tracidawn78
2009-02-07, 9:10pm
So I took a weekend trip to Austin and got to go to the Austin Thin Films factory. My stepmom and I spent forever in the scrap room and I managed to get out of there with about 2 lbs of 104 dichroic glass for really really cheap. I found some pre-fired strips in the scraps, and I also bought some pre-packaged dichroic strips that weren't in the scrap pile. These are the prefired ones I bought http://store.valueweb.com/servlet/dichro/Detail?no=11 and the other ones look like this, except I picked out only long thin scraps of it http://store.valueweb.com/servlet/dichro/Detail?no=444
Here's my newb question (I've hardly done anything dichroic-wise in the torch, only fusing in the kiln): Do I need to fire the unfired strips in the kiln before I use it in the torch, or does it not matter? Am I going to get different results with the pre-fired vs. unfired? If I DO need to prefire them, what do you suggest I fire it at in my kiln so it doesn't get too melty? Any tips would be appreciated :)
Here's my newb question (I've hardly done anything dichroic-wise in the torch, only fusing in the kiln): Do I need to fire the unfired strips in the kiln before I use it in the torch, or does it not matter? Am I going to get different results with the pre-fired vs. unfired? If I DO need to prefire them, what do you suggest I fire it at in my kiln so it doesn't get too melty? Any tips would be appreciated :)