Elizibeth, You dood good! I am sitting here with a great big smile. Keep me posted on what you do. The pictures look good. Here's a short review of the process. 1. Clean metal until water sheets off of it. I probably did not emphaize it very much at the shindig but this is an important step. Do not touch the surface after doing this. 2. Paint the surface of the metal with Klear Fire which holds the grains of enamel to the surface and burns away clean. 3.Apply the enamel grains by sifting or wet pack. 4.Dry well. Kiln enamelists will put it on the top of a hot kiln until dry. 5.Place on the tripod and if you have it, pointy suports of some sort. 6. Heat from underneath with the torch. 7.Stop heating when the enamel looks like orange peel. This is the counterenamel and is the back side. 8.Apply enamel to the other side and repeat. This can be repeated until desired design or effect is acheived. 9.Heat until the surface is smooth or if you like the orange peel look which I do, stop there. I'm glad that you had fun with it. marilyn
Elizibeth, You dood good! I
Elizibeth, You dood good! I am sitting here with a great big smile. Keep me posted on what you do. The pictures look good. Here's a short review of the process. 1. Clean metal until water sheets off of it. I probably did not emphaize it very much at the shindig but this is an important step. Do not touch the surface after doing this. 2. Paint the surface of the metal with Klear Fire which holds the grains of enamel to the surface and burns away clean. 3.Apply the enamel grains by sifting or wet pack. 4.Dry well. Kiln enamelists will put it on the top of a hot kiln until dry. 5.Place on the tripod and if you have it, pointy suports of some sort. 6. Heat from underneath with the torch. 7.Stop heating when the enamel looks like orange peel. This is the counterenamel and is the back side. 8.Apply enamel to the other side and repeat. This can be repeated until desired design or effect is acheived. 9.Heat until the surface is smooth or if you like the orange peel look which I do, stop there. I'm glad that you had fun with it. marilyn