Tink and other glass buyers - Did you see this?

OMG *swoon* Yikes! Oh MAN! Geeeeeez! Gimme! Yessssssssssssssssssssss!

Whew

Thanks :-)

(whimper)I don't even DO glass yet and I want this.... Sarajane

Sarajane's Polymer Clay Gallery

I took a fusing class over the weekend. Oh man...and I could do so many neat things with just a little 6x6 Paragon kiln. Sigh...

Oh..and I'll post pics tomorrow as I'll be picking up my stuff this afternoon.

WOW. wow. I have a book on fusing........

Thanks for the heads-up!

I have no idea - but I do know you can make beads with it. You can't really mix the colors (unless you know the COE's). We made some beads with stained glass scarps in my glass bead class.

Can you fuse stained glass scraps??? I have a box of 50 lbs of scraps that I packratted... dunno what to do with it...

I just learned about this in my class..

You can fuse/slump stained glass but only one color. For example, if you have a large sheet of glass you can fuse pieces of it to itself, but if you mix sheets, it probably won't work because unless you absolutly know the COE (coefficient of expansion) of the stained glass, chances are they are not compatible.

There is special fusing stained glass available in addition to fusing glass. You can also get fusing frit, stringer and rods, too.

Isn't slumping fun. I took a day of fused glass last Spring, and hope to do it again. I feel like I just barely got my feet wet.

Tina

This is true and not true. Many stained glass colors are fairly close in COE's because soda-lime glass just works out that way. The position of "you can only use certain sheet glass" is mostly perpetuated by the makers of the aforementioned glass. That having been said, it is always a good idea to run some tests before using unknown glasses in combination. For example, GNA and FNA are usually compatible with each other, but not with anything else. And many of the colors by Spectrum that are not part of their System 96 line get ugly in the kiln. It is a simple matter to make a stress tester out of polarized sunglasses and a flashlight. 1. Stand the flashlight on end so the light points up. 2. Put one of the lenses from the glasses on it and turn the light on. 3. Take the other lenses and rotate it until the light doesn't come through. 4. Place the test piece of fused glass between the lenses. If there is stress in the glass, it will appear as ghostly haloes where the glasses come together. No haloes, the glass is compatible.

Of course, if you don't want to experiment, you can go with the 90 COE standard or the 96 COE. But sometimes the fun is in seeing what you can get away with. Obviously, don't go to the trouble of cutting a laying up a complex piece without knowing if it will hold together.

lawsamercy, the stuff I learn here is so fascinating! Sarajane

Sarajane's Polymer Clay Gallery

That's great info - thanks!