Glass Tips from Verrier

Thick slabs often involve numerous firings of increasingly thick work.   I am using an existing example, with their permission, of the first...

"Can a tack fuse schedule for fusing glass can be used to slump bottles?" It may be that this person does not have the confidenc...

I am amazed by the effort put into ramp up rates, bubble squeezes, and top temperatures in comparison to annealing.   The emphasis on social...

This post is about adapting the Bullseye chart Annealing  Thick Slabs to write a schedule for any soda lime glass as used in kilnforming. I ...

  The course from which this information is taken is based on float glass.   This is a soda lime glass just as fusing glass is.   The genera...

There is a lot written about the annealing temperature of a glass being at a single exact temperature. This is another fundamental misunde...

NOTE: completely revised 31 December 2021 After  Bullseye published annealing tables for thick slabs, s ome people feel they need to use th...

A critical range is the temperature around the annealing point. The upper and lower limits of this range are known as the softening and str...

Some time ago people on a Facebook group were asked to give their top tips for kiln forming.   Looking through them showed a lot of detailed...