Glass Tips from Verrier

Credit: Techniglass.com A new grinder bit chips the glass excessively, especially with   a coarse grit. It can also be the result of a bar...

Credit: JMbestglass.cn Using core drill bits needs a drill press. It keeps the drill bit steady and avoids breaking the core which plugs the...

credit: Scarva   Material Rigidisers are colloidal solutions of silica or quartz with a carrier of some form.   It is also available as a ...

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...

Photo credit: Bullseye Glass Co. It is often advocated that there should be a soak at the strain point to even out the temperature throughou...

Photo credit: Kiln Frog Sometimes it is difficult to replace a kiln shelf back into the kiln  with work on it .   This is normally because t...

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

“I've cut wine bottles horizontally and want to keep the boat shape but round the cut edges. [Will a tack fuse firing]   do what I am ...

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

Description of the piece The enquirer wants to cover some blemishes on the flat blank with clear powder and also tack fuse some addition...

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