Home | Bevels | Bevel Clusters | Box Parts | Glue Chip Clusters | Glass Pattern CDs | Glass Books | Caulk
Chemicals  | Clarity Products  | Diamond Heads  | Foil  | Foiling Devices | Hot Glass | Gift Certificate
Glass | Glass Cutters | Grinders | Jewels & Nuggets | Lamp Making | Lead Came | Lead Tools
Morton Systems | Mosaic Supplies | Oak Frames | Pliers | Saws | Soldering Supplies | Miscellaneous | Links

Previous Page

FREE SHIPPING on all sales over $285
within contiguous United States only

Due to the high cost of shipping a $2.50 surcharge will be added to all purchases of $25.00 or less.

Shipping Cost:
orders to: $39.99 ...........$8.95
$40 - $59.99 ...........$9.95
$60 - $99.99 ..........$13.95
$100 - $124.99 ..........$15.95
$125 - $174.99 ..........$19.65
$175 - $234.99 .........$24.95
$235 - $284.99 ............$28.95
DHL Ground - No Box Charges

Hawaii, Alaska, APO/FPO, Territories and foreign countries
please call or email Cathedral Stained Glass
( support@cathedralstainedglass.com )

Fusibles 5

Dichroic FireSticks Bracelet Making Instructions

FireSticks by Pacific Art Glass, Fabrication by Donna Maryanski, Technique by Jayne Persico, Text by Maureen James
(Glass Pattern Quarterly, Winter 2002, Vol 8, No 4)

These bold bracelets are made from layering FireSticks on Black Uroboros glass. Blanks are made at full fuse at around 1450º. The Firesticks are then placed on that piece and taken to a tack-fuse at approximately 1375º. This is placed on the mold and brought to a bending temperature of around 1290º

Firesticks are available in twenty different colors and patterns. Custom runs are also available in other sizes as well as different shapes such as Fireflys and Spirals. All of these shapes are cut with waterjet and firepolished. They are also available in COE 90 for use with Bullseye glass.

Donna says "Give me a FireSticks and I'll find something to fuse with it. It is those impossible to cut, beautiful, little, Dichroic glass pieces that have inspired my best work".


Cut Bracelet Blanks & FireSticks

1


Firing bracelet blank

2


Choosing the right FireSticks from the vast variety of dichroic colors could be the hardest part

3


Break FireSticks to length of bracelet blank

4


Lay out FireSticks to fused blank

5


Second firing. Tack-fuse FireSticks to blank

6


Third firing. Balance work on mold for slumping

7


After bracelet slumps down, use graphite tongs to create curve of bracelet on the left

8


...and on the right

9


Cooling

Go back to the Top of the Page

-->

Fusibles Page 4

Main Hot Glass Page