Glass Tips from Verrier

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...

  The expansion characteristics of glass and ceramics components Many people advocate the elevation of moulds.   Mainly for air flow to eq...

  The cracks around the wire imbedded in the glass in the above image are not incompatibility cracks. They do not surround the square piec...

 " Can anyone please tell me why this mould always comes out wonky and devitrifies and pulls in on the edges. I used Primo Primer; my k...

  An "It has always worked for me before" schedule implies a single approach to slumping regardless of differing conditions.  Layu...

You can make your own billets from small pot melts.   But why should anyone go to the effort? Some reasons are: ·         You can make y...

A schedule was presented for a slumping problem of a 6mm/0.25” blank.   It consisted of three segments each of a rate of 277C/500F with shor...

A question about re-fusing:   I have just taken a large piece, with uneven layers out of the kiln, it went in … and fired for double thick...