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Tips and Tricks
Bullseye Glass provides educational information about its glass and other products on its website...Curious Glass is providing links for you to easily find some of this valuable information.
 
Glass Tips
Learn what to expect from Bullseye sheet glass colors before and after heatwork in the kiln by using this handy reference guide.
It's a rod e-cyclopedia! Torch Tips are a web resource which includes information about potential color reactions and user notes for special styles.

Bullseye TechBook Technical Notes

Good housekeeping comes before all else.
10 Ways to improve your cutting.
Checking your kiln for even heat distribution.
Instructions for adapting and operating a Caldera kiln for drawing bold, calligraphic glass lines.
Measured COE alone does NOT equal compatibility. But Bullseye’s testing method does.
Understanding how glass behaves at specific stages in the fusing cycle, in theory and practice.
Understanding distortion and trapped air.
This illustrated article presents a simple system for monitoring temperatures within the kiln during firing—to ensure uniform cooling and proper annealing of large-scale work.

 Tip Sheets 

Use ceramic fiber paper with Bullseye glasses to create a tile or tray with a deep texture or shallow relief.

Create a thick slab of glass with internal images and dramatic depth, learning key techniques as you go.

Simple ideas for using frits and stringers to create color field, forms, lines and patterns.

Learn to create a reverse relief casting with the optical clarity of a furnace casting.

Developed in Australia using Bullseye glass, Roll-ups allow the formation of blown vessels without a furnace.

Includes basic firing and slumping schedules.

 Color Cues

Get ideas for combining Bullseye colors in new ways.
 
 
 
 

 Frit Tinting

Frit tinting is a method that allows one to create specific color blends for kilncasting and pâte de verre.  For more information, please click here.
 
Project Notes
 
Careful recordkeeping leads to improved craftsmanship. Keep notes on each firing using this form.
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