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Jackie, I am drooling! That is such a beautiful composition. And i love the title. How apropos. I have often thought of Joseph's coat when looking at your work.

Congratulations.

barbara

Bert: ran slump test. Also tested with pyrometer. Brock: it was thermal shock. My annealing is fine. It was my theory that my annealing had been off until Bruce ran a temp test comparing the controller readout of temps with an external pyrometer. At that point I was pretty sure the ramp up was too f...

another option is to trim the delicate edges away with a saw or grinder. I like the delicate edges too, the way they fade into the base glass, but you are talking about a different animal here. Keep us posted on how this turns out, I can't wait to see!

Barbara

Hey y'all, I think it's upside down. If I remember correctly, Jackie's piece had the "serrated edge" on the right, not the left.

anal retentive girl....

That's interesting Dani. While not a military brat, I was born in another country - we immigrated to the US when I was very young. I have always found the campaigns that suggest limiting my purchasing to US made products limiting. I believe in buying quality. If made in the US can't compete quality-...

Kitty, one thing I took away from BECon is that fairly frequent testing of your kiln is a good thing. Kiln environments change, and keeping up with the change is a good thing.



all my best,
B

Jackie, while you may be having a pity party, I am celebrating the fact that you sent in that piece. I very much liked seeing the distillation of your dance of shapes and colors. When I looked at it up close I saw what I had not seen in the images online, that not only had you removed the color, but...

What I learned is that my ramp up of 200 dph for a 1/4 inch piece that was smooth but did have both black and white in it was too fast. Apparently, even though it had worked before, I had always been skating on thin ice, and it finally cracked. I would go up even more slowly than what you are sugges...

Pearl Paint is on Canal. You want an art supply? They have it. Wow! I haven't been to Wo Hop since about 1982. They still there??? Whwn I went back to NY in 98 I discovered Thai food and don't think I ever went to Chinatown for food in the 90s. Have to take Bruce there next time we go to NYC. Barbara

Interestingly enough, I had it also happen when I fired the second time with the irid side up on the second fire (after it had been down on the first) and with the irid side down on the second fire (after it had been up on the first). Still haven't tried two fires up. Two fires down, it happens too....

This artist gets better prices than most do for her dichro cabs. But she puts a lot more work into them as well. All are ground, many are faceted. She also makes some pretty nice cabs without dichro in them. I have emailed her to compliment her work in the past and she responded nicely. If you have ...

Hey Barb, love the new cosmos pieces! Congrats on the exposure!

B

I have gotten the sponge glass with irid. Think we had an exchange about this a while back on the board. Wasn't there a suggestion that the irid sponging may have been due to something in the BE kilnwash formulation? Of course that theory gets blown away if some of the lucky ones didn't use BE pinkw...

After the third piece exploded in my kiln this month, I decided that I must be doing something wrong, or my kiln is doing something wrong, or both. Ran the "know your kiln test". Evenivity confirmed, unevenivity hypothesis ruled out as a cause of death. My kiln always ran a smidge hot but ...

jake blues wrote: never had any luck with bull frit and plate it would last through the firing cycle and then explode after taking it out of the kiln

Jake are you saying that when you fused bullseye frit to bullseye sheet glass it exploded when you took it out of the kiln? Was the glass properly annealed?

lane, I think you will find several good examples in the warm glass gallery.

Barbara

sounds good to me Marty!

my cursed kiln thanks you Lani!

Okay, don't laugh at me. I was channel surfing this past weekend. QVC was selling a top only canopy for under $100. Have no idea how good it was, but it was dirt cheap.

Barbara

Cadia, I started with a simple Paragon Quickfire two and a half years ago. I had no controller so I babysat the kiln. I learned a lot about glass from the kiln, from reading this board and Brad's book (mostly from this board and the book), and from a few classes I took. A year ago I started firing i...