Have you seen my article in the latest Glass Patterns Quarterly magazine? If so, you might also have seen that there is a video that will show you how to cut and carve a Kaiser Lee Board mold. And if you need any Kaiser Lee Board – let me tell you – we have some left in stock. 
It is a 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (30 x 30 x 2.5 cm) Kaiser Lee Board with a 3″ x 3″ (7.5 x 7.5 cm) hole in the center. I call it my kiln shelf with a hole.
The dish sits perfectly and I can use the wide rim for unusual designs. And yes, we fuse and slump in one firing.
This Ikebana Container was created by Helen at our BIG Arts Class on Sanibel. She used a piece of Wissmach Prisma 96 and created this impressive dish with it.
If you have this piece of KLB laying around and don’t know what to do with it, just cut a hole into it and start creating. Should you get tired of it – may be after 18 years – you can always cut another shape into the mold and use it again for 18 years.
And no, we did not cap the Wissmach Glass. It is just beautiful shiny after it is fired. I wish you could see the original.
Oh, and if you don’t have it around, we are still selling it, and so do all of our distributors.
If you are no sure yet, which class you would like to take, have a look at Marcia Bernadette’s class. Yes, even so I will not be teaching a full class, I will have a short demo and lecture in each of her classes.
Use this link
https://www.glasscraftexpo.com/class-list.php
and type Petra Kaiser in the search field and Marcias classes will open.
purchase all Kiln Glass Colors here at the Fuse It Studio in Cape Coral at very good prices. Please make your personal shopping appointment via email or phone. Online we sell frit, cullet and random glass pieces in the all in one boxes. The prices include shipping costs.
My kiln is 16″ high and 30″ x 42″ so it is not a problem to fit in a 23″ x 23″ square for the first firing and then set it on our tall Kaiser Lee Board Triangles to drape fire it. The triangles are only 11″ high but by placing them on a 2″ KLB square piece, I ended up with a 13″ igh drape mold. Even so the kiln is higher, my coils are hanging 1″ from the top and I like to be away with the glass at least 2″.
There is always a risk when I drape something, especially when I can’t observe it during the process stage. But I guess that’s what makes glass fusing so interesting. By the way, this was a piece one of my students made during a private workshop, so it better turns out – right?
This kiln formed bowl has hardly touched any mold materials. The Wissmach 96 glass worked perfectly during the 2 full fuse and 1 kiln form firing. Since I can not show this glass art well enough in a single image, I decided to make this short video with several images of the same art work. If you can’t see the video below, then this link will bring you to our YouTube Channel.
