Glass Tips from Verrier

Description A frit stretch in the flattening developed two internal cracks at 4:00 and 8:00 going through colours (but not felt on top ...

Why do schedules vary so widely? I frequently observe strange annealing schedules promoted on the internet. These include: extremely l...

Credit: The Pottery Wheel There will be differences when firing on the floor of a kiln - the two important ones are working temperature and ...

Why is the stress not relieved after the strain point when slumping? The answer relates to whether it is on the cool or on the heat up. Co...

  Annealing Includes Cooling Often people recommend a long anneal soak for potentially difficult pieces followed by an arbitrary 55C/100F c...

Descripti o n of the Project A white 3mm base with 3mm and 6mm decorations made up of mosaic pieces from previously fused glass (all the sa...

There are writings from a teacher attempting to make glass fusing simple.   Unfortunately, glass physics and chemistry are very complicate...

An stress test strip and annealing witness between polarised filters. If an unbroken fired piece shows stress that is known not to be from ...

  Shotgun annealing is chosen when the annealing temperature is unknown or uncertain. The name comes from the characteristic spread of the ...