Glass Tips from Verrier

Recently, there have been confirmations of multiple of layers of kiln wash on the shelf under pot melts, frit stretches, and flows.  Ten, an...

Is there a limit to how often a piece can be refused either to add on new pieces or to break up and reuse?   Bullseye test their glass t...

Both Kanthal and Nichrome are high temperature wires. Kanthal Kanthal is the trademark (owned by Sandvik ) for a range of iron-chro...

You can use high temperature wire for screen melts. This is variously described as Kanthal or nichrome wire.  It is the same kind of wi...

In creating screen melts, the steel or other support left in the project can leave such a degree of stress that the piece will began to f...

  Devitrification is defined as the crystallisation of the glass, making it a non-vitreous substance. Molecular level difference betwe...

T here are a number of commercial moulds, dams and rings to contain pot and screen melts. You can, of course, make your own. A simple ...

Many people take their fusing glasses beyond the tested parameters of the manufacturers in pot and screen melts and combing and casting op...

People experience breakages of their pot and screen melts that do not seem to have anything to do with annealing or glass sticking to the ...

There are several things that can be done to reduce the number and size of bubbles in casting. Fire higher - to 830ºC instead of 815...