Monday, February 10, 2014

BEST Basic Fuse Firing for my kiln




Layering stacks of scrap glass to get fused pieces to cut as multi color leaves or decorations for other pieces.  I fused this with Bullseye Basic Fuse Firing schedule with slight alteration.  Instead of 1490 degree processing temperature, i went to 1475 degrees instead.  All else stayed the same.

400 dph........................................1225 degrees..................................hold 30 min
600 dph........................................1475 degrees..................................hold 10 min
FULL..............................................900 degrees..................................hold 1 hour
100 dph..........................................700 degrees...................................hold 0 min
FULL..............................................70 degrees.....................................OFF

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Snowflake wave dish with recess for candle, or candy or keys, whatever

I am doing another wave mold with recess.  Already did a white and green one, which was very pretty, and had a few errors but nothing too bad.  I forgot to take a picture of it,  It is now at my gym, hoping that someone will buy it.  And I am doing another, this one has a 3mm blue base, very pretty color, topped with a 2mm clear glass that was cut 1/8th of an inch bigger than the base, with the aim that the top would overlap and include the bottom, making a more finished piece.  I ground the pointy corners first.  After it comes out of the kiln, I will tack fuse some snowflakes on it and then slump it into the mold.  For the panel, I used the following firing schedule:

300dph.............................................1250degrees.....................................hold 30 min
600dph..............................................1420degrees....................................hold 10 min
Full....................................................900degrees......................................hold 1 hour
100dph...............................................300 degrees.....................................OFF

I am fusing only 5mm piece so the corners should somewhat round even though the temperature is not that high.  This time I will remember a picture.  

Well that came out well, except that it pulled all the kiln wash off of the shelf and I had to soad it in vinegar and water and then scrub it to remove the residue.  I placed a sheet of thin fire paper down and put the panel on which I placed to snowflakes.  I also added two small projects that I did, wishing to tack fuse those with the following schedule.

300dph.......................................1225 degrees...............................hold 30 min
400dph.......................................1350 degrees...............................hold 10 min
Full...............................................900 degrees...............................hold 1 hour
100dph.........................................600 degrees...............................OFF

This is a higher temperature than the last tack fusing of snowflakes.  I wanted less definition.




The above piece was slumped at the following temperature and I think that this schedule is the BEST for this mold:

300dph.......................1220degrees................................hold 40 min
FULL............................900degrees................................hold 1 hour
100dph..........................600degrees...............................OFF