Molds for glass slumping can get a bit expensive and a bit limiting in just what you can do. You can, of course, make you own molds using plaster, clay and fibre products such as board and mat. The fibreboard product seemed to me to be a good alternative at a reasonable price. Looking at …
Just a quick post about the devitrification I have been experiencing on my fused glass work I have been having quite a bit of trouble with devitrification on a number of items, not just cabochons. My first thought was to blame the firing schedule, then specific colours of glass. In an effort to work this …
In our current stock of glass we have a lot of 2mm Bullseye fusible 90 COE glass. This is fine for some projects, but for others there is the problem of not enough glass volume. If you are not aware, surface tension tends to try and make glass conform to a thickness of 6mm. For …
Hope you are enjoying this journey and I sincerely hope that I haven’t bored you into saying goodbye. Please hang in there, things will get more interesting. This was another full fuse for cabochons, some dots and a puddle. You may ask why another test. Well, I firmly believe that testing to see what happens …
Hey, I’m getting game now. Time to try making a fused glass slumped bowl. In our first purchase of materials we did purchase a couple of ceramic molds for bowls. As usual, we don’t do things by halves so we purchased the largest bowl that would fit in our Paragon Fusion 14 kiln. The kiln …
My son recently purchased and moved into a new apartment, his first, so thoughts turned to an ‘apartment warming’ gift. I thought about making a clock to match his décor, but the last clock I made didn’t work that well so I decided not to test my luck. After a little thought and discussion with …
My apologies, again, I forgot to take an ‘after’ photo of the firing, but you should get the idea from my comments. This firing was just to create a stack of clear and black dots, as well as rescue a few that didn’t work in a previous firing. My plan for the dots is to …
In this firing I tried making cabochons with three layers of glass. This probably is a more normal method, capping with clear glass, so I expected this to work well and with few issues. As usual, I added a few other bits to see what happened. This probably going to be my approach always; adding …
This full fuse firing was all about testing a few ideas to make glass cabochons for jewellery. You will notice in the ‘Before’ photo that the items are placed on separate pieces of BullsEye Thinfire kiln shelf paper. For no specific reason other than to use up the paper offcuts. All glass is BullsEye COE …
This was my first attempt at a fused glass clock face, but it was a bit of a disaster from the beginning. However, there are a few lessons to be learnt here. First one is to take better photos. The one and only photo I have is by my iPhone and it isn’t great, but …
This was a milestone – my very first glass fuse firing. What’s a glass puddle? Well, I didn’t have the faintest when I first heard the term. It is basically a technique for creating jewellery cabochons. The idea is to layer up a number of pieces of art glass in complimenting colours, then full fuse …
