tacking cast glass together
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:56 pm
I'm not sure if "tacking" is even the correct word, but what I'm trying to do is fuse together 2 thin glass snowflakes I made with the Colour de Verre snowflake mold (about 9 grams of frit in each snowflake) without the little decorative "arms" of the snowflakes slumping. I was thinking of cutting a donut shape out of fusing paper so the stacked snowflakes fuse together in the middle but the paper holds up the top tips. Then after firing, pulling/tearing the paper out from between the layers.
Would that work?
What kiln settings would I use? (Most of the glass casting of the individual snowflakes was done around 1320F for 17 minutes and down to 960F for 30 minutes in a cone-art beading annealing kiln).
You can see some of the snowflakes and how I intend to stack and fuse them together here; https://goo.gl/photos/CCt9LycMybTmp1ZA9 and here: https://goo.gl/photos/LPdVCWvDBfbjDhgk9
(in that last photo you can see the kiln paper I have too)
Any advice would be appreciated!
(because I'm a total noob!)
Would that work?
What kiln settings would I use? (Most of the glass casting of the individual snowflakes was done around 1320F for 17 minutes and down to 960F for 30 minutes in a cone-art beading annealing kiln).
You can see some of the snowflakes and how I intend to stack and fuse them together here; https://goo.gl/photos/CCt9LycMybTmp1ZA9 and here: https://goo.gl/photos/LPdVCWvDBfbjDhgk9
(in that last photo you can see the kiln paper I have too)
Any advice would be appreciated!
(because I'm a total noob!)