Glass Tips from Verrier

Information on stained glass, fusing, kilnforming and glass working

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Notes on Kiln wash

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  Composition Kiln wash generally is made up of a mix   of aluminium hydrate and kaolin, although some contain vegetable extracts instead o...
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Glass Bonding

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 This post may help with choosing high performance fastenings to glass objects.  Glass bonding with silane and polymer coatings . Although g...
Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Firing silicone mastic

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Several people have asked over time about the consequences of firing glass with some silicone mastic (or caulking) still attached to the gla...
Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Glass Frit Seals for Microelectronics

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 G lass frit sealing technology provides a superior solution for achieving reliable hermetic seals in precise applications like micro elect...
Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Draping over steep moulds

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  Draping over a narrow or small supporting ridge with large areas of glass is difficult. One solution might be just to invert the whole pie...
Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Radiation Shields

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 Glass has a use as a radiation shield in medicine, industry, and aerospace. Image credit: Mo-Sci,Llc
Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Using Ceramic to Drape

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Characteristics Before choosing a ceramic shape to use in draping of glass, you need to consider the characteristics of the two material...
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Heat Shielding Glass

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Glass coatings have exhibited remarkable bonding capabilities with various metals and alloys in aerospace applications to shield materials ...
Wednesday, 16 April 2025

Testing for Stress

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Testing for stress is one of the most important elements in kilnforming.  It may not look like there is stress when there is considerable am...
Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Bone Grafts with Glass

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  The use of glass in bone grafts . image credit: Mo-Sci, Llc  
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Bioactive glass

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 A description of bioactive glass from Mo-Sci,Llc Image credit: Mo=Sci, Llc
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Bubbles on Single Layer Fusing

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“I'm making 3mm French Vanilla sconce covers; … ·         [initially they were] fine, but now 1.5" bubbles form during the full f...
Friday, 14 March 2025

Draping over steep moulds

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  Draping over a narrow or small supporting ridge with large areas of glass is difficult. One solution might be just to invert the whole pie...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Dog Boning in Slumps

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I have done a few experiments on rectangular moulds with 3mm and 6mm thickness. I could not eliminate dog boning with larger rims, slower ra...
Wednesday, 5 March 2025

Pressing glass

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I have been looking for a different way than flows or melts to mix colours and thought glass pressing might be a promising way to achieve ...
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