I line my vitrigraph with our 1 mm paper for an easy cleanout and easy to save the bit of beautiful glass in the bottom of the pot!!

Using our Stainless Steel Vitrigraph Pots

This is not a lesson on how to pull cane but just a few notes on using our new Stainless Steel Vitrigraph pots.

* Put a nice solid layer of kiln wash onto the floor of your kiln before firing. No need to dry.  It will dry plenty during the firing.

line the stainless with 1 mm paper like I do ……..or zyp……

*I always put a piece or two of clear across the bottom hole if I am filling the pot with scrap

*If you are using full squares of glass just leave a 1/4 open space around the squares……  seems to make them melt a bit better…..so if your pot is 5 x 5" cut your squares 4 1/2".

*Plug the bottom of your kiln with a piece of fiber blanket while heating up the kiln.  This gives you a better even heat throughout the pot.

*Always vacuum your kiln after any vit firing.  A little piece of glass that gets on your brick can just eat a hole in a couple of firings. Vacuum the coils and the floor.

Hope you love using our new pots.  …Most important of all.....  HAVE FUN!!!!!

NEW!!!

Customers have been asking us for a Bottomless Vitrigraph Pots where they can use fiber board as the base.  This way you can change the hole to the sizes for a particular project.  After cutting your hole use some fine sandpaper to get loose particles off. I have been adding a piece of 1 mm fiber paper (same paper we have on our site for crackle) I cut the hole slightly larger than the hole in the fiberboard.   It protects your fiberboard to use many many times . We carry the fiber board in 6" squares.      In a small or narrow kiln it is easier to get this positioned into the kiln making sure your holes lines up with the hole in the kiln and then load it . It can be awkward trying to keep it together if you load it and then try to move it to the kiln. On a tall stack I place the fiber board in the kiln.....load the stack of glass....and then slip the prepared Bottomless Vit over it. Best to line your pot with 1mm.

Fiberboard 6/6 -  1- $12.00  

Fiberboard 6/6-  2/ $22.00