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I sometimes use palladium leaf in the concealed parts of transparent castings, especially if they're against a wall or on a pedestal. The leaf will reflect just enough light to make the piece glow. Cynthia, how do you attach the palladium foil to the glass? Pete Usually I'm doing it as part of othe...

A glass lathe can do a lot of things, though; what specifically are you looking for from yours?

I think everyone's on the right track: This looks like both an annealing problem and an installation issue. First, the components are standing proud of the base glass, i.e., it is a tack-fuse, and those can require surprisingly slow anneal times to prevent introduction of stress. (So knowing the sch...

Hmmm. If you have a piece left over, try firing it on its own, without the turquoise. This one's really got me going.

Pics, please? Are we talking frit, sheet..? It's not supposed to contain copper-reactive stuff (sulfur/selenium/lead)...so are you sure it's opaline striker? Could it possibly be reactive cloud opal or translucent white? Both of those look sorta like opaline in the raw state and they definitely will...

Unless they're touching each other on the kilnwashed parts I wouldn't think it would be a problem...might take longer to release all the moisture, though, if you've got a bunch of molds very close together and all steaming out.

But what kilnwash cures at 800F?

Pinterest has a different model--it's supposed to be a scrapbook of illustrated weblinks that are supposed to drive traffic back to the owner's website. And they have a lot of different remedies for the infringement potential: -All pinned images are supposed to link back to the owner (although this ...

Oh I know. Photos from my blog occasionally show up somewhere online and I go through the whole takedown notice thing. There seems to be this sense that any photo placed on the web is (a) up for grabs and (b) will never be found out. Obviously they aren't familiar with Google image search or TinEye....

Good luck with that; I know publishers who won't sell their products in India because of the widespread copyright violations.

Clearly, hvartnglass.com doesn't really understand the techniques involved; they list fused glass, kilnformed glass, slumped glass, and bend glass as separate products.

I've had a couple of pieces mounted on flat LED panels with programmable color/intensity and thought they looked pretty good. Lightboxes are great if you've got a way to conceal the power source (or you don't mind telling the client to plug in the art). In my house I've had picture lights built in s...

Cynthia, to go back a few posts--how do you press the snipped bits of stringer, instead of putting it into a mold? I'd like to work with some of this technique, but I'd like it as thin and as easy to cut as possible. Thanks! Kate You lost me there...press the snipped bits of stringer? You mean, do ...

I don't think the single layer 1 1/2" rim is a good idea. You'll get pull in and maybe needles at edge. Both layers same dia. will give much more controlled results. It's a good idea if you manage the heatwork properly. You *do* get pull-in, but if you can control it the pull-in gives you a ve...

jim simmons wrote:with thin, outstretched arms is gonna be a real pain to anneal. (ask me how I know this)

Ok, how do you know this? :>)
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Waaaaaal...I can show you 2 glass sculptures with cracked arms...

Little bit of a topic drift, but Bullseyes change to anneal hold at 900 still has me scratching my head. The glass did not change.....they used 960 for 20 years. Were they suggesting the wrong temperature for 20 years. Not that it makes a huge difference. The only place it makes a huge difference i...

Yeah, the green kinda gives it away. ;-) I have a hankering for this compound miter-chop-wet-diamond-saw I once spied in a big glassblowing shop. Really beautiful, could slice through 8 inches of glass at all kinds of angles with almost no throat or table depth problems. They were using it to cut bi...

I'm really good at calculating the amount of glass to use in a mold. I'm really bad at believing my calculations, so I typically stick another billet or so in the mold at the last minute. When that happens I make some judicious incisions around the neck of the excess with a diamond cut-off wheel on ...

I did go ahead with the firing last weekend, with no hold at the 1300 temp. Luckily, it worked perfectly :) Good point on the annealing, I guess I have no idea if the 90 min hold was long enough. Is there a good resource for looking up annealing times for thicknesses? The flower is 6mm thick, the b...

For me? Neither. I prefer fiber chop, or fiber fabric. But what else are you using with the Ultracal?

Perfect. I am, and will always be, a writer. I made my living at writing, and at editing the writing of others, for years. I got out of the business of writing when people started calling it "content" and began selling it by the pound. Even so, four or five times a year someone contacts me...

Hold it, folks. Not enough information here to give a schedule that includes the anneal. How thick is the glass? A tack-fuse schedule (well, any schedule) depends on the thickness of the glass, the number of different thicknesses of glass you have, the types/colors of glass that are being used, and ...