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You two are not alone. This subject has been discussed over and over but there are always new people joining in and inevitable it will come up again. There are probably hundreds of posts in the archives regarding the tin side of float. Judy Hi Judy I´ve been reading all posts about this topic sinc...

bernie wrote:
Thanks for posting that - you beat me to it. I also am clueless on what
tin side is. I have looked at my plate glass /float glass and sure don't
see any difference. bernie

Thanks God!!!
I´m not the only one...

After all this time working with float glass, I don´t know wich is the tin side...
Is the lamp that is used to discover it the same that is used to cure UV glue?
Please, don´t laugh, I can hear it...
Katia

H Nancy I use contact lenses, and had had dryness problems last year. During some time I used glasses, but now I use my contact lenses, and I am very careful, as I was told to be by many friends from the board, and use googles to look inside the kiln... I hate glasses, can´t live without my contact...

Roderick Sulte wrote:I gradually got into glass fusing last year - I'm definately just a beginner but am having a lot of fun.

Well I´m still a beginner, but it´s amazing that you did this so beautiful pieces with so little time of experience!
Congratulations, I loved your work
Katia

I found one at
http://www.glass-supply.com/book-kiln.html 45 dolars and at
http://www.delphiglass.com/index.cfm?it ... e=itemView only 38 dolars...
Katia

I imagine you want
Kervin, Jim and Fenton, Dan. Pate de Verre and Kiln Casting of Glass.
I bought mine at
http://www.whitehouse-books.com/glasbook.html
wich is one of the sponsors of the board.
Katia

Hey folks Bert, About the comment from Delores, " Charlie--- ludo is crushed up old fired plaster so that would be a 70% plaster to 30% silica ratio with might be too tough a mix for delicate pate de verre but it might be the holy grail for large cast pieces that weigh 40 plus pounds. I'm not ...

Katia, can't you just get your own silica off the beach in rio? Or is it too hard to sift out all the cigarettes and thong bikinis? Well, now I am completely lost :?: I am used to buy silica(flint, quartz) as a powder so thin as the plaster. On the beach we have sand. I know sand is silica, but I a...

Why do not have a poll on this proposition?
As a new glassworker, I need to have a critics space.
Katia

Delores I was under the impression that the ideal mix has 40% plaster by weight and that doing it by volume, more or less approximates that figure. I think the idea is to have just enough plaster to get it to set up hard enough to work. When I make up recipes by weight, I leave the plaster at 40% a...

charlie holden wrote:The "Casting With the Best" cd is revealing in this regard.
ch

I was not able to buy this CD.
HWere did you get it?
Thanks
Katia

Hi
My new silica arrived today, and I made some beautiful molds!
The problem was bad plaster or bad silica...
Thanks a lot.
By the way, the mold I made using plaster / sand / talc worked fine, no cracks at 870 celcius.
Katia

doctac wrote:beautiful site brock but it doesnt explain how it is done.

This site has a picture of how it´s donne. I think it is amazing...
http://www.brottworks.com/woven.html?95,26
Katia

Sorry, yes it is no devit at all!
Katia

I was the last, but it arrived!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved it, but I have to say that Spab is by far the most photogenic
Thanks for all this wonderfull work!
Katia

I´ve done some hi fires that I liked only with float.
I put some scraps, siffed porcelain paint, more scraps, another paint color (total 3 or 4 colors), siffed lots of Borax over all and it really worked, do devit, and good colors.
But remember that I am new to all this too!
Katia

Absolutely amazing.
Katia

Hi Dave
The pattern is very friendly, blue is a color that gives me the feeling of freshness.
Congratulations
Katia

Hi Delores I received today a new package of plaster and silica. You may disbelieve, but I can´t buy silica here in Rio de janeiro, I have to buy it in São Paulo -thank God for the net... Tomorow I´ll throw off all the old stuff and try all over again. What do you think will happens with the plas...