500 dph.............................300 degrees....................................hold 5 mins
800 dph.............................1465 degrees..................................hold 5 mins
Full.......................................900 degrees.................................hold 30 mins
175 dph.................................800 degrees.................................hold 10 mins
Right now the most important thing is to see which looks better the tack fused or the full fused or whether I should have both. I also have come up with an idea to use the 1/4 inch strips and place the 1" colored squares on them to decorate them in a star. snowflake like pattern So right now I am full fusing this one and we shall see.
The tack fuse schedule that I used is as follows:
400 dph..................................1000 degrees........................hold 10 mins
600 dph...................................1360 degrees.......................hold 10 mins
Full ...........................................900 degrees.......................hold 30 mins
100 dph.....................................700 degrees........................off
So it is better to pick a firing schedule some where in between tack and full fuse
This tack fuse schedule hardly does anything. The sides do not pucker but the different pieces do stick to each other. I think if I determine that I still like the tack fuse best then I should make it fire higher and longer to get it to have some additional effects.
The full fuse looked awful. Perhaps because of the kind of glass that I used or even the placement of the glass but tack fused it looks better. this time I had two projects prepared, one a snowflake that needs full fusing and the other the star that I believe looks better tack fused. Before thinking I put both of them in there together and did not want to remove one, so decided to use a processing temperature that might be a good compromise between the two. So I am firing it to 1410 and holding only 5 minutes. Lets see if that lower temperature does not harm the full fusing of the snowflake and does not affect the good look of the tack fused star. I finally tried a little more heat and I liked the effect there. In this project I am alligning the points of the squares to the post to which they are attached instead of aligning them up and down and am firing them with the following schedule. I used this previously and I like how it came out but in this trial I am going to use the 1420 degrees as the processing temperature but I am only going to hold it for 5 minutes. It will go as follows:
400 dph....................1000 degrees.....................................hold 10 mins
600 dph.....................1420 degrees....................................hold 5 mins
Full.............................900 degrees.....................................hold 30 mins
100 dph.......................700 degrees..........................................off
so that, above, is the best firing schedu
