Glass Tips from Verrier

Will stress still show with polarised filters on cracked and broken glass? It's not a straightforward answer. I was looking at some ...

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

At a time when we are all going to be trying a variety of glass of unknown compositions to reduce costs of kiln working, the knowledge of h...

  The course from which this information is taken is based on float glass.   This is a soda lime glass just as fusing glass is.   The genera...

Polarised light filters are used to detect stress in a non-destructive testing method in kilnforming.   The use of the filters is described ...

People frequently report success in combining incompatible glass pieces with a larger, different base. Questions arise. Have the r...

Using polarized light filters to show stress works on the principle that stressed glass  rotates the polarisation direction of the  light a...

These procedures are based on the observation that glasses compatible with the base glass are compatible with each other. This means that yo...

Sometimes you may want to use a glass in kiln forming when its characteristics are not known, such as for bottle slumping. It is possible to...