Sophie's Stained Glass | Re-fusing Broken glass :1

Has your beautiful piece of fused glass broken? This video will show you the sort of results you can get by re-firing.
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[@yehudithheymans2210]

Thank you. Watched your exoeriment trying to fix . At the moment trying to fix my broken piece however to no succes

[@SophiesStainedGlass]

Good luck with that.

[@VitroFractal-mc]

Tiene que considerar que el vidrio aunque tenga el mismo COE pueden ser de diferente densidad. Debe mejorar el “annealing” y el tiempo de retensión.

[@robertcalvert8914]

Beautiful panels Sophie. I am sorry one cracked. It looked like the cracked edges were sharp indicating it broke during cooling. Sift clear powder over the broken pieces is the only solution I can think of, but structurally I think you had no option but to fuse it to the extent you would lose the beautiful texture. Love the waves!

[@SophiesStainedGlass]

Between you and me, Nigel broke it!! My plan is to put it back in with some frit to hide the offending bits (much as you suggest)- and put back a bit of the texture. I just needed to get some painted work fired so couldn't do it for the video.

[@robertcalvert8914]

@@SophiesStainedGlass the panels are beautiful. And I cannot get over the size of your kiln!! I knew you would be 2 steps ahead of me, but I wanted to sound intelligent. Take care Sophie. Scary times these.

[@apricusstainedglass]

Could you cut them up and make a couple of leaded art glass panels, perhaps for the garden?

[@SophiesStainedGlass]

Probably could do!

[@jokappel2430]

If you add more frit you can fuse it again.

[@SophiesStainedGlass]

Many thanks!

[@von269]

Would it work to pile more frit on the damaged part and tac fuse again ?

[@SophiesStainedGlass]

You guessed my next video!

[@von269]

@@SophiesStainedGlass I look forward to it

[@kizzywitch]

That would have worked on second fusing had you put more frit over the cracked areas.

[@SophiesStainedGlass]

I'm planning on doing that for the next video - on a tack firing. I didn't have time to do it this time as I needed my kiln for some painting I'm doing.