by Jodi | Float (Window) glass
Last year at our Glass Art Guild of Utah meeting, we made glass name tags to wear at group shows so patrons can identify us. It’s always good to know who the artist is! Materials Thin window glass or framing glass Float Fire 82 CoE (available from...
by Jodi | Float (Window) glass, Inclusions and Additions
Using plaster elements in fused glass is an easy way to add variety to your basic stock of molds and shapes. The little plaster elements are made using a mold, and a mixture of pottery plaster and silica flour in a 1:1 ratio. However, you can also achieve excellent...
by Jodi | Bottle Glass, Tools
In the last post we made a triangle bead mold for making fused glass beads. Today, we are going to walk through how to use the mold. Step 1 – Line with Thin-Fire I cut my thin fire about 1/4″ (.6 cm) higher than the walls of my mold to compensate for...
by Jodi | Bottle Glass, Tools
There are lots of ways to cut bottles, I’ve tried all of them that I can find and think of, my favorite is still the tile saw. There are pro’s and con’s to using a tile saw, it’s a tool that is great for somethings, not so much for others....
