Help - Revisited
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Help - Revisited
ok, let me re-phrase: when laying out design layer on top of base layer can pieces butt together or should a gap be left between pieces? appreciate the help. also, i picked the skutt hotstart as my first kiln. did i choose ok? thanks again.
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Tony Smith
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Again, it depends.
When glass full fuses, it will gather until it is 1/4 inch thick. If you have a single base layer of 1/8" glass and you have scattered pieces on top, you can't really be sure what you'll get since the glass will try to pull in between each of the second layer pieces. You could piece a pattern together on the second layer with no gaps and that would work fine.
As far as the Skutt, if it's the new kiln that Spectrum is promoting, you might really want to learn the controller well, since you'll probably be over-riding its program quite a bit.
Tony
When glass full fuses, it will gather until it is 1/4 inch thick. If you have a single base layer of 1/8" glass and you have scattered pieces on top, you can't really be sure what you'll get since the glass will try to pull in between each of the second layer pieces. You could piece a pattern together on the second layer with no gaps and that would work fine.
As far as the Skutt, if it's the new kiln that Spectrum is promoting, you might really want to learn the controller well, since you'll probably be over-riding its program quite a bit.
Tony
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