u/Noldley

Help with single layer fusing

Hello everyone! I'm fairly new to glass fusing, and I'm really trying to get single layer fusing to work, but I keep getting separation. I've attached the schedule I used to fire and a pic of the results. The only thing I MIGHT have messed up was not changing step 5 from 960 to 950 since I'm using system 96 glass. Would a 10 degree difference do this? I haven't tried changing the temp and refiring because I'm getting frustrated and feeling like I'm just wasting glass.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Here's the firing schedule:

https://preview.redd.it/abany1x23b1h1.png?width=570&format=png&auto=webp&s=82e4383317e65df9d1a6e61e0007d69b634df23b

Here are my results. The gaps in the before picture aren't accurate. I made sure things were generally tight/touching.

Before:

https://preview.redd.it/ulxvhanl3b1h1.png?width=314&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbdcc226279226704ce6d1d846e250b0e5379b4e

After:

https://preview.redd.it/l4z86dtd3b1h1.png?width=476&format=png&auto=webp&s=16a7d47524002c8331ebee40890ff9cb9e1d74bd

Before:

https://preview.redd.it/rtedb6uu3b1h1.png?width=319&format=png&auto=webp&s=914fcf4e54a273712dc6472974ed48e0f188cfbd

After:

https://preview.redd.it/k8j948yx3b1h1.png?width=419&format=png&auto=webp&s=99bb6e2e74c324e5203d67da8f9fbe84234c40f7

This is closer to what I was expecting, but still not great:

https://preview.redd.it/uzkr7wk94b1h1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=49a40337f8e0c2091f54fbcf632b0ccd6def427b

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u/Noldley — 7 days ago