Our July Demonstration was about screen/pot melts. Lori Scharf presented a detail technique involving screens and Charlie Best presented the “Rube Goldberg” method of pot-melts.
Rube Goldberg Method:
Stack the glass in a form. I usually cut a base piece to stack the glass on. The following photo illustrates one way of stacking the glass – like cordwood.
Fire the glass using the following firing schedule:
R T H
600 1000 20
600 1600 60
999 1500 45
999 900 90
100 700 – At this point let the kiln cool down to ~150.
The following photo illustrates the glass melt.
The finished product:
Thank you to Charlie for a great step by step!