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Tufa Under Fire

gottatufa
19 years ago

Peak and I were experimenting with heating tufa to invent a tufa firering which may or may not work out. This is still in the research stage. I did manage to place a large piece of tufa in a campfire and burned it out really good to see what would happen. It became very brittle, like dry cake. I brought a piece home cause I liked how it looked. It a few months, it rehardened somehow, I could not break it. My mind started going....(scarey)

I also work in hot glass and have kilns. Thought, "wonder how much temperature this tufa can take?" I fired it up to 1450 f. Here it is at 1350f before all the organics burned out and turned it white.

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Then I thought, "I wonder if I can slump a piece of glass on top?"

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It worked! So I chipped out the tufa, and got the glass out.

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And here it the final product! {{gwi:75329}}This means, tufa can and will be used as a mold for my glass work. Cool, Huh!

Jo

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