Results of first firing ...
Apr. 4th, 2010 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janecameronBefore I turned it on .................................... and when I opened it up again this morning ...
What was left over in the kiln ...
All polished up and ready to hang!
* I'm really happy with it! Have written loads of notes so I know (hopefully) what to do better next time.
* This is the first time I've used coloured glass
* I'm not particularly keen on the iridescent glass, but that's OK as it was a free sample.
* The little squares with metal inside (5cm sq, 2mm+2mm glass from a broken picture!) fused PERFECTLY! I'm so happy!
* Have discovered that on 2mm glass, the "score, then turn over and press with end of rubber pliers" is better than "score and groze"
* The iridescent glass held its shape much better (which I didn't want!)
* The lavender one is fantastic!
* The plain blue one (front right) was only 2mm not 3mm so it overfired a bit and absorbed some of the thinfire paper - I deliberately put it in so I would find out which thickness of glass the firing cycle worked best for. It also shrank round the fibre paper I was using to make the hole, so I had to wash that out with a cocktail stick. There were only a few little spikes on the flowers, and none at all on the metal squares!
However, nothing broke and nothing stuck to the shelf, so for a first firing I consider this a rousing success!
I will be hanging these up as a window ornament.
What was left over in the kiln ...
All polished up and ready to hang!
* I'm really happy with it! Have written loads of notes so I know (hopefully) what to do better next time.
* This is the first time I've used coloured glass
* I'm not particularly keen on the iridescent glass, but that's OK as it was a free sample.
* The little squares with metal inside (5cm sq, 2mm+2mm glass from a broken picture!) fused PERFECTLY! I'm so happy!
* Have discovered that on 2mm glass, the "score, then turn over and press with end of rubber pliers" is better than "score and groze"
* The iridescent glass held its shape much better (which I didn't want!)
* The lavender one is fantastic!
* The plain blue one (front right) was only 2mm not 3mm so it overfired a bit and absorbed some of the thinfire paper - I deliberately put it in so I would find out which thickness of glass the firing cycle worked best for. It also shrank round the fibre paper I was using to make the hole, so I had to wash that out with a cocktail stick. There were only a few little spikes on the flowers, and none at all on the metal squares!
However, nothing broke and nothing stuck to the shelf, so for a first firing I consider this a rousing success!
I will be hanging these up as a window ornament.
