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Why Color Test Palettes are Important

Published: Thu, 04/28/16

Featured Glass Tip About The Importance of Color Palettes (or, test strips are your friend!) Recently, I received a request for a proposal for a…

Fusing with Natural Mica

Published: Fri, 04/22/16

Featured Glass Tip About Fusing with Natural (sheet) Mica I've been playing with different kinds of natural mica lately and doing tests to figure out…

Perfectly Flat Fused Bottles

Published: Fri, 04/15/16

Featured Glass Tip About Perfectly Flat Fused Bottles Typically when I fuse a bottle flat, it doesn't go completely flat, it looks more like this: If…

Frit Sizes for Glass Printing

Published: Fri, 04/08/16

Featured Glass Tip About Frit Sizes for Glass Printing Last week we talked about making custom stamps for glass printing. One question that a lot of…

Making Stamps for Glass Printing

Published: Fri, 03/25/16

Featured Glass Tip About Making Stamps for Glass Printing One of my favorite ways to add pattern and color to float glass is using stamps and frit. I…

Glass Toggle Clasp for Jewelry

Published: Fri, 03/18/16

Featured Glass Tip About Glass Toggle Clasp for Jewelry My new favorite way to finish off necklaces is with an all glass toggle clasp. This works…

Low Tech Bottle Cutter

Published: Fri, 03/11/16

Featured Glass Tip About Low Tech Bottle Cutter My favorite way to cut bottles is with a tile saw, hands down. But, sometimes the saw isn't feasible,…

Beveling Cut Bottles

Published: Fri, 03/04/16

Featured Glass Tip About Beveling Cut Bottles There are quite a few tutorials about using cut wine bottles to make drinking glasses, vases, planters,…

Using Polishing Grit with Glass

Published: Thu, 02/25/16

Featured Glass Tip ABOUT Using Polishing Grit with Glass Although I'm not a big fan of cold working by hand, I always keep some rock polishing grit…

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