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Question: When using the ring drop mold which I have used, how do I keep from getting a non smooth kind of shardy appearence on the bottom side.

I would love some help on how to use the drop mold properly. Do I need mone that one layer of glass.

Thanks,

Sandy

Sandy,

The non-shiny surface of glass is typical for any fuse or slump firing, not just drop rings -- the bottom is always less shiny than the top. Also, you will definitely need more than one layer of glass.

I just wrote an article on using drop rings for Glass Craftsman magazine. If you find a copy of the current issue (no. 178), it will help with basic questions. This particular issue has quite a few articles on kiln-forming techniques.

Brad Walker wrote:
I just wrote an article on using drop rings for Glass Craftsman magazine. If you find a copy of the current issue (no. 178), it will help with basic questions. This particular issue has quite a few articles on kiln-forming techniques.

Here in the UK we are pretty starved of specialist magazines - and I'd never heard of the mag you mention. I checked out their website and have now ordered a subscription - are there any other publications we should know about here in the backwater-that-is-the-UK?

Actually, we're pretty starved in the US for good glass magazines, too. It's only recently that articles on kiln-forming have started to appear, and there really isn't any single publication I'd call excellent.

In addition to Glass Craftsman, you might want to check out Glass Art, which tends to feature artists rather than techniques, but which has a number of good articles from time to time. Also worthwhile are a handful of magazines that focus on craft, rather than just glass: American Craft (published by the American Craft Council), The Crafts Report (good website, too), Niche (for galleries), and American Style (general interest).

Peg wrote:
Here in the UK we are pretty starved of specialist magazines - and I'd never heard of the mag you mention. I checked out their website and have now ordered a subscription - are there any other publications we should know about here in the backwater-that-is-the-UK?

Peg so you think the UK is a backwater.....down in the other Albany ..'starved of any glass publication' is a understatment..But we can buy 'Craft Arts International' it's a really great glossy Australian crafts magazine it covers all fine art crafts.........Col

i dtto to that. also thanks for the thread to artisans book shop. my good book store here went, nah have not had any call for that stuff. " THAT STUFF?"
JOHN

I just wrote an article on using drop rings for Glass Craftsman magazine.

Here in the UK we are pretty starved of specialist magazines - and I'd never heard of the mag you mention. I checked out their website and have now ordered a subscription

... and I've heard nothing since then. Does anyone have an email address for the magazine? I've not had a confirmation of my sub, and there is no contact info on their website.