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Glass fusing schedule: How to program your kiln

I've been acquisition a few questions from comrade glass-experimenters about fusing schedules and programming your kiln. I make out that any tutorial about glass fusing has to deliberate scheduling, but I've been avoiding handwriting about it for 2 reasons: one is that I don't apprehend all the facets of scheduling and if you go to see 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 scrap, same environment.

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

First, some things to keep in spirit:
1. Make assured your kiln seals fitly, that it's level on the put a floor on, that the vibrations of the coils don't move the glass interior too much (twice I've opened the kiln to find the light top fused to the SIDE of my bit, because it shifted during the program or vandalic of the piece.)

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

3. Get to know your kiln. You will bring into being "mistakes" and misapprehend your needs. I have a goblet full of rejects on my slab and maybe I'll scratch about it soon and show you what went unfair with each piece.

4. Be able to endure. Anneal your act properly, don't trifle it. You want that part to be strong and last ever. I've seen scheduled that last 4 hours and I have no pattern how people do it. I wouldn't vend or buy a piece that was not annealed suitably.

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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