Happy Holidays Project
Here is a project I showed several years ago, but like my new students pointed out to me today, “it is new to us”. So it might be new to you too. Have a wonderful and creative holiday season.
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Small Kaiser Lee Board Drape Molds
It is always nice to be challenged by students. This time J. wanted to make some small vessels for succulents and other purposes. And since I have all these little pieces of Kaiser Lee Board laying around, we just took two and tried. The glass does not have to be cut precise. But it should be at least 1.5″ (4 cm) bigger all the way around your mold. If not, you still have a nice container, but it would not hold any liquids.
A single layer of glass is sufficient for this project. I chose Wissmach Glass 96-11 Honey Luminescent. Since it is a reverse project, the luminescent coating will show up on the top side once it is fired. To protect the luminescent during firing and also to give a little buffer for better release of the mold, I use a piece of fire paper the exact size as the glass. Then I placed the small Kaiser Lee Board mold pieces on a carved Kaiser Lee Board shelf for additional interest and fired them.
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Firing Glass Dots or Pebbles
In my book Introduction to Glass Fusing I introduces glass dots and how to make them in different sizes. One of the problems with glass dots or pebbles is the kiln wash or kiln paper resedue. But with lower firing temperatures and longer hold times they come out fairly clean. Enjoy the video!
Firing Red Glass
Somewhere back in my brain I remember that glass can change in successive firings. Especially the red, orange and yellow. Since I usually full fuse at around 1410° F (765° C) and often full fuse and slump in one firing, I did not encounter those issues.
But as Wissmach’s kiln glass consultant I have spoken to people with various fusing questions. In most cases we were able to solve the issues by changing their firing schedule. Therefor I sat down and wrote a Firing E-Book.
Recently I did get some 90 COE glass (not Wissmach) to test. So at first I fired it at 1410° F (765° C) and placed it between the polarized film on our Fuse It Test Card. The results were very good. No stress at all. The transparent dark red was still transparent and did not show any stress. The opaque orange of course was still opaque and also did not show any stress and the yellow transparent was equally perfect.
In a second test I took the same test glass piece and fired it again at a higher temperature; 1460° F (794° C). The orange and the yellow stayed the same. No stress and no change of transparency. But we could see a lot of change in the dark red. It turned opaque and is now showing a lot of stress
Find the Free How To Ust it video here.
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