How do you seal two pieces of glass together?
I went to a art show,and they made these beutiful glass bird baths with glass vases,and a glass dish for the bath. They wouldn’t say how to seal the glass togather.They said it was their secet.Does anyone here know?
Gunship
on February 8th, 2012
possibly melding ends and pieces in a pattern together in kiln with special glass resin,
http://www.latimerglass.com/pb/wp_9df692...
http://glassart.wordpress.com/2007/05/12...
or a very strong ceramic (krazy) glue for mosaic patterns as well, yet may not be strong enough to hold weight,
ProBond China & Glass Cement
http://www.elmers.com/GlueGuide/
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Gideeup
on February 8th, 2012
They must melt them together in a very high temperature oven.
ReadyToLaunch
on February 8th, 2012
go to an aquarist /diy shop you want silicone sealer.
Xfactor
on February 8th, 2012
They melt it.
Fractalfallout
on February 8th, 2012
glue gun, epoxy, or melt them together (which I don’t recomend because every time I’ve tried, it cools too fast and shatters) good luck, wear safety glasses.
-edit- i believe melting it together is probably the way they did it but the secret is somewhere in how they cool it down slowly.
-edit, again- i just remembered, maybe liquid salt bath… google that.
-…and once more- http://www.keidel.com/design/select/sink... read the part about annealed glass
TotallyChilled
on February 8th, 2012
yeh ive seen it too. i read it somewhere that they heat n melt it n then add very small quantities of silica n stuff like that. it helps to shape the glass easily n the glass retains its shape because it cools slowly.
PassionForDance
on February 8th, 2012
Try unsticking wet glass (sort of joke)
Tuskey
on February 8th, 2012
did they use the same technique used for connecting pieces of stain glass together? I don’t know much about it, but I think they use a metal like lead. I believe they use strips of it and then melt the metal between the pieces of glass and they connect like glue would connect them.
pandatome
on February 8th, 2012
I’ve worked in stained glass as a hobby.
1) There is glass fusing where you bring the glass to the melting point in a kiln and then slowly slowly cool it. The larger the piece the more fraught with peril if the glass cools slightly faster in one place than another.
2) Since much commercial glass is a cooler melting glass you can fuse it with a propane flame. That’s how you build hummingbirds for sale. Propane flame and glass rods to melt and streach/form/add mass.
3)There is also a special glass adhesive that is used for glass sculptures. It has the same optical density as glass so that it becomes (almost) invisible after it is cured by UV light.
If there was no obvious deformation at the join, I’d guess they use the adhesive.
Guineapig
on February 8th, 2012
as the last answerer says you can get special adhesive for bonding glass. my brother works for a company which sells it. LOCTITE U.V. ADHESIVE http://www.crlaurence.com it dries water clear.
Orchid
on February 8th, 2012
yes but that is a secret too