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Glass fusing schedule: How to program your kiln

I've been acquirement a few questions from associate glass-experimenters about fusing schedules and programming your kiln. I perceive that any tutorial about glass fusing has to argue scheduling, but I've been avoiding penmanship about it for 2 reasons: one is that I don't see through all the facets of scheduling and if you call upon WarmGlass you'll apprehend what I mean, nation are discussing scheduling there in overwhelming detail; and one is that each kiln is so not the same that the same schedule would never act for the same kiln, same piece, same environment.

I default to post some guidelines about what I do and my own document, but if you're fusing, please ordeal with your kiln and tweak this document depending on your own environment.

First, some things to keep in spirit:
1. Make confident your kiln seals suitably, that it's level on the cover with a floor, that the vibrations of the coils don't move the glass inner part too much (twice I've opened the kiln to find the limpid top fused to the SIDE of my bit, because it shifted during the program or ferocious of the piece.)

2. Keep your loads resembling. Try not to mix frit with alike-size layers, sole layer pieces with pieces that have lots of layers, etc. This is not a mastery that I live by often, as you can see from my pictures, but when you're lawful starting out and you don't be sure of your kiln yet, it can be useful.

3. Get to understand your kiln. You will make "mistakes" and mistake your needs. I have a goblet full of rejects on my slab and maybe I'll inscribe about it soon and show you what went wrongful with each piece.

4. Be able to endure. Anneal your be in action properly, don't trifle it. You want that bit to be strong and last prepetually. I've seen scheduled that last 4 hours and I have no essence how people do it. I wouldn't barter or buy a piece that was not annealed fitly.

That said, here' my of little or no worth schedule:

Appearance 1:
600 degrees per twenty-fourth part of a day to 1100 degrees. No clutch.

Phase 2:

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