Hi Pat, your pot melts are very very neat, my wife and I have been doing some but they all come out more circular as the glass seems to mix and flow like honey, we have a Duncam boss kiln with a digital pyrometer, we have been using a 6" clay pot and about 1700 grams of glass (mainly clear and then two other colours) about 1400 grams of the clear and 200 of the primary colour and then 100 of the secondary colour, the glass is in smalll bits and we mix it all together, when we fire we have the pot up off the shelf on two 1" square steel bars and they are about 24" long, we have the bars up on some fire bricks so we are about 7" off the shelf, we take about two hours to reach 250 C(500F) and then take about 4 to 5 hours to reach 950C(1700 f) this will give us a perfect circle that is about 11 3/4" in diameter, the glass seems to mix as it spirals down, we have tried doing it at lower levels about 3" off the shelf but have the same results, we really like the effect you get with your pot melts and were wondering if we are doing something wrong or how you are able to achieve your results,
thanks for any help you can give us
Ann & Ron in Kingston
pot melt with unique design
Hi Pat, your pot melts are very very neat, my wife and I have been doing some but they all come out more circular as the glass seems to mix and flow like honey, we have a Duncam boss kiln with a digital pyrometer, we have been using a 6" clay pot and about 1700 grams of glass (mainly clear and then two other colours) about 1400 grams of the clear and 200 of the primary colour and then 100 of the secondary colour, the glass is in smalll bits and we mix it all together, when we fire we have the pot up off the shelf on two 1" square steel bars and they are about 24" long, we have the bars up on some fire bricks so we are about 7" off the shelf, we take about two hours to reach 250 C(500F) and then take about 4 to 5 hours to reach 950C(1700 f) this will give us a perfect circle that is about 11 3/4" in diameter, the glass seems to mix as it spirals down, we have tried doing it at lower levels about 3" off the shelf but have the same results, we really like the effect you get with your pot melts and were wondering if we are doing something wrong or how you are able to achieve your results,
thanks for any help you can give us
Ann & Ron in Kingston