Glass Tips from Verrier

  Draping over a narrow or small supporting ridge with large areas of glass is difficult. One solution might be just to invert the whole pie...

  This is a description of the analysis process to determine the possible causes of a split during a slump.       Credit: Maureen Nolan Ob...

What is it? When does it happen? Why does it happen? These are frequent questions. Dr. Jane Cook states that devitrification is not a categ...

credit: Tia Murphy There are advocates for making tiles as references for future work.    They show the profiles achieved at different tempe...

Thick slabs often involve numerous firings of increasingly thick work.   I am using an existing example, with their permission, of the first...

Photo credit: Bullseye Glass Co. It is often advocated that there should be a soak at the strain point to even out the temperature throughou...

Once you have an initial idea of the source of the problem, think about it.   Test it against the evidence.   Is there enough evidence to ma...

I am amazed by the effort put into ramp up rates, bubble squeezes, and top temperatures in comparison to annealing.   The emphasis on social...

This post is about adapting the Bullseye chart Annealing  Thick Slabs to write a schedule for any soda lime glass as used in kilnforming. I ...