ddossett
2007-02-27, 8:27pm
Hi,
I was reading about boro shorts in Smiley's thread and came across this bit from my friend Nivedita:
Oh, and if there is concern about the Short lengths, just fuse a nice clear rod to it, to the length you are comfy starting with. i like to do this to remember how colors strike and react, since i am a crazy kamakizi pilot when i hit the bench...i take a 1 " piece. fuse it to a clear 6" rod, then heat and strike the colored piece , adding a clear overlay to some part of it...then i label the clear base with the colors name... this helps me when i want to remember how a certain glass reacts, so i can find that again! With boro glass, it so often looks so very different before fire finds it
This started me thinking. Does anyone have a routine for assessing what a new glass does? I just dive in, and what comes comes, but I was thinking that there's got to be a better way. If I go out and buy one of these glasses that costs $100 per pound, I don't want to waste it just fooling around and coming up with fugly beads.
So how do YOU do it? Keep notes? In a notebook, on cards?
I really do want to work out a way of sitting down with a new glass, working with it for say an hour, then the next day be able to pull pieces out of the kiln that can serve as a reference. How about how it plays with standard glasses you use? I imagine a couple of days would be necessary to get a full range of information, but it would really be worth it!
Please tell me how you do it. I'll be working on this as a project and get back to this thread in a week or two.
Doug
I was reading about boro shorts in Smiley's thread and came across this bit from my friend Nivedita:
Oh, and if there is concern about the Short lengths, just fuse a nice clear rod to it, to the length you are comfy starting with. i like to do this to remember how colors strike and react, since i am a crazy kamakizi pilot when i hit the bench...i take a 1 " piece. fuse it to a clear 6" rod, then heat and strike the colored piece , adding a clear overlay to some part of it...then i label the clear base with the colors name... this helps me when i want to remember how a certain glass reacts, so i can find that again! With boro glass, it so often looks so very different before fire finds it
This started me thinking. Does anyone have a routine for assessing what a new glass does? I just dive in, and what comes comes, but I was thinking that there's got to be a better way. If I go out and buy one of these glasses that costs $100 per pound, I don't want to waste it just fooling around and coming up with fugly beads.
So how do YOU do it? Keep notes? In a notebook, on cards?
I really do want to work out a way of sitting down with a new glass, working with it for say an hour, then the next day be able to pull pieces out of the kiln that can serve as a reference. How about how it plays with standard glasses you use? I imagine a couple of days would be necessary to get a full range of information, but it would really be worth it!
Please tell me how you do it. I'll be working on this as a project and get back to this thread in a week or two.
Doug