Cynthia

Don’t know if this’ll be useful for anyone, but I got tired of “figgerin” on paper when my stuff would come out of the kiln. So I built a little firing calculator to do it for me, and you’re welcome to download the file and try it. (You’ll need an application that can read Microsoft Excel 2003 [...]

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Serves 12… if you can find the plates 

Blow the dust off your old recipe box and pull out that superb three-years-in-development recipe for your award-winning Triple-Chocoholic cake. No recipe. Recall the time you were late for the hotshop, needed a couple of index cards to line up colored powder on the marver like cocaine on [...]

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Lani of Bullseye posted a short on how the company uses cryogenics and vaporizers to cut their natural gas use. I had to chuckle because I have fond memories of that equipment. 
You see, when those vaporizers were installed I was sitting about 20 feet away, taking a class from Catharine Newell. That class was hitting my [...]

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I know I said that I was off writing about glass projects for awhile (seeing as how I’m revamping the studio and swamped with dayjob stuff), but I just noticed that seven of the last eight posts were about restaurants. While that speaks well for my social life (I suppose), it does seem a bit [...]

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Hypothesis: A glass framework stabilizes a tack-fused stringer construction, requiring fewer stringers (and likely fewer firings).
Background: I’m having a fair amount of success with tack-fused stringer projects that build on a glass support structure. Since the support framework is tedious to construct, I’m wondering if it’s really contributing enough to be worth doing.
Test: Make a [...]

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