Tech Tips — cutting

You know when you are scoring glass, especially during strip cutting, and tiny shards of glass are jumping out of your scores? These shards are really bad when cutting black glass. They make a big mess and you can get pesky painful shards in your hands. Here's an easy solution. Simply take a small amount of cutting oil and lightly spread it over your glass with a brush. Voilá! No shards! Buy GAI Cutting Oil

I don't know about all of you, but every once in a while I will fuse a project that just doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to, and there it sits forever on my "let's wait and see what I want to do with it this" shelf...

Time to make frit balls! Here's how to do it, including a firing schedule. Read on for more...