newbie float question
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newbie float question
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If I wanted to try a bowl, ect using float glass and I should use 2 layers of glass? can I cap colored float with clear or should I use two layers of the colored? Can anyone give me a suggestion for a firing sched for a Skutt? thanks, Archie
If I wanted to try a bowl, ect using float glass and I should use 2 layers of glass? can I cap colored float with clear or should I use two layers of the colored? Can anyone give me a suggestion for a firing sched for a Skutt? thanks, Archie
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I saw the Armstrong glass recently and was somewhere between astonished and angry. It is simply enamel smeared on thin float glass. Since much float glass is not compatible, this looks to me to be a particularly worthless material, not to mention ugly.hoknok wrote:Archie,
I think Armstrong glass has introduced new colors for float glass. Maybe you could combine these colors since they have the same coe. They are made to work with float. I have not tried them but it looks promising.
I heard a rumour that Youghiogheny has some float compatible colors, but I don't know anything about them. They are not listed on their website.
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Seems to me that "float compatible" glass would be pointless. How do you make a glass compatible with all float when float isn't always compatible with float.Bert Weiss wrote:I heard a rumour that Youghiogheny has some float compatible colors, but I don't know anything about them. They are not listed on their website.
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I heard the same thing about Youghiogheny glass. In fact the owner of the company is the one that told me that late last August. I have been watching the web site ever since. He said they would post it. My question is how can the statement be made that it is compatiable. Well I guess it is compatiable with some float.
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Yes and no but you'll have stress cracks at the very minimum. KevinKathie Karancz wrote:I also would like to know whether it would be OK to tack fuse stringers of any kind to something like float. Do you think that tack fusing something that is definitely not compatible and it being something as thin as stringers - would it eventually break off?????
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Hi Kathie -Kathie Karancz wrote:I also would like to know whether it would be OK to tack fuse stringers of any kind to something like float. Do you think that tack fusing something that is definitely not compatible and it being something as thin as stringers - would it eventually break off?????
I've seen very small amounts of incompatible enamel crack the surface of float. I've also seen a different color of the same brand/type enamel work fine.
I'd expect most stringers would cause some kind of problem -- test, test, test.