Hello y'all:
I am getting back into glass... got me a nice torch and I'm beginning to add boro to my repertoire.
I share a studio with a metalsmith who has a small kiln I am able to use, but soon I'd like to have my own. Thus, I'm looking at my options in an attempt to budget.
Especially for my boro work, I think I will end up batch annealing most of my work. With the intricacies of each individual color, this simply makes more sense to me. It also seems that with batch annealing I could get a smaller kiln, since I won't have all those mandrels taking up space.
I'm looking at this guy:
https://www.riogrande.com/Product/sp...ro-kiln/703075
Assuming the beads can touch at striking temperatures (I think they can?) I could rest a small "basket" on the bottom and just load it up with beads, right? In this manner I could get a ton of beads in that small kiln with one run at only 350 watts!
Sounds too good to be true. Hoping its not.
What are y'alls thoughts?