Saturday, May 10, 2014

Friday, May 2, 2014

Contour Fuse firing schedule

This worked nicely for a 6mm 2 layers of clear glass with premade fused flowers on top along with stringers and chunky mixed color frit along with fine grit.  The schedule I used is as follows:

300 dph...............................................1150 degrees................................hold 20 mins
Full......................................................1425 degrees................................hold 12 mins
Full........................................................900 degrees................................hold 1 hour
150 dph.................................................800 degrees.................................hold 2 mins
Off

Three of the four corners fused fully.  One of the corns appears uneven, like the top layer was a little short of the bottom and it did not quite meet it.  But not bad all in all.  I had originally intended to slump it but now I think it would be better to keep it as a tile. 

Contour is between tack fusing and full fusing, a nice mixture not a precisely defined, bumpy surface but not flat and loosing all its surface texture.