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Load in the Kiln
I didn’t take any photos of the sushi plates under construction. I had started with Bullseye Glass’s Opaline Sushi Set project but didn’t want square sushi plates. Nor did I want to use opaline glass. Instead I wanted to use a dichroic glass strip (SizzleStix).
On the bottom is a 6″x8″ piece of Black Opalescent 3mm (000100-0030-F), capped with a 6″x8″ piece of Tekta. At the one third mark from left to right (the rule of thirds) is a 6″ piece of SizzleStix.
I’m making two sushi sets (a set is a plate, a small plate, and a chopsticks holder) so I’ve used two SizzleStix and taken the same color section from each–the dark blue to light blue gradient.
Results
Final Result
I liked the bullnose edges of these pieces and didn’t coldwork them. It helped that I was picky with cutting the dichroic SizzleStix exactly to length.
FUSING SCHEDULE (RUN TIME 13:31)*
SEGMENT | RATE (deg F / hour) | TEMPERATURE (F) | HOLD (hours:minutes) |
1 | 400 | 1225 | :45 |
2 | 600 | 1490 | :10 |
3 | AFAP | 900 | 1:00 |
4 | 100 | 700 | OFF |
SLUMPING SCHEDULE (RUN TIME 7:28)*
SEGMENT | RATE (deg F / hour) | TEMPERATURE (F) | HOLD (hours:minutes) |
1 | 300 | 1225 | :05 |
2 | AFAP | 900 | 1:00 |
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.