01.
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.
02.
Fuse It All at the Same Time
The small plates are constructed similar to the large plates in Step 1 above, but are 3.25″ x 3.25″ and use the next section of the SizzleStix. Likewise the chopsticks holders are .75″ x 3.25″ and use the next bit of dichroic glass.
03.
Ready to Slump
I’m using the Square Slumper A mold (8635) and the Square Slumper B mold (8998) for the small plates.
04.
Slump the Last Pieces
Using the same molds as I did for the small plates, I slumped the chopsticks later when the kiln had room. I didn’t slump these with small and big plates since I’ve only got two of 8998 molds.
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.