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This #residency has reminded me how much I love emptying furnaces. To remove every last bit of glass out of a #furnace pot, we make these glass mops, pushing the glass around on the floor and quenching it into buckets of water to get more. The mop gets bigger an bigger until you can't lift it without bending the rod its on, or you cannot fit it into the furnace door. Then you start another mop.
The water buckets meanwhile furiously boil as they get filled with mops of once molten glass.
In its first melt, the furnace isn't fully tuned, so my charge schedule was cold and fast. We wanted 2300F but the furnace could only muster 1970F. This makes the glass take longer between charges. I was adding 7.5 pound brown paper bags full of batch at about an hour interval between charges.
While the glass didn't fully melt between charges like it is supposed to, even partially melted it was a gorgeous brown.
Sean is arriving now- hopefully tomorrow we have a full pot of #glass
#residency #nyc
