I filled this mold with fine frit green mixed with tangerine etc and am currently firing it with the following schedule. Wasnt sure exactly how to use the mold. Is it a slumping mold? Or can I put scraps of glass in it and fuse? Can I do both? If I use it as a slump mold how do I take advantage of the two points of the leaf on the left and right of the picture? Am I suppose to cut the glass to fit over that. Cutting the glass to reflect the two points would be hard? So is this a casting mold? If so then it requires a lot of frit and I was unsure of that. But I used it as a casting mold and filled it with fine frit of a mixture of colors and fired it as follows:300dph..................................................1375 degrees................................10 min
Full..........................................................900 degrees.................................1 hour
100 dph....................................................700 degrees.................................off
Let's see how that works. I understand that firing it low is best because you can always fire it again. When firing I have also cleaned out my snowflake mold and will spray that with another layer of MR97 and fill it to fire tomorrow.
That came out okay, two bubbles on the bottom side that set on the mold, and a few rough spot along the edges which maybe could have been taken care of or will be taken care of by fire polishing. I will try it again but perhaps with glass to slump over.
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