Oh well, I'm just practicing anyway. I tried another slumping schedule, maybe this one will work. I was going to post pictures and notes about my last slump, but like I said I didn't.
The major note about my last slump is that I only took it up to 1175 degrees and this new one has me taking it to 1475. Big difference.
No really I'm learning stuff.
The baby food bottle has slumped too far, it is going to come out flat, and that isn't what I'm looking for. I lesson for this one, don't slump the items you want flat with the items you want a lip on.
Actually I didn't want the bottle completely flat either, but, that is how it turned out.
The thing is I don't know enough about glass work yet to know if I should lower the temp or shorten the soak time.
I'm going to experiment tomorrow with a shorter soak time. I'm going to use baby food bottles and try to do a better job cutting it.
The fuse time I used this time was from Big Ceramic Store. They have a lot of useful info. I still have to go over everything they posted.
Segment | Rate | degrees F | Hold | |
1 | 500 | 500 | 12 min | |
2 | 500 | 750 | 12 min | |
3 | 600 | 1100 | 10 min | |
4 | 200 | 1300 | 20 min | |
5 | 250 | 1475 | 10 min | |
6 | 9999 | 1100 | 1 hr | |
7 | 500 | 970 | 30 min | |
8 | 120 | 750 | 20 | |
Let kiln cool naturally. It is a longer fuse schedule then I have been doing, so we'll see. I might cut the hold times in half. I don't know. |
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