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Your success in the glass studio means everything to us. To ensure that success, our Research and Education staff publishes articles that you can access for free in our article library.
These articles include:
- Quick Tips to make your studio time easier.
- Technical articles that help you create processes for reaching your intended results.
- Project ideas: Panels, vessels, three-dimensional sculptures, and more.
Bookmark this page for easy access: www.bullseyeglass.com/methods-ideas/index-of-articles and dip into a little glass reading.
If you prefer to have the information in hand, the articles can be downloaded as PDF files for printing. Pick and choose the topics that apply to your projects.
Alternatively, you can have us do most of the printing. Order the Bullseye TechBook, an assortment of over 50 articles compiled in a three-ring binder. This "living book" collection includes many (but not all) of the articles listed in our Index of Articles, and since it comes in a binder, you can later add any articles that prove helpful to your process.
TechNotes
TechNotes 1: Knowing Your Kiln
TechNotes 2: The Vitrigraph Kiln
TechNotes 3: Compatibility of Glasses
TechNotes 4: Heat & Glass
TechNotes 5: Volume & Bubble Control
TechNotes 6: Preparing the Shelf System for a Large Kiln
TechNotes 7: Monitoring Kiln Temperatures for Successful Annealing
TipSheets
TipSheet 1: Kilncarving
TipSheet 2: Accessory Glasses (Not Available)
TipSheet 3: Working Deep
TipSheet 4: Designing Your Own Art Glass
TipSheet 5: Bullseye Box Casting
TipSheet 6: Roll-Ups
TipSheet 7: Platemaking Tips (Updated February 2018)
TipSheet 8: Basic Lost Wax Kilncasting
Studio Tips
Annealing Thick Slabs: Fahrenheit and Celsius charts (Updated May 2019)
Fahrenheit and Celsius Temperature Conversions
Glass Cleaning Basics
12 Ways to Improve Your Glass Cutting
Kilnforming Project Notes Form
Pre-Firing Your New Kiln (Updated January 2019)
Recommended Annealing Cycle for Bullseye Glass
Safety in the Kiln-Glass Studio
Product Use
Alchemy Glasses (Updated July 2018)
Amaco Black Underglaze Pencil
Bullseye Brainstorm: Textures & Irids
Bullseye Shelf Primer Instructions
Color Cues (includes Introduction, Brights, Dusk, Spring Lake, and Pink Martini)
Color Line Paint & Pens Product Information
Clean Shield Gel
Drilling Small Holes in Jewelry and Ornaments
Frit Tinting
Get a Reaction: Bullseye Sulfur-Bearing Glasses
Opaline Overlays
Reactive Potential of Bullseye Glass (Updated July 2018)
Special Effects: Steel Blue Opalescent
ThinFire Shelf Paper
Tips for Using Vermiculite Board
Using Color Line Screen Paste
Using Fusible Decal Paper to Transfer Laser Printed Images (NEW)
Using Milestone Decals (Updated April 2018)
What Size French Cleat Do I Need?
What to Expect from Bullseye Glass
What to Expect from Opaline Striker Frit
Working with Accucast 880 Blue
Product Use: Bullseye Molds
Tips for Using Bullseye Slumping Molds (Updated March 2018)
Mold Tips: Big Bowl
Mold Tips: Cone Bowl
Mold Tips: Deep Form
Mold Tips: Heart Casting Mold (8976)
Mold Tips: Pyramid Casting Mold
Mold Tips: Suggested Slumping Schedules (Updated March 2018)
Product Use: Colour de Verre Molds
Colour de Verre Molds: Aralia Leaf (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Box Basics (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Branches, Pine Cones and Assorted Small Leaves(PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Cabbage Leaf (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Flaming Hearts Casting Mold (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Holiday Stars (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Large Box Molds (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Monstera Leaf (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Northwoods Maple Leaf (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Offset Pendants (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Pillow Pendants (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Rain Forest Leaf (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Simple Beads (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Simple Round Beads & Small Ring Beads (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Small Dragonflies (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Snowflakes (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Tricks of the Trade (PDF)
Colour de Verre Molds: Priming Colour de Verre Molds with Zyp Spray (PDF)
Make It Projects
Make It: Dilution Solution
Make It: Inline Plate
Make It: Linear Reaction Plate
Make It: Opaline Sushi Set
Make It: Tint Tone Plate
Quick Tips
A Riot of Effects
Alchemy Metallic Palette
Circles from Squares
Fibonacci Fade Plate
Fine Lines
Fix Surface Flaws
Fresh Color
Fresh Palette Picks
Frit Balls
Fritfetti (NEW)
Glimmering Irids
Gold-Bearing Pink Tints
Holiday Punch
Inky Blue Brush Strokes
Iridescent Squares
Keen on Green
Kilncarved Billet
Kilncast and Slumped Bowl
Little Wisp Bowls (NEW)
Making a Chevron Design
Multitasking Molds
On the Edge with Transparents (NEW)
Opaline Overlays (NEW)
Opaline Ring
Powder Power
Raise the Bar on Your Soap Dish
Reaction Action (NEW)
River Rock Reaction
Silver Stripe Jewelry
Smooth It Out (NEW)
Stripes and Dots
Tint Overlay Palette
Working with Petrified Wood
Legacy Guides
(These guides are no longer being updated. For more recent updates, see About Our Glass.)
GlassTips: Opalescents
GlassTips: Transparents
TorchTips: Opalescent and Transparents
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