Cooling Clean Spun Glass

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Tom Wright, from Gingerbread and Glass on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment, I'm going to talk to you about the cooling down process of working with glass. Now, a lot of people want to be anxious, and jump the gun, and check their work out before it's totally cooled down, and I can understand that. And everybody wants to know what it's going to look like or see how they did, whether it was good or bad, but the most important thing you can do is to be patient and let it cool down. Now the cooling process is not short - it doesn't take very long for your kiln to get up to 1050 degrees, but it does take a while for it to go down to room temperature. Okay, and it's very key that is does this so the molecules come together at a slower rate so that they can be much stronger, and therefore, carry on the durability after it's done cooling. Now, if you were to take it out and the temperature were to fluctuate so quickly, the molecules would go around so rapidly, they wouldn't be able to attach to each other therefore it would be more likely to crack or break. So, by letting it cool down, you are ensuring the durability of your piece, which is one of the best things you could do for it. Take it out all cooled down. Now it should definitely be cool enough for you to put it in your hand and that's cool enough, so that should be all good."