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Thank you for the help. I am going to adjust accordingly and try again.

Thank you for responding, I so appreciate the help. I can slow it down from 960 to 850, but how much? Would you mind sharing your annealing schedule? Do you think my ramp up schedule is appropriate for multiple firings? I would think that cool down on subsequent firings would need to be as slow as t...

Jim, Thank you for your response. I have suspected this might be an incompatibility problem, but I don't know how to tell for sure. I thought maybe the break would follow the color boundary. I have read the BE article. I have done lots of combings over the years with 96 glasses, but this is the firs...

Maybe the real question I have is about reheating a combed piece. I use Patty Gray's combing schedule that has a 4hour hold at 960 and a 2 hour hold at 850 and then slowly down from there. I then add the side pieces and reheat with the firing schedule in my first entry. My question is: When reheatin...

Ah, thank you.

Thank you for the reply. I don't understand the relationship between venting the kiln and reduced thermal shock. Can you explain?

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I need some advice… I had high hopes for this piece, but it cracked on the way up during a polish. The edges of the break were rounded and partially fused back together. Hopefully I have successfully attached the photo. It had a combed center and pattern bar sides. I’d like to try it again, but I’d ...

The fish looks great. I too have the ebook. Nice tip on the plastic dip too. Just for the record, I put the piece together with DP105 on an acrylic block and it is still hanging.

Bert,
I think the HYG cabinet posts might work for me. They are a little long, but at least I can attach them from behind the wooden panel. Thanks, Sandy

Thanks for the idea Judd. I hadn't seen the large bumpers. My glass is highly textured and I have been trying to avoid the hardware being visible. I may have to start looking for ways to disguise L hooks.

Any other thoughts out there?
Sandy

Hi, I am trying to mount a flat fused piece of glass to a painted wooden panel to be hung vertically. The glass is 12" x 12" and approximately 3/8" thick, weight approximately 3.5 lbs. The glass is a variety of cathedral colors. I want to visually float the glass about 1/2" away ...

Thank you for the input. I refired the piece with a very conservative schedule as follows. It seems to have annealed properly, but I can still see where the original fracture was. At least now I can cut it up for something else without it breaking into pieces. 100 300 H10 100 800 h10 100 1050 h10 20...

I have been working on my first larger combings (18" x 18"). Now, a few weeks after taking them out of the kiln, I have one that is badly cracked starting out from the center. I have another that has just a tiny fracture beginning. I would like to re-fire the one with the little crack and ...

Thank you both for the quick answer. I'll go on about my merry way.
Sandy

I am making some float glass bowls for a charity project. I have been cutting up any float glass I can find. I have a UV lamp, and most of the time can tell which is the tin side using the lamp. I recently cut up a clear table top and noticed no difference from one side of the glass to the other und...