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

*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 .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