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Welcome visitor you can login. Or create an account. 0 item(s) - £0.00. Democraft Ltd have web links with the following businesses. Because we list them does not mean that we endorse them or have checked their web content but we have probably used them as suppliers. We provide these links as a useful tool for the benefit of our customers. In Glasgow and Edinburgh Showrooms and on line shop. Mail order shop and beading patterns. And extensive glass and workshop space at 77 Hanson Street, Glasgow.
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Kilncare - Glass, Ceramic and Enamelling Kilns
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The Elite-fuser, King of kilns. The long awaited release of the. Third member of the extremely. Popular Hobbyfuser and Pro-fuser. Family is now Official. The Elite-fuser, with internal dimensions. Of 1020mm x 800mm x 320mm, is for those. Artists that out grow their Pro-fuser or simply. Need a kiln with a much larger capacity. Find details of this exciting new Kilncare kiln here. Kilncare sponsor elite artists. We are proud to announce that. Are the main sponsors of a group. Dutch Design Week 2015! 58 Car...
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Glass Tips: Safe Cooling Speeds
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Information and help on glass fusing, stained glass, kiln forming, acid etching, sandblasting and other areas of working with glass. Wednesday, 8 April 2015. Almost everywhere you read that you should not open your kiln to cool it. But we know that the kiln cools progressively slower as it nears room temperatures. So how do we safely cool the kiln at rates the glass can cope with. Fused Glass in Glasgow. Stained Glass Supplies Ltd. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Comments about Glass Tips. Your Treas...
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Glass Tips: Storage of Came
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Information and help on glass fusing, stained glass, kiln forming, acid etching, sandblasting and other areas of working with glass. Wednesday, 1 July 2015. There are a variety of ways of storing lead came. The best would be storage in air tight containers. In the absence of that, many solutions are possible. These are some of the considerations you should be thinking of when constructing your came store. Stained Glass in Glasgow. Stained Glass Supplies Ltd. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Your Treas...
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Glass Tips: Channels for Jewellery
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Information and help on glass fusing, stained glass, kiln forming, acid etching, sandblasting and other areas of working with glass. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. One of the requirements is to prevent needle points and drawbacks of the glass. There are a number of ways to do this. Some of them are noted here. When creating a single piece from cut glass parts, you need to ensure the upper piece of glass extends beyond the lower piece by at least 3mm to allow the glass to bend over the channel and touch the lo...
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Glass Tips: Stabilising Stringers
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Information and help on glass fusing, stained glass, kiln forming, acid etching, sandblasting and other areas of working with glass. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Stringers and rods never seem to stay where you put them. Glue them and they move after the glue has burned away. Grinding a flat side to them seems a lot of work. Easier, is to put them in the kiln and take them to a tack fuse to give a flat spot. But that takes a lot of kiln time. Fused Glass in Glasgow. Grinding and Polishing Glass. Comments abou...
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Glass Tips: Hand Finishing Jewellery Edges
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Information and help on glass fusing, stained glass, kiln forming, acid etching, sandblasting and other areas of working with glass. Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Hand Finishing Jewellery Edges. You can finish the edges of pieces by hand. This process avoids the water soak stage, can bring back into use the pieces you forgot to soak, and can be taken all the way to the finished edge. If you are doing only a few pieces, it is much faster than a fire polish in the kiln. Fused Glass in Glasgow. Your Treasure Tro...
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Glass Tips: Physical Characteristics of Solder
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Information and help on glass fusing, stained glass, kiln forming, acid etching, sandblasting and other areas of working with glass. Wednesday, 8 July 2015. Physical Characteristics of Solder. Solder is an alloy of various materials. The most common ones for leading and copper foil work are tin, lead, copper and silver. The most important is tin. There are, of course, some solders that do not have tin in their composition. The graph also shows the melting points of lead (327.5C) and tin (232C). T...This ...
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Glass Tips: Frit Making
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Information and help on glass fusing, stained glass, kiln forming, acid etching, sandblasting and other areas of working with glass. Wednesday, 13 May 2015. Start with clean cullet. Rinse or wash off all the dust and felt tip marks. Spread out to dry, or put the collection in the kiln at about 200C to dry. An example of clear glass cullet. An example of a commercially available frit maker. Example of a suitable coffee grinder. Example of a garbage disposal unit. When you have created a pile of frit, siev...
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