The evolution of the platter, etc

I forgot to take a picture of everything before turning on the kiln today for this next drop-ring phase. But here are the pictures from last time.















Well, the flat disk phase of the platter has some dragon teeth and lots of bubbles. Bubbles are now a design feature as I'm sure they won't go away. Next time I begin a project like this I'll be sure to fuse fire with a longer bubble squeeze though.

I'm going to drop this into a plate of sand with three clear feet imbedded. It's all guesswork.... the 3 in plant pots are the stand for the fibre board drop ring. I've sanded the edges a bit and also added clear stringer to allow a slump that will hopefully eliminate the dragon feet. And there will be texture!














The mask will drap over a rounded form. I've added a port and starboard (red and green) bar that will allow the ribbons to loop over. Also some white "piano key" eyelashes. Could do more with that design idea in the future. I love working with black. It's shiny and it fuses together more fully and invisibly than some of the other colours .













The pot melts didn't -- not even an interesting teardrop which I had kind of hoped for. Maybe I'll try these again in the small kiln and go above 1500. The other fusing is okay but a bit rough. I'm doing a drop ring with some of them and trying a few tricks like sand, a ring of stringers to allow slumping etc... because the roughness of the edges isn't really workable and the small amount of coldwork that I'm willing to do is not enough.






6-segment schedule for drop ring.....
............rate /hour .......degrees.............hold
1.............747.............1000 .............18
2. .............490 .............1335............12
3 as fast as possible....1000 ............. 12
4..............220 .............955 .............50 (annealing)
5..............100 .............800 ............. 04
6. .............300 ............. 280 ............. probably about 9 hours total