Pelly123@aol.com on thu 18 apr 96
I have a dear friend who is a glassblower (Niche award finalist last year)
and she told me I couldn't mix glass and clay because of the shrinkage
factor. Another friend who works with tube glass said I could work it onto
the finished pottery piece, subject to expansion on the pot. Yet another
friend into neon and I concocted some great workups for combining neon with
clay...It was a lot of fun.....
It appears that adding molten glass to a pot will crack the pot and the glass
will not fit when cooled. Glass, BTW melts at 1300 degrees. That neon was
spectacular, though...boy......biiiig platelike forms with holes...I remember
one had holes near the outside and other parts lifted and opened in the
midddle with different color neon tubes running outside and inside
everything....I sure wish at times that I knew how to do the neon end of
it.....turn me loose........
To answer another request yesterday...my friend did not coat her kiln
shelves...she put the glass on some kind of parchment paper...and I don't
remember every seeing a wash in the annealer. Her furnace died about two
years ago and her husband built her a completely new one with
castables....The furnace has to maintain 2300 degrees around the clock so it
was quite a challenge. The only problem she had with it when finished was
that the castable was crumbly around the door where she was constantly
gathering the glass. I have spent many happy times opening and closing the
glory hole for her....
Pelly
Kathryn Whipple on fri 19 apr 96
Last year i turned my studio over to a young stained glass enthusiast when
i moved away, and whne i returned a few months later, i found that she had
salvaged some bits from my shard pile--two thirds of a mug, most of the rim
of a bowl, etc--and soldered panels of stained glass to them to make boxes.
I have to say they were fascinating enough that i instantly forgave her
for violating the privacy of my shard pile... ;)
Kathy Whipple
Brooker FL--the mosquitos came back last week. Dang.
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