Candy Corn Dish
- Details
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 August 2014 16:37
Products Used
Bisque- GM-112 Square Footed Bowl
- Black Opaque Glass, Orange Opaque Glass, Yellow Opaque Glass, White Opaque Glass, Clear Glass
- Glass Cutter, Glass Nippers, Grinding Machine, Glass Separator, Thin Fire Paper, Glass Cleaner of choice
Designer: Pauline WynDham
Instructions
- Cut two pieces of Black Opaque Glass to 7" x 7". Clean with glass cleaner of choice and place in kiln on Thin Fire paper.
- Cut 2, ⅜" x 12" strips of Yellow Opaque Glass, and 2 ⅜" x 12" strips of White Opaque glass and 2 ½" x 12" strips of Orange Opaque Glass.
- Line the glass on thin fire paper with the yellow on the bottom, orange in the middle and white on top in two areas. Place a 12" x 1 ¼" piece of clear glass over each set.
- Do a full fuse for all of the above pieces. We used this schedule to fuse these pieces. Please remember that any "generic" schedule is meant as a starting point. Your project, your kiln and your desired results are all variables that will likely be reasons to adjust this schedule. Remember to fuse and anneal for the thickest part of the glass.
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Segment
Rate
Temp
Hold
1
300
900
15
2
500
1100
0
3
100
1250
120
4
9999
1475
10
5
9999
960
60
6
100
800
0
7
200
700
0
8
400
100
0
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- Cut glass strips into triangles using glass nippers. Clean up the edges with a glass grinder. Wash with glass cleaner of choice.
- Place on the black square as if candy would be in a dish.
- Fire to a tack fuse. Please remember that any "generic" schedule is meant as a starting point. Your project, your kiln and your desired results are all variables that will likely be reasons to adjust this schedule. Remember to fuse and anneal for the thickest part of the glass. We used this schedule to do our tack fuse.
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Segment
Rate
Temp
Hold
1
50
900
15
2
500
1100
0
3
100
1250
30
4
9999
1350
10
5
9999
960
60
6
50
800
0
7
100
700
0
8
200
100
0
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- Clean glass with glass cleaner of choice and place on GM-112 SQ Dish Mold that has been prepared with separator of choice.
- Slum fire this piece into this mold. We used this firing schedule. Please remember that any "generic" schedule is meant as a starting point. Your project, your kiln and your desired results are all variables that will likely be reasons to adjust this schedule. Remember to fuse and anneal for the thickest part of the glass.
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Segment
Rate
Temp
Hold
1
50
900
15
2
100
1175
0
3
9999
960
120
4
50
800
0
5
100
700
0
6
200
100
0
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