except for a little bit of usage on the belt. i just have to pick up the hardware to make the water feed bucket and i'm ready to go.

The flat fuse is okay (and there is no stress evident under the polarized film) but the slumping process hasn't been successful yet. The one time I thought I had succeeded (this last schedule mentioned above), the piece cracked somewhere lower than 750 which was where I had last peeped in the windo...

Barb I soaked 40 minutes. That seemed to be enough for the fuse. That is also what was recommended by Spectrum. It was all Spectrum glass. Did you ever think that some piece wasn't meant to be? That is how I am beginning to think about this one. I will start all over and try another. It was very Ch...

no connection to this seller, but they've got a bunch of these available:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :B:SS:MT:1

selling pretty cheap

Brian and Jenny Blanthorn wrote:This came up over craftweb recently

The best advice as I saw it was fish tank silicone

Another consideration is problem colours which could give thermal shock problems with sun / ice / water

fishtank silicone is regular silicone without the algaicides added.

denatured alcohol has 'stuff' added to make it denatured. what this is can be lots of different stuff, and you'd have no idea what it was bottle to bottle. anything that you don't know what it is is suspect.

I have not used it but based on reputation and quality of what I've seen the MK100 I'm guessing is what I would get. I need to check the specifications. I'm looking to get a tile saw that will cut 20" or even bigger strips if I can. Most are limited to 16", maybe 18". Steve Immerman ...

But I looked at a piece I did last night with gold BE rainbow on the bottom and orange on the top with chunks of other colors. :o The thing is full of trapped bubbles on one half. None of my other pieces have this. my partner, who is a glass blower and all round science guy, said that to him it loo...

Nanc Some time back Spectrum suggested a firing schedule for a 12" 3 or 4 layer platter where the initial heat up from Room Temp to 1000 was 900 degrees per hour. Well, I followed their recommendations with a three layer piece and I heard the explosion in the next room! The bottom of the three...

I want to try to put an iridescent coating on some of my glass pieces. I have read the procedure on this site but am having difficulty getting a glass sprayer to apply the solution. Can anyone suggest where I can get a suitable sprayer and has anyone used this procedure? If you have done it are the...

I need some bisque or stainless numbers to slump a number in a plate for my daughters 30 birthday. Any clue where to get them? Thanks DEborah :P umm, make them? buy a lump of clay at a ceramics place. cut off a hunk. get 2 pieces of wood of the desired thickness of your #s. put pieces along side th...

Point taken, as the process of galavnization is acid coating iron with zinc oxide...is the residual acid the problem ?as for the zinc its used in many pottery glazes with out any problems.Colin google is your friend. from http://www.chaingang.org/faq.html: Why don't you use galvanized steel? In sho...