Glass fusion, not-yet-results
I haven’t posted my glass stuff because — well, because the way the stuff turned out the second day was seriously disappointing. I had asked to fuse our glass so it was sort of melty, but she said no, it had to be fused flat. In the end, the fusing didn’t come close to flat — it wasn’t even melty, the edges are still quite defined. So the stuff that I put together for one plan ended up looking, mostly, terrible. I have a few small pieces that will work in a mobile, one that may work as a box top (but may need to be fused more), another than may work (but may need to be fused more — neither all the way flat, necessarily, just meltyish), and one that is terrible and absolutely needs to be fused flat (which is how I designed it for in the first place).
Personally I am not sympathetic to the “hey, they need to learn too” school of thought when I paid over 150$ for the class and something like 75$ for the glass and another fusing would cost me 30$ from that place. It’s one thing that she needs more skills teaching — I was upset, but it was fine, because I learned best by doing — it’s another that she doesn’t have enough practice on this kiln (or any kiln) to know what happens. Also she doesn’t know half of the science behind it, which annoys me. The first day’s work all got bubbles. Another person’s work the second day broke, and mine looks all wrong. (Another reason I want a kiln: so I can fix these mistakes by myself. I’ve pretty much decided to get one in August when I get back from vacation, anyhow.)
I will post it eventually, but I remain disappointed by how it looks, so I can’t quite face it yet. Especially since some of the stuff from the first day looked really good.
June 23rd, 2004 at 9:23 pm
The teacher isn’t good? That’s a bummer. Especially with expensive supplies that you can’t reuse.
That said, I’d still be interested in seeing what the failures look like.
June 23rd, 2004 at 10:19 pm
Well, some of the things are fixable — they need to be put in a kiln longer. But it’s inconvenient to use theirs (for various reasons) but if I get one . . . oh, what the hell, *when* I get one.
I will post pictures. I’m just not ready to yet. I know they’re fixable, I learned a lot, I had a great deal of fun, I found something I really wanted to do more of. I just am upset because of some of the results and because I feel I got gypped by which teacher it was. (The usual teacher has over 20 years of experience — she has less than 3.)