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Welcome to Fused Glass Source, the Internet's source for high quality discount priced Bullseye fusing glass and System 96 fusible glass as well as other glass fusing supplies. NO Sales Tax (except for New Mexico residents)! We strive to offer the best value and efficient service on the web! We pride ourselves in taking special care to ship supplies and especially glass with virtually no breakage to our customers! Read some testimonials from satisfied customers. Our web site design is easy to navigate, not flashy. We do not supply a glass fusing supplies print catalog, but our web catalog's layout makes it easy to print each category listing. PLEASE read our NAVIGATION TIPS before proceeding to our catalog! |
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Welcome to Glass Fusing, also known as Kiln-formed Glass, Warm Glass, Kiln-crafting, Kiln Casting and sometimes Hot Glass. Glass fusing is an art that utilizes a temperature controlled kiln to melt layered colored glass together (usually 2 or 3 layers) at about 1500F degrees to create panels, plates, bowls, cabochons, bracelets, earrings, sculpted objects, etc. Glass that is used in kiln-forming should be "tested compatible" with other glass from the same manufacturer(s) to ensure that the finished glass piece doesn't contain "stress" and break. Some of the different glass components used in warm glass are sheet glass, noodles, stringers, rods, frit, and dichroic glass. Types of colored sheet glass include opalescents (solid), transparents, and mixes such as streakies. Coatings available for glass include dichroic (very intense colored metallic finish, expensive) and iridescent (less intense colored metallic finish, inexpensive). Rods, noodles and stringers are long slim pieces of glass that resemble fettucini or spaghetti and are used as accents as well as arranged into stripes for intricate design. Frits are used as accents as well as used for glass casting and "painting". |
Kiln firing can create three types of texture effects: tack fuse, contour fuse, or full fuse. A tack fuse will leave the finished glass piece with the least deformation (least rounded edges) between layers. A contour fuse allows definition between layers but has soft, rounded edges. A full fuse creates a flat, smooth single layer of glass with no distinction between layers. Slumping is the process of adding form to a flat fused piece by melting the glass into or over a mold to give it a three dimensional look. Kilns used in glass fusing require at least a pyrometer and infinite switch or a digital or electronic temperature controller. This is just a introductory primer for the artist new to glass fusing. Enjoy browsing our catalog pages and check out our discussion boards, glass artist link page and consider selling your new finished pieces in our new e-mall. More fun resources
below from our friends at Spectrum Glass - System 96 and Bullseye Glass
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NEW! Over $150/5% and over $300/10% discount & no glass surcharge for hobby sheets*!We now offer an online quantity discount of 5% and 10% for all items in the catalog (excluding kilns). The cart will figure your discount while you are shopping! Enjoy. Exclusions: Applies to purchases only. Not given for "out of stocks" or backordered items. Not applicable to kilns. Online orders only. No phone orders. Also, you can now enjoy buying our popular hobby sheets without the usual $5.00 glass surcharge! *Note: Orders subtotaling under $30.00 will be assessed a $3.00 minimum order processing fee. Orders containing any sheet glass larger than the hobby sheets will be assessed the normal glass surcharge. |
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| IMPORTANT Navigation Tips for our Web Site: ABOUT NAVIGATING OUR SITE: Each category link below goes to a product list which includes basic information such as item #, name, and price. If you want more information and/or pictures, click on the "details" or "picture" link in the same row. If you don't see the details you want, just scroll down a little and they will come into view. ABOUT OUR SHOPPING CART: This web site's shopping cart features a convenient checkout process for a quick online shopping experience. Once you reach the payment/billing page, you will be in the secure area of our cart system. If you would prefer not to submit your credit card online, there is an option for that. Your browser must accept "cookies" in order to use our cart system. Our cart system does NOT permanently save or process your credit card. We will manually process your credit card once we pull and pack your order. You must use the "buy" buttons on the catalog listing pages to buy an item as there are no "buy" buttons on the detail/picture pages. From time to time, we offer discount(s) or specials on products that cannot be picked up by the cart system. In these cases, you will see the regular prices when ordering and we will apply any discounts when processing your order. FRAUD SECURITY NOTICE: As there has been quite a bit of news of late about ID/credit card fraud regarding brick/mortor and online retailers, we wanted to let you know what we do to insure that your information remains safe. First, our company's customer records reside on an internal computer network that has not and will not have any access to the internet at any time, so it is safe from cyber hackers. Second, to combat fraudulent online ordering, we reserve the right to collect and examine the IP address of any customer who we may want to verify the location from which he/she placed their order. Third, again, our cart system does not permanently save or process your credit card and we will manually process your credit card just like we would for a phone order. Important Notice: We have found that our cart system is not compatible with some personal firewall settings provided by the Norton Internet Security Program. You may be able to adjust or disable the firewall on the program and try again. We have a non-cart enabled secure order form or printable orderform that you can fax to us: www.fusedglasssource.com/printable.html. If you can't do that, you may call in your order during our office hours. Thank you. You may use the cart's fax/mail form or use our old printable blank order form if you would like to call, send or fax the order to us. Our fax number is 1-505-534-0213. If would just like to have an order form to write down what you would like to order while you are browsing our catalog, click on the link. Click here for the old printable blank order form. |
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NOTE: Your order will be shipped generally within one to two business days (except Friday) if requested item(s) are currently in stock. We reserve the right to ship items together or separately (with no additional shipping charge) if we have most of the items in stock and are waiting on receipt of an expected item within a week of receipt of buyer's order(s). We will notify the buyer of any delay or possible back orders on items if the delay is expected to be over a week. At that time, the buyer can decide if he/she would like his/her order to ship without the missing item(s) and back order the item(s). If the buyer chooses to receive the back-ordered item(s) separately, we will process the item under a new receipt and reserve the right to charge additional shipping when we ship the back ordered item. If we cannot contact the buyer in person regarding the missing items, we will ship what we have on hand and not backorder the missing item(s). RATES: We charge a shipping rate based on the total weight (including oversized items) and destination zip code for all orders. Online orders under $30.00 are assessed a $3.00 processing charge. Orders that include sheet glass will also be assessed a $5.00 glass shipping surcharge per order ($10.00 for XL sheets). This shipping rate only applies to the continental US only and is for UPS ground service or USPS Priority Mail only and we reserve the right to choose the carrier. Orders that must be sent outside of the continental US cannot be calulated online. Canadian orders are shipped standard UPS and do not include any tariffs or duty taxes that may be assessed. Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico orders are shipped via USPS Priority Mail on Fridays and we charge you based on what the Stamps.com website calculates based on our closest weight estimate to the nearest pound. Therefore our shipping charges may be off somewhat from actual rates incurred. Sorry, we do not ship to APO/FPO military addresses. All phone orders will be assessed a $3.00 processing charge and we will not be able to give accurate shipping costs at the time of the order, sorry. If you must know what we will charge for shipping at the time of ordering, you must use our online shopping cart to place your order. UPS Change of Delivery Address Fee: United Parcel Service charges the shipper a $5.00 redirection request fee if either the receiver or shipper requests a change of delivery destination while shipment is in transit. If the customer requests a change in the delivery destination from UPS and it is different than the delivery address requested when ordering, the customer agrees to reimburse Stained Glass Source, Inc. for the $5.00 fee. Stained Glass Source, Inc. will debit the customer's credit card the following month if notified by UPS that this redirection request fee was assessed. |
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