Glass Tips from Verrier

Credit: Glass Art by Margot Small pieces, confetti and stringers which are glued  often move out of place during fir ings . Glue, whethe...

A while ago Bob Leatherbarrow gave a presentation to Lunch With A Glass Artist (LWAGA) on slumping schedules. You can follow a recording of...

  Photo Credit: Rachel Meadows-Ibrahim The main causes of the large thin bubble is most probably  too high a temperature combined with a lon...

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 range of problems appear in slumping.  These include bubbles, splits, puddling and more. Several causes are possible.  This blog looks at ...

Glass on rectangular moulds often does not maintain a straight edge.   It pulls in and tends toward the “dog boning” of fused single lay...

  [We’re] Having a few challenges with a stainless-steel S-curve mould (15cm x 10cm [prepared with boron nitride]. … When we slump a piece o...

An enquiry on incomplete definition in the glass from texture moulds: I have this texture mould, but I’m not getting much definition. I’m us...

"I could use some help here please. I’ve tried this sun mould 3x and as you can see all 3x I get a hole.  If you could tell me what...