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Originally Posted by RSimmons
It doesn't really exist. There are all sorts of claims and conspiracy theories about flame annealing but the bottom line is that the only way to properly anneal glass in with a kiln.
Robert
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Originally Posted by menty666
Yup, it's a bit of a misnomer. You can "flame anneal" to bring the stress to a fairly reasonable level in order to get the piece to simmer down on a molecular level enough assemble stuff, but it's still in a pretty chaotic state of existence.
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Originally Posted by kandice
Yep - no such thing. I think a better term for that is bathing - the process of slowly cooling a bead in the outer flame to get the glow to go down before popping it into a heated kiln.
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Careful now....you'll get Brad all riled up again:
http://lampworketc.com/forums/showth...lame+annealing
Of course we were all talking about beads and he went off on some other tangent.
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