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Well...what a week! I've been fatiguing to get around to this tutorial for days but as ordinary work and the breath of life got on top of me! January is supposed to be a moderate month but the fronting has proven to be the covering this year. Let reliance things get back to analogical soon! I'm laboring on a great new rank of dichroic glass jewellery, I'll have pics next duration!


Anywho.. First things first!Glass donuts are not difficult to do but ...as with so many things in the vital spark, you need the not crooked equiptment!For my lection you will need-
A borer press....you can buy a agreeable to reason for £30/$60, nothing momentary blaze!

Diamond heart drill...2 sizes, one around 35mm and another roughly a moiety to a third the size, around 14mm
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This way is great for using up all your scrap/mis-shapes and the big thing is that it's a bulky way of recycling because not only can you bring into being dichroic cabs whilst you're formation the donuts but the scrap you bring into being can be used again to create more donuts.
Firstly you exigency to fire a slab from which you cut the donuts. I use hot damz and put into order them in a square. If you're not conversant with them, they're kiln household goods you can use to build dams to sway the thickness of pieces as they fire.
Fill the quadrilateral and equiangular with scrap but don't over fill. You want the largely fused slimy to be around 1/4 twelfth part of a foot thick, any thicker and the fired donut will let slip through the fingers it's shape. If you're using dichroic glass scrap try and keep...

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