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01.

Three Layers

I didn’t take a photo of this fun plate under construction. I drew a circle on the Thinfire paper and started laying down glass. The bottom layer, which isn’t visible here, is just like the top layer: pieces of clear Tekta glass. The middle layer is made up of similarly sized but different shades of green glass. The pieces in the second and third layers are laid down to bridge across the gaps between the pieces of glass in the layer below them, thereby filling in any holes.

Plate in kiln
02.

Close-ups

Although I didn’t take a photo of the plate under construction, I did photograph the test piece I did before I committed to the entire plate. These are before and after fusing.

Test Sample
Test Sample
03.

Make It A Circle

Because I didn’t dam the plate during fusing, it spread when it melted. I scored a circle with a circle cutter and then used the Glastar grinder to remove all the glass up to the score mark.

Plate on grinder
04.

More Coldworking

The grinder left pretty deep scratches at the edge, so I also used diamond pads in four different grits to smooth away the scratches.

Plate with diamond pads
05.

Close-up of Edge

After all the grinding and smoothing, the edge had a nice matte finish.

Edge close up
06.

Read to Slump

I slumped the plate on Classic slumping mold (8747).

Ready to slump
07.

After Slumping

The matte edges fire polished to a nice gleam in the finished piece.

Slumped
Results

Final Result

I’m particularly fond of the way light goes through the entire piece. The soft and blended pieces of green are endlessly fascinating to me. I could look at this plate for a long time.

Finished piece
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FULL FUSING SCHEDULE (RUN TIME 6:39)*

SEGMENT RATE (deg F / hour) TEMPERATURE (F) HOLD (hours:minutes)
1 500 1225 :30
2 AFAP 1500 :30
3 AFAP 950 1:00
4 200 725 OFF

SLUMP FUSING SCHEDULE (RUN TIME 11:02)*

SEGMENT RATE (deg F / hour) TEMPERATURE (F) HOLD (hours:minutes)
1 200 1250 :30
2 AFAP 900 2:00
3 100 700 OFF

* The firing schedules may be designed for other projects that were fired with this one. Everything was fired in a Paragon GL-22AD.