How I create things in my kiln, and what eventually happens to what I create...

Glass goes in the kiln, and glass comes out, quite altered! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's what happens in life.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

No UPS deliveries on Sunday, so no orange glass. I had to get my glass-cutting fix by re-doing the bottom of the panel. I wasn't happy with the orange-green stuff I had used, so out it went (most of it) and I got out some glass I had been terrified to cut. See all of those ripples? They are very deep and breaking this glass, once it has been scored, is not easy. This glass has a mind of its own. It likes to shatter at unexpected times, or run any which way except the way I scored it.

I cut, and I cursed, and I re-cut it, until I finally gave in and made mostly straight cuts. The finished pieces were held to the grinder to get the curves I wanted, and to grind a bevel onto the back of each piece so I could foil/lead it.  I used part of the orangey green glass for reasons only known to my mind alone.

In my box of tricks I found an amethyst geode slice, and ground THAT down, as well.  No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, and nothing is safe from my grinder!  Nothing.

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