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Old 2016-04-06, 1:41pm
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Hello, i will be making small glass cabochons, for putting them into jewelery. I will be using COE 104 soft glass. Will i have to put them into annealing kiln for the same process that i do with the beads? The diameter of cabochons is 2,5mm. Height is 3mm.
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Old 2016-04-06, 2:34pm
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Old 2016-04-06, 3:28pm
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Old 2016-04-18, 8:00pm
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I used to make a glass item that was the same size you are talking about.

Once the glass had melted as much as I needed, I would open the kiln door and crash cool my kiln to 1100 degrees, shut the door and let it just drop in temperature overnight.

I sold thousands of these glass items and never had a problem.


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Old 2016-04-19, 11:47am
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what did you place the glass on (kiln paper, kiln wash?)?

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I used to make a glass item that was the same size you are talking about.

Once the glass had melted as much as I needed, I would open the kiln door and crash cool my kiln to 1100 degrees, shut the door and let it just drop in temperature overnight.

I sold thousands of these glass items and never had a problem.


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Old 2016-04-20, 11:35pm
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what did you place the glass on (kiln paper, kiln wash?)?
At that time we only had kiln wash and it worked just fine.

Before we could get Effetre sheet glass, we would fuse rods together to form a sheet.

This required a higher temperature than when doing smaller pieces and because of the higher temperatures, the kiln wash would stick to the fused glass. I could have used shelf paper for that project.

I did lots of fusing of millefiori into clear.

The glass that I was melting was mostly Millefiori for earing studs.

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Old 2016-04-21, 10:43am
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Thanks for the info

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At that time we only had kiln wash and it worked just fine.

Before we could get Effetre sheet glass, we would fuse rods together to form a sheet.

This required a higher temperature than when doing smaller pieces and because of the higher temperatures, the kiln wash would stick to the fused glass. I could have used shelf paper for that project.

I did lots of fusing of millefiori into clear.

The glass that I was melting was mostly Millefiori for earing studs.

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