After a bit of a hiatus with the glass fusing (I’ve been super busy lately and not much motivated to hang around the joint while I wait for glass to melt), I decided to make a new bowl. This one started as a simple octagon of Bullseye tekta, to which I added an octagon and a border of iridescent glass. I tack-fused the whole thing and then finished up the slump today.
I think it turned out rather nice. I started to have a problem with a bubble forming during the tack-fuse, but I cut the soak a little short and managed to keep it from distorting things too much. It all cleaned up when I slumped the glass anyway. I used the portable glass shop again to make the octagons and the fiddling cuts for the border pieces. That thing is worth every penny.
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That is lovely! Have you considered making these for a living?
“Rather nice” is definitely an understatement. I really like the border.