Fuss'n & Fusion Pg 3

    I now have my own kiln so if there is a mistake in how something is fired it's nobody's fault but my own.  These are the first pieces from my first firing of my new kiln.

First View  They look pretty good from this distance.

Not bad from here either a little darker

A few bubbles and yeah there's a shift of the clear top layer on the bottom right piece. Oh yeah just a reminder to folks make sure you have at least 1/2 inch between pieces or they may fuse together look at the top of the bottom right piece.  oops!

It's hard to see the dicro-slide on the three on top and the, the one in the center and the one with dichoric glass top.  The other three on the right show the dicro-slide butterflies ok. See what I mean about keeping them apart? 

You can't see it here but the white  that was not covered with a clear top came out sort of frosted.  Everything else came out with a nice gloss.  There are three pieces here with a copper butterfly sandwiched between two layers.  Some bubbles are visible but where my first work with copper inclusion they came out a solid color these have several different colors in them.  As you can see those pieces I tried to make into round cabs.  came out sort of octagon shaped with 8 points.  OH can you see the butterfiles on the blue and white pieces in the cetner top or the white piece top right?  They are there but as I said I was disappointed in the dicro-slide. 

The firing program went as follows

More than 12 hrs after the start the temperature had not gone down to 200 degrees yet.

If you can figure out what I did wrong for ANY of these or have any suggestions for changing the times or temps for firing, please send me an email to:  chris.chriswilliams@gmail.com