Melting glass diy

Everybody notices elegantly fashioned glass art. Often times the skill and craftsmanship that is poured into these divine items are often overlooked. Glass is universally understood as fragile, very breakable and needs to be melted down before molding. This fact should not frighten a novice glass worker away.

How to use a microwave kiln to melt and fuse glass for jewelry in your microwave.

Plus tips to improve your glass melting techniqueGlass art can add a decorative touch to your home in the form of vases, trays, centerpieces, and more. You can create your own glass art by melting down old bottles that have accumulated in...

We all know that recycling is important, and melting glass bottles at home is one creative way to go about it. The glass bottles can be melted down to make jewelry, window panes or other works of art. To melt glass successfully and safely, you must own a kiln.

Flattened wine bottles can be used as personalized wall art or elegant serving trays, and the bottle art also make a unique gift for friends or family.

Yes, you read that right. Melted shot glasses can be used to make pretty wind chimes! Or, suncatchers, as one "helpful" commenter wrote. "These are not true CHIMES." Tomato, tomahto, but I understand the distinction. Ahem. They're fun and easy to make and look so pretty when they're done. The look almost like glass and they have a merry plastic clink to them. And they sure are pretty! I got the plastic shot glasses at our local Dollar Tree. I bought all the colors! Using an old cupcake pan I…

Everybody notices elegantly fashioned glass art. Often times the skill and craftsmanship that is poured into these divine items are often overlooked. Glass is universally understood as fragile, very breakable and needs to be melted down before molding. This fact should not frighten a novice glass worker away.

Make Glass Beads From Broken Bottles (+video): Make sure to check out my blog! Her's a video I made that shows you how to make some pretty nice beads from a couple of shards of blue glass. If you want to learn more about this kind of art, it's called "lampworking". There are scores more …

New Mexico Clay's tutorial on glass casting in a clay mold. Fire the clay mold 100 degrees hotter than you plan to use it.I fired the bottle glass to 1600 de...