Glass Tips from Verrier

“I've cut wine bottles horizontally and want to keep the boat shape but round the cut edges. [Will a tack fuse firing]   do what I am ...

Credit: The Crucible.com It is frequent to have castings from frit with spikes, needles, or prickles around the edges.   Causes These sp...

  One of the difficulties of coldworking is when to change grits. Checking the completeness of one grit grinding visually is difficult. It...

Sometimes the edge of a drop vase is chipped during the polishing process, or more frequently, during use. What to do?  Grind the edges do...

There is a suggestion that the glass being ground should be passed along the in the direction opposing the spin of the grinding bit. T...

Often fused glass has prickles or needle points around the edges and especially at corners after firing. This illustration is from ...

It is widely recognised that the usual results of kiln forming are one textured side and a smooth upper side. The common methods of having ...

No jokes please! Often the moulds we use do not have a suitably flat bottom to them, making the resulting item wobble when set on a fl...

Pin holes in screen and pot melts are the result of very small bubbles rising to the surface.   These bubbles are sometimes within the...

Polishing of glass can be done in the flame, in the kiln, by acids or by grinding with successively fine abrasives depending on the nature o...

Almost all glass can be slumped as a single layer, whether produced for kiln working or not.  A few are extra sensitive at even slumping ...

Cleaning glass with acids causes corrosion of the surface of the glass. So many people mention using vinegar to help clean the ground ed...

The first element in preventing devitrification is cleaning.  Making sure all the edges of the glass are clean will help.  OK, you have cle...

Frequently people who are grinding the edges of bowls, aperture drops and other vessels that need to have a smooth rim find that they are...

There are a number of standard options for the worked shape of edges.   The simplest is to have a seamed edge, where just enough sanding is...

Often even in shallow rectangular moulds the sides pull in during the slump.   To know what things to try to correct this effect, you need ...

I fired a one-layer piece of glass and it shrank. What did I do wrong? Cause This result relates to the thickness that glass, under ...