Fusing at home in the microwave.

Making "fusing" with your own hands or sintering glass, you can make glass stained glass in various shapes, thicknesses and textures. They can be used as a variety of interior elements, for example, a stained glass window or a window, in the form of inserts in the wall, like a table-top, for decorating mirrors, decorative panels. The manufactured elements, using the technology of fusing with their own hands, can be used as inserts in the door, in a window, in screens, to make decorative utensils, lampshades, architectural elements, dials for watches. Fusing stained glass windows are now very popular because they look very modern and aesthetic.

The technology of fusing refers to the oldest methods of glass processing. Repeatedly found objects from sintered glass in the burials of various peoples, as well as in Egyptian tombs.

Fusing in English means melting, sintering, melting. This concept includes a number of technologies for the processing of warm glass, performed at a temperature of 600 - 900оС.

What is fusing in the home? This is a thermal fusion, the fusion of various glass elements into a whole. The glass softens, warming up to a certain temperature, causing the parts to sinter together, practically not changing their mutual arrangement and shape.

In fact, fusing at home is that on the glass collect a picture of the conceived stained glass from various pieces of colored glass. Once the stained-glass window is laid, the glass is heated in a special oven to the desired temperature, while sintering the disparate elements into a single layer. Despite the laboriousness, fusing at home is becoming more popular, helping to create its own unique interior and serve as a source of income, being a home business.

Depending on the temperature conditions and the idea, the layers can be made spreading, or, conversely, leave them unchanged. The colors of the drawing, too, can be mixed or kept their distinct outlines. The drawing can be made convex and volumetric.

Carrying out fusing at home is important to choose the right types of glass and temperature modes of heating. Thanks to this, it is possible to achieve surprising decorative effect, as well as high strength of the finished product.

Very beautiful and impressive look works done on this technology on the mirrors.

The creation of interesting and beautiful works of glass is possible with the use of such technology as fusing, i.e. Making its sintering in a special furnace.

Modern special furnaces allow to produce a huge number of a variety of decorative panels, door leaves, and glass panels.

If fusing in a microwave oven is used, glass sintering is done in the safest and most harmless way possible at home. The glass in the microwave is melted by the stove, the temperature inside of which, with microwaves, rises to the temperatures required for fusing. Carrying out fusing in a microwave with the help of a stove is fashionable to work with different glasses. Heating furnaces for such work can give a glass a consistency similar to that of plasticine.

There are such stoves in microwave ovens with a minimum power of 800W. From a microwave it is better to remove a glass plate or turn it upside down so that it can not rotate. For the first time using the stove, it is necessary to read the instructions and warm the oven in the microwave as recommended in the instructions.

For independent work at home, you need to have: a microwave, a stove, gloves, heat-resistant fusing paper, a glass cutter and a multi-colored glass.
It is not recommended to use an oil cutter during such work , as the glass, when heated, will burst. Working with glass, you need to wear glasses to protect your eyes from debris.