melting glass

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Waterjet cut design elements for fused glass bowls.

Adding glass frit powder to fused glass jewelry provides different design features

A reference library for making and selling mosaics with videos and articles covering beginning to advanced mosaic topics.

In this week's "Sampler Platter Class," we played with powdered glass, frits, stringers and scrap glass bits. In preparation for this class, I went to Hobby Lobby and spent an hour and a half scavenging for useful templates to use with our sifted powders. I found some little adhesive dots sheets in the scrapbook section, some plastic needlepoint canvases, a couple of orange rubber painting combs, and a multitude of other things that I didn't go looking for, but couldn't pass up. (NOTE: I've…

Apollinaris sparkling water bottles are crushed and fused into leaves. Copper wire leaf veins are fused into glass leaves, and then soldered to brass stems....

IMD-1065G LG. BOTTLE slumping / TRAY mold - NEW

Tutorial for customizing dollar store glass plates to match your party theme.

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This week I have experimented with "Painting With Frit," which I love! I have always loved painting on glass, thus this is a natural transi...

We think you'll love this wine bottle holder, (wine rack), just as much as we do! It can hold up to three wine bottles quite stylishly. What better way to display a few of your favorite wines! So what's so different about this wine bottle holder? It was actually made from a recycled and melted large green / brown glass wine bottle! This bottle has been melted and shaped in our temperature controlled glass kiln and annealed properly for strength.

Eco friendly, Flattened Melted Curved wine bottle. The retro Hummingbird pattern was handpainted with black glass food safe glass enamel and fused into the bottle. The Flattened Curved Bottle was Melted with gold mika poweder and blue glass powder. it can be used as a cheese and cracker tray, a plate or serving platter, a candle holder, as a Spoon Rest, It also would make the perfect wedding or housewarming gift. This is the perfect gift for any wine lover More from our Shop…

Glassblower.Info is dedicated to Hot Glass (off-hand / furnace) glassblowing with a blowpipe, and contains over 33,900 photos, instructional videos, web pages, and external links -- especially for the beginner to intermediate glassblowing student, to document various techniques and the "ballet of glassblowing".

Melted wine bottles. Paired with Martha Stewart glass paints. Baked at 350* to set for dishwasher safe cleaning. Painted with brush and sponge on the back of the glass. Be careful to inspect the melted bottles. Any crack will increase in the over step.