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I know that this has been talked about a lot on the bulletin board, but I've had trouble finding out if I can definitely use a Skutt ceramic kiln for fusing and slumping, especially the annealing part. I learned fusing/slumping/casting on large glass kilns with Digitry controllers, but alas I no lon...

I just got a free box of broken glass from a company that imports blown, colored lamp globes from Italy. All of it has dirt in the glass as if it had been thrown in the batch before it was blown. I was told that this was intentional technique and actually popular among lighting customers. Anyway, I'...

Most of the molds I've used for slumping/casting have been a 50/50 plaster/silica mix. I typically get one or two firings before the structure breaks down. I'm trying to find a stronger mold that is not ceramic or steel. I often use Ultracal gypsum cement for non-glass, non-heated molds because of i...