Introduction ('Home')
Thermal Imaging Photographs
Woodpile and Ash Pits
Covering the Pot Furnace
Photographs of Pots
Photographs of Glass Waste
Photographs of Glass Vessels
Many of the glass vessels blown during the first few days cracked or broke due to thermal shock.
This was eventually sorted out and some of the complete examples are shown.
One problem was the development of a whitish deposit on the surface of the vessels. With prolonged exposure (and particularly when the softening point of the glass was reached), the deposit fused with the glass to form a matt surface (potash in the wood ash?). The effects of reaching the softening point is also seen in the bent necks of the tall phials and in the distorted shoulder of one of the oil flasks. Another problem experienced was iron scale from the nose of the blowing iron contaminating the glass. This shows up as small black specks and dark green streaks, particularly in the lip and neck of the vessel. |
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"If you build it, they will come."