By: Msm

Msm — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:14:40 +0000

Thank you soo much. Yes I found out the hard way after I tried glass from Scotland w/ a pic setting . Thank god I had plenty more. I created a setting like you said , then added it later. I was just making sure I wasn’t wasting time . I also had the out lines and it actually melted the glass and changed it’s color. Thanks for your help!!

By: Valarie M Lewis

Valarie M Lewis — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:20:37 +0000

Are you putting beach glass into PMC? If so, you need to create settings that the stone can be added later, unless you want the glass to come out shiny. The temperatures that PMC fires at are higher than the temp to fire polish glass. Another thing you need to be careful with is that beach glass is from an unknown source. many types of glass will react with silver or other melted metal fumes at high temperatures. I am a glasser, and I made the mistake of firing my PMC on the same shelf I use for glass. I didn’t have any glass in the kiln at the time. Later I went back and fired a glass plate, and it had the outlines of all the jewelry I had done stained into the back of it. The shelf held the fumes and I had to replace it in order to fire glass in there again. (there are non reactive glasses you can use if you want to fire dichroic glass in place with PMC, but understand that you need a separate shelf if you plan to fire any other kind of glass). At any rate, beach glass will lose it’s matte luster if you fire it over 1300 degrees.

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