Beautiful panels Sophie. I am sorry one cracked. It looked like the cracked edges were sharp indicating it broke during cooling. Sift clear powder over the broken pieces is the only solution I can think of, but structurally I think you had no option but to fuse it to the extent you would lose the beautiful texture. Love the waves!
Between you and me, Nigel broke it!! My plan is to put it back in with some frit to hide the offending bits (much as you suggest)- and put back a bit of the texture. I just needed to get some painted work fired so couldn't do it for the video.
@@SophiesStainedGlass the panels are beautiful. And I cannot get over the size of your kiln!! I knew you would be 2 steps ahead of me, but I wanted to sound intelligent. Take care Sophie. Scary times these.
I'm planning on doing that for the next video - on a tack firing. I didn't have time to do it this time as I needed my kiln for some painting I'm doing.
Thank you. Watched your exoeriment trying to fix . At the moment trying to fix my broken piece however to no succes
Good luck with that.
Beautiful panels Sophie. I am sorry one cracked. It looked like the cracked edges were sharp indicating it broke during cooling. Sift clear powder over the broken pieces is the only solution I can think of, but structurally I think you had no option but to fuse it to the extent you would lose the beautiful texture. Love the waves!
Between you and me, Nigel broke it!! My plan is to put it back in with some frit to hide the offending bits (much as you suggest)- and put back a bit of the texture. I just needed to get some painted work fired so couldn't do it for the video.
@@SophiesStainedGlass the panels are beautiful. And I cannot get over the size of your kiln!! I knew you would be 2 steps ahead of me, but I wanted to sound intelligent. Take care Sophie. Scary times these.
Could you cut them up and make a couple of leaded art glass panels, perhaps for the garden?
Probably could do!
Would it work if you sprinkled clear powder Frit over it and fuse it again?
It's worth a try...experimenting being the name of the game.
Tiene que considerar que el vidrio aunque tenga el mismo COE pueden ser de diferente densidad. Debe mejorar el “annealing” y el tiempo de retensión.
If you add more frit you can fuse it again.
Many thanks!
Would it work to pile more frit on the damaged part and tac fuse again ?
You guessed my next video!
@@SophiesStainedGlass I look forward to it
That would have worked on second fusing had you put more frit over the cracked areas.
I'm planning on doing that for the next video - on a tack firing. I didn't have time to do it this time as I needed my kiln for some painting I'm doing.