Tips and Tricks

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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.

Bullseye Glass: What to Expect

Glass Tips	Learn what to expect from Bullseye sheet glass colors before and after heatwork in the kiln by using this handy reference guide.
Torch Tips	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

Safety in the Kiln Glass Studio	Good housekeeping comes before all else.
Improving Your Glass Cutting	10 Ways to improve your cutting.
Glass Cleaning Basics
Annealing Charts for Thick Slabs
Annealing FAQ and Video
Knowing Your Kiln	Checking your kiln for even heat distribution.
The Vitigraph Kiln	Instructions for adapting and operating a Caldera kiln for drawing bold, calligraphic glass lines.
Compatibility of Glasses	Measured COE alone does NOT equal compatibility. But Bullseye’s testing method does.
Heat and Glass	Understanding how glass behaves at specific stages in the fusing cycle, in theory and practice.
Volume and Bubble Control	Understanding distortion and trapped air.
Preparing a Kiln Shelf for a Large Kiln
Monitoring Kiln Temperatures for Successful Annealing	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

Kiln Carving	Use ceramic fiber paper with Bullseye glasses to create a tile or tray with a deep texture or shallow relief.
Working Deep	Create a thick slab of glass with internal images and dramatic depth, learning key techniques as you go.
Design Your Own Art Glass	Simple ideas for using frits and stringers to create color field, forms, lines and patterns.
Bullseye Box Casting	Learn to create a reverse relief casting with the optical clarity of a furnace casting.
The Amazing Roll-Up	Developed in Australia using Bullseye glass, Roll-ups allow the formation of blown vessels without a furnace.
Platemaking	Includes basic firing and slumping schedules.
Basic Lost Wax Kilncasting