Tech Tips — glass

Quick Tip You can fill textured glass with powder to make your own unique sheet glass! In this example, I used Black Granite Herringbone Ripple Irid (100-HR71) 3mm 100-HR71 sheet glass over 3mm Clear 1101 and Light Aventurine powder 1412. Sift powder over the glass, filling up the crevices. Then use a piece of stiff cardboard to run over the surface of the glass, exposing the high areas of the Irid. Place on top of clear and full fuse! In this example, Reed Glass 1101-43 was used with 3 different powder colors. The difference here is hairspray must be used on the glass before...

You know when you are scoring glass, especially during strip cutting, and tiny shards of glass are jumping out of your scores? These shards are really bad when cutting black glass. They make a big mess and you can get pesky painful shards in your hands. Here's an easy solution. Simply take a small amount of cutting oil and lightly spread it over your glass with a brush. Voilá! No shards! Buy GAI Cutting Oil

I don't know about all of you, but every once in a while I will fuse a project that just doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to, and there it sits forever on my "let's wait and see what I want to do with it this" shelf...

Time to make frit balls! Here's how to do it, including a firing schedule. Read on for more...