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What are some recommended texts for techniques on deeply slumping vessels? For example, how to slump bell-shaped objects?

Karl Harron, from Northern Ireland, has developed molds and techniques for this. He has been teaching at a few studios around the USA. I believe you can purchase a set of Karl's molds from Bullseye, and probably at studios where he has taught, like Weisser Glass in MD. He did quite a bit of R&D to come up with a multi-mold technique. He decided to sell the molds with the R&D factor built in to the cost of the molds. I think that means they are a fantastic bargain. I have spoken with students in his classes, and they were thrilled for the opportunity to learn from Karl's experiences.

Thanks for the reference, I will go a-snoopin' about for his stuff.

UPDATE: Thanks a lot, Bert. Now I have a new artist to obsess over.

Where are the molds? I couldn't find them at either place you suggested.

Jim

The Hobbyist wrote:Where are the molds? I couldn't find them at either place you suggested.
Jim

I found references to them in some of the Bullseye blog posts. Here's instructions, which seem *very* useful. I might try to make some of my own based on these . . . paying especial attention to the proportionate shifts in diameter and depth at each step.

http://www.creativeceramics.eu/docs/slu ... _steps.pdf

And here's Karl's stuff . . . there's no doubt but that he is a phenomenal talent: http://www.theglasstudioireland.com/gallery_1.html

(Be sure to view all four galleries.)

And so where does own go to obtain the molds?

Jim

Check under distributors

The Hobbyist wrote:And so where does own go to obtain the molds?
Jim

There's this fantastic resource called an Internet Search Engine. You should totes check it out.

You can buy the molds at Creative Ceramics.
On their website you have also the instructions how to use them.
Karl teaches also intensively in Europe too....................




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