Glass Tips from Verrier

  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...

Credit: Missy Mac Glass on Folksy When making a drop vase in opalescent glass, the design needs to be on the outside.  This will require e...

A question arose: If you fuse a single 20cm diameter sheet of 3mm glass to full fuse, [with a decorative rim] what happens? … Would the...

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

Sometimes your clear base has bubbles, or as the trade calls it, seeds.   When capped with opalescent glass, in certain circumstances, t...

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...

A query about reducing a bubble appeared on the internet recently.  The bubble was from between the shelf and the single layer glass.  It...

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. ...

Inclusions and Bubbles The inclusion of material between two or more sheets of glass has the risk of creating bubbles.  The size of the...

"Flip and Fire" is a term was devised by Brian Blanthorn to describe a process to achieve crisp details in the final piece. The...

In addition to the "flip and fire" approach, there are a number of other factors that contribute to sharp, crisp lines in a piece...

cambridgecreativenetwork.co.uk Some times you want large bubbles, but when you don't, you need to know about the causes of, and way...

When you use a partial layer on two or three layers, you will get wavy lines as the thicker glass spreads more than the thinner. E.g., if ...

Occasionally there is a haze at the centre of the back of large pieces of fired glass. This seems to happen when a large piece of glass is ...

This term most often refers to placing a single piece of glass over the whole of the project. The decisions relate to whether to...

Glues have two major uses in fusing. One is to stick things together after being fused (cold fusing). The other is to hold things togeth...