Fuseworks Drinking Glass Microwave Kiln!

Fuseworks Glass Microwave Kiln!
I was sent this Fuseworks Beginner's Fusing Kit from Diamond Tech!
It's close $100 at arts and crafts stores together with less than $80 on amazon!

It comes amongst a kiln (made for the microwave), lots of glass, kiln paper,
a great drinking glass cutter, estrus resistant gloves together with roughly findings for jewelry!

The drinking glass is beautiful!
But it's glass...so abrupt edges. This is non a kids craft. Haha!

The kiln is lightweight...has a base of operations together with a lid.

You house roughly kiln newspaper on the base.
(it should travel a quarter inch larger than your glass)
Then layer on the drinking glass pieces you lot want...

Stick the base of operations inward the microwave.

(I didn't fifty-fifty bother cleaning the microwave...or photoshopping this picture...keeping it real)

Follow the parcel directions for heating.
I microwaved it for iii 1/2 minutes, together with then close roughly other iii minutes,
checking every thirty seconds to minute.

A brief elevator volition demo if the drinking glass has completely fused.
It's molten glass! Seriously hot!
It tin instruct over 1400 degrees inward there...so travel careful!

Remove the kiln together with maintain the chapeau on it for close thirty minutes.
Then take the chapeau together with allow the drinking glass proceed to cool slowly.
Rapid cooling tin movement cracking.
You tin run into how hot it is inside...

After it is cooled completely...

Check it out!

Wash the excess kiln newspaper off the dorsum of the drinking glass and
admire the amazing fused glass!
It's seriously addicting!

Then start roughly other one!
I cutting the corners off this large foursquare together with added roughly dichroic glass.
Dichroic drinking glass is gorgeous, shiny together with changes color
depending on the angle you lot expect at it!