Glass Tips from Verrier

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

"Why does devitrification appear on slumped pieces?" A brief explanation   Scientific research in developing a glass matrix to...

  “I have full fused a single piece of glass with a few small pieces on top.  I thought it would shrink some as I had been told, but it main...

The visual evidence relating to this enquiry is a sharp-edged break through the middle of the slumped piece. The two parts have slumped se...

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

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...

"Can a tack fuse schedule for fusing glass can be used to slump bottles?" It may be that this person does not have the confidenc...

  A question about why a tack fused 6mm/0.25” piece of combined dense white and black in a slump firing broke has been raised.  Other pieces...

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...

Does the size of the rim affect the amount of dog boning when slumping rectangular items? This question was prompted by previous testing o...