[TheForge] Jewelry Finishes

Fri Nov 22 12:21:00 2002

Not only do you have to bring it down slowly, you have to do it in steps.=

For example:
Kiln at 1500 degrees - glass on steel at 1500 degrees

Turn back set point to about 1200 degrees

Let it drift down to 1200 and then let it hold there for a couple of hour=
s.

Then 1000 degrees ditto

Then 900 ditto

Then turn off the kiln and let it cool over night and most importantly...=

NEVER OPEN THE DOOR until it has completely cooled!!!!!

Ray =

Cincinnati

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> From: "Marthanis" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2002/11/22 Fri AM 08:31:09 EST
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] Jewelry Finishes
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> You have to bring the temperature down slowly.
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> Chad
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Chobrda
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 6:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Jewelry Finishes
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> Bruce, I tried putting glass on a forged piece a while back. It looked
> great until it
> started to cool. Glass splinters flying about the shop. If you had an
> annealing oven,
> and could bring the piece down slowly it might work.
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> John C.
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> Bruce Freeman wrote:
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> > Same subject came up about a year or two ago, so might be findable in=

> the archives.
> >
> > My suggestion was clear glass =AF apply it to hot metal like a flux.
> >
> > Bruce
> > NJ
> >
> > >>> [email protected] 11/15/02 07:30PM >>>
> > Hi guys -
> >
> >     I have never before done anything that  could be condsidered
> "jewelry",
> > and am therefore totally lost on what type of finish should be put
> onto a
> > ring I made for my wife out of hot rolled steel.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
> > Home of Rick's Forge & LEM the Wonder Mule
> > Email:  [email protected]
> > Web:  http://www.tbcnet.com/~rafterlazyc
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