Glass Melting & Color Formulation

2019–ongoing

Mixing and melting of custom color for casting and glassblowing furnaces. 

An interest in glass color formulation turned into a welcome rabbit hole:

Translating a  crucible clay body into slip for casting;

Ram-press moldmaking for faster crucible production—a 3-D modeled and CNC milled hexagonal design in two sizes;

Batch mixing clear recipes from scratch, testing their casting quality, and choosing one as a color base;

Lost-wax castings of bunnies to demonstrate volume color in a range of 3mm—3in thickness. These "test tiles" provide information for future adjustment of dopant percentages.