Glass April 10 melt/cabs

This is s slump. Simply a low temp flattening of curved glass without further melting the colors together.
If these multi colored shards were melted it would mix the wide range of colors to ugly brown.
A bit risky as it is easy to overheat and make a bunch of ugly brown shards.

The glass was curved because it came from one of these 10 inch globes. Call it a round slab.
I paid good money to have the blower make these hoping I could sell the finished shards as pendants.
Next step will be to flat lap flat shards to cab shapes and then tumble polish.
Long day at the flat lap. Getting better at making shapes. The glass is soft and shapes quickly.
Shards are over sized for flexibility in shape choice. Quite a river of wet glass dust flowing out of lap.
This batch should loose a quarter pound out of 4 pounds of shards in grind dust using 100 grit lap wheel.

globe at upper left was used



ready to go to 1250F "flattening temp" along with some test pieces. bottom shelf



top shelf



after flattening with no color dilution thank goodness




Wife tackled other kiln and made up some singles. Remelted glass from the glass blower and will not flame polish so it must be tumble polished.

Melt for tomorrow, large sculpture that was broken by accident from local glass blower.
glass is loaded with stringers(threads of glass woven in).

3 pounds and will be spread out to make about a 12 X 12 inch melt slab say 1/4" thick. "random rutilations"

Those look great jamesp and I have no doubt they will sell

James how much more would it cost to have him spin it out flat?.................................MrP

I had a paper tablet loaded with pages of girly pages that was used to take jewelry photos on in past.
I am still having trouble transferring photos from pad to computer. Bugs, bugs, bugs.
then re learn drilling holes.
then learn pinch bail.
All in an hour last night.
so just opening this can lol.

Thanks for the advise Alison. agreed, photos sterile.
I will also look at Etsy photos and copy better sellers backgrounds.

I don't post much of my production, you might be surprised at some of the pieces.
I have melted/slumped over 100 vases and plates from all over the world.
The variety is a bit overwhelming. But learning about more methods faster than we can produce them.
The vases and the purchased color glass does add up in costs though.
Approach is a business too so spending justified.
Lots of junk produced in the beginning, call it educational costs.
Slowing down now and knowing what not to do is key.
Failure is frowned upon in most business, I always thought it is key to creation of process.
Between the tumbling and the melting this is a very process oriented activity.
It is absolutely complicated and challenging.

That answers that! Thanks.............................MrP

Delicate drilling is my #1 problem Alsion.
Asking Billy in detail. May need a Dremel drill press.

It is no problem Michael as the slump temp flattens them delightfully.
This blower uses virgin glass. Much clearer and fuse able than recycle.
I have been wrestling with glass that has much more extreme curves in it.
I started cheap bids on some brands of vases that have compatible glass.
One fine vase maker in China is imported to Atlanta heavily and it has the absolute finest glass I have fused thus far, like melting butter.
A lot of the Italian glass fits my heating/slumping schedules.

I have also began rolling the glass in rotary steps right up to AO 1000 to reduce the vibe times.
Rotary holds much bigger batches and any reduction in vibe time(bottleneck) helps a bunch.
However the rotary is risky as it can bruise glass in a second so great care must be taken.