Glass Tips from Verrier

If your scoring and breaking of your glass is not going well, you need to diagnose the reasons.  There are always a lot of suggestions th...

This information has been taken from various sources. Some manufacturers may change the composition of their glasses or the published infor...

The statement that a sheet of glass can be fused to itself is true in certain circumstances.   It applies to transparent and some streaky ...

A statement was made on a Facebook group that transparent glass absorbs more heat than opalescent glass. And it releases more heat during co...

“I have been advised in the past, that blue fires quicker. I was told this by a Master glass maker.” Viscosity has some relation to colo...

It is worth thinking about how fast you fire pieces, especially where your current working temperature and rates of advance are giving d...

The main conditions in which kiln wash sticks to glass are: 1. Firing at too high a temperature. The higher the temperature, the more like...

I’ve been asked the question “ is there is differential in specific gravity as related to COE or colorant used in the glass (white opal v...