Glass Tips from Verrier

  This post is about hand polishing edges, although the most common method seems to be a   fire polish .   But the other, less considered, m...

“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 ...

  I had a piece crack due to an annealing oops. I put powder on it and put it back in at a higher temp with a much longer anneal time. It lo...

Image credit: Obsession Glass Studio   Fire polishing castings is relatively difficult.   Even though people may suggest temperatures for th...

“Double the annealing soak time for each firing” and “Slow the rate of advance each time you fire” are common responses as a diagnosis when ...

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

Pot melting occurs at temperatures above that for which kiln washes are designed. This means the kiln wash most often sticks to the back of ...

The analysis of breaks in fire polishing can be difficult.   The temperature and heat work are minimal, so the edges can look sharp, w...

"Freeze and fuse" is a term devised to describe a technique to obtain complex edge shapes and some bas relief. The basic me...

Can anyone describe what a contour fuse is? No one can satisfactorily describe, to a high level of acceptance, what a contour fuse is. F...

I had a recent request for help from an old friend who has taken up kiln formed glass. The problem is common enough, that (with her permis...

Are tack fuse and fire polish the same thing? Maybe They both occur in the same temperature same range, depending on the degree of ...

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...

Sometimes a large shallow bubble appears from under the glass.  If it has not thinned there are some things you can do.  First – do n...

We all at times take short cuts or economies which lead to less than desirable outcomes.  One of these is to piece together fibre paper. ...