Results!

Ooooh. I can't wait to do more!

The tack-fusing cycle from yesterday was perfect for the couple of pieces where I added a bead-half to a flat piece of System 96. They softened just a bit but stayed raised on the surface and look great. This cycle would definitely work for slumping or drop-throughs -- the pendants with a channel for the wire to go through lost the channel as it slumped in.

The yard sale plates fused together without the edges softening. So now I now that I need to use a higher schedule than the one for 96 if I am using those. Dennis was very helpful when he told me that if the fusing temperature is, for instance, 50 degrees higher for a found glass than for the System 96 glass, then the annealing temperature must be raised by the same amount. So.... it's NOT rocket science but rather it's basic arithmetic! Wheeee.

Other things of note -- firing the fiber board was a smelly process. I still don't think I love that stuff. Hoping that the mold mix turns out to be a better solution. Can they be combined? Maybe that's the next experiment (build with mold mix onto a piece of fiber board for texture or whatever).

And now I have a sketchbook going as well. Maybe some scanned images from that can go into this blog at some point.