How To Make A Ceramic Mold For Glass Slumping

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.

How to make a ceramic mold for 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. Both are placed inside the kiln and the kiln is fired up. Slumping means heating glass in a kiln over a mold until it takes the shape of that mold. 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.

There are two basic types of molds in glass slumping. 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. 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. Slumping glass constitutes bending or slumping fused glass over or into a mold.

You ll fire the mold without any glass on it. Now you can fire your mold to cure the rigidizer according to the instructions that come with your rigidizer. Plates are essential for glass studios. Custom ceramic texture molds for fused glass.

This newly formed glass is then placed over a ceramic mold. To complete the slumping process take your glass through heating and cooling processes. 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. We offer a variety of mold shapes for slumping glass bottles.

Molds for glass slumping are surprisingly easy to make. I use a paragon janus 23 multi purpose kiln capable of firing glass or ceramics with the fl. Glassworkers usually slump their medium over metal molds and into ceramic molds. Slumpy s has a great selection of plate molds dish molds server molds and more.

You can also make your own shapes using your own bisque. Hump molds are used to form the interior of the slumped glass. If using a mold it should be covered with a thick coat of kiln wash or glass separator. This example explains how molds are made from clay.

I often use smaller triangle shelf posts wrapped in thin fire paper to create an elevated neck on beer bottles for spoon rests. The slumping glass process is used for making bowls platters or decorative 3 d objects.