How To Make A Ceramic Mold For Glass Slumping

You can also make your own shapes using your own bisque.

How to make a ceramic mold for glass slumping. You ll fire the mold without any glass on it. Custom ceramic texture molds for fused glass. Slumpy s has a great selection of plate molds dish molds server molds and more. This will prevent the fiberboard from fusing to the posts.

Both are placed inside the kiln and the kiln is fired up. I often use smaller triangle shelf posts wrapped in thin fire paper to create an elevated neck on beer bottles for spoon rests. There are two basic types of molds in glass slumping. A little more pondering brought me back to my first idea of carving a slumping mold in fiberboard but it would have to be much thicker than before.

We offer a variety of mold shapes for slumping glass bottles. The slumping glass process is used for making bowls platters or decorative 3 d objects. Carving 1 thick fiberboard i got my hands on some 1 inch thick fiberboard and decided i would just have to carve the mold as i did in my first attempt but not go all the way through the bottom. This example explains how molds are made from clay.

If using a mold it should be covered with a thick coat of kiln wash or glass separator. Plates are essential for glass studios. The key is to make the mold out of the right material which will withstand the 1 200 degree temperature in the kiln. Mold making for glass art by dan jenkins 3 glass and mirror pieces hot glue gun and glue plastic tubs with cut bottoms for dams kitchen timer the journey begins let s begin to make a mold beginner mold makers often pick objects which have undercuts are overly complicated and can be beyond the scope of their ability at that moment.

There s a huge variety of commercial moulds for sale or you can make your own and create something truly unique without too much extra work. To complete the slumping process take your glass through heating and cooling processes. Hump molds are used to form the interior of the slumped glass. Slumping means heating glass in a kiln over a mold until it takes the shape of that mold.

Now you can fire your mold to cure the rigidizer according to the instructions that come with your rigidizer. Prop it up on shelf posts and lay a small piece of shelf paper between the posts and the mold if they haven t been coated in kiln wash. Glass slumping sometimes called warm glass or glass art is a form of artistic expression that uses the heat of a gas or electric kiln to melt 2 or more different pieces of glass together and fuse them into 1 piece. This tutorial will explain how i make custom ceramic texture molds to create fused glass art items used in this tutorial 1 firing the clay and glass kiln.

This newly formed glass is then placed over a ceramic mold. Molds for glass slumping are surprisingly easy to make.