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Cracked as a feature
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:02 am
by Gusglass
Several years ago I saw someone fuse shattered glass. It was like the spider web on a broken windshield. None of the pieces were missing and there was little evidence of the edge rounding when glass is fused.
Are there any pictures of this available?
How did they do this? Temperature shock? Physical breaking?
Thanks.
Re: Cracked as a feature
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 11:29 am
by DonMcClennen
Put piece of glass inside some newspaper... Hit with hammer.. restack on base glass..fire!!
Re: Cracked as a feature
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 1:56 pm
by DonMcClennen
Leave a little space between shards(1/8")when glueing in place for base glass to fill in during fusing for design.
Re: Cracked as a feature
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:25 am
by Rick Wilton
It possibly wasn't fused but a sheet of tempered glass glued to a sheet of regular glass with the tempered glass shattered but held in place with the glue and clear sheet. It can also be done without the clear glass yet still using a glue of some sort. The laminated version has been around for decades the second technique is something developed by Rick Silas.
https://www.silastialglass.com/silastial-shatter-glass
https://www.silastialglass.com/silastia ... bent-glass
Re: Cracked as a feature
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:33 am
by Buttercup
A long time ago last century I made a large (3) - panel shattered glass screen for a restaurant as well as a few table tops. Each panel was composed of a single sheet of tempered glass laminated between two sheets of annealed (non-tempered) glass. The exciting part is putting the tip of a nail against the tempered glass and whacking it with a hammer and watching the glass cracking all over. The undamaged sheets laminated either side hold it all together.
I see the the cold-bent shattered glass technique has been patented by Rick Silas and as he's teaching it I won't comment on the method.