Laurie and Joel Spray
5657 Bonny Doon Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831-454-0103
Email orders to: bkpottery@aol.com
with full shipping address!
This site offers tools for glass fusers that we have found helpful in our own studio here in Santa Cruz. We have made these for our use and yours!!!!
One thing to keep in mind when viewing the hand thrown BOTTOMLESS molds.....you are buying the EXACT one in the picture...........more are added around once a week as they come out of the kiln. Sometimes there are only a few listed after a large sale so check back often!! TO READ MORE ABOUT BOTTOMLESS MOLDS SEE THE LOWER SECTION...
Select From List Below (click hyperlink):
Pot Melts Pots and Stainless Steel Formers as a set
Bottomless Slumping Molds Diameter 8" and under
Bottomless Slumping Molds Diameter over 8" to 9 "
Bottomless Slumping Molds Diameter over 9" to 10"
Bottomless Slumping Molds Diameter over 10" to 12"
Bottomless Slumping Molds Diameter over 12" to 14"
Bottomless Slumping Molds Diameter over 14" to 16"
Bottomless Slumping Molds Diameter over 16"
NEW!! Scalloped Edge Bottomless Slumping Molds - all sizes
CLASSES in gorgeous Bonny Doon in the
All classes must be 50% paid for in advance.
Email for registration to bkpottery@aol.com Let me know your experience in glass and what it is you would like to learn!
Pot Melt Tutorial -- click here
(below photo contributed by Patrick Barnes of Galva, Il
Preferred Customer Program!
We highly recommend that you sign up for our Preferred Customer program. Just send us your email address even if you are not purchasing anything at the moment. By doing this you join an elite group of glass fusers and you will get the same discounts when we are running sales as our repeat customers enjoy! We promise not to provide your information to any other company ever.
Gift Certificates ......Just send us an email with the name and email or address of the person who you would like to buy a gift certificate for and we will get it right out to you!!
Contact Us - bkpottery@aol.com or call 831-454-0103
Below are examples of 18" platters and a bowl made on my new molds!
New Bottomless Molds For Fused Glass Artists!!!
You Are Going to Love Them!!
So.....what is a bottomless mold?? It is NOT the same thing as a drop ring. These molds do not have a flat lip as drop rings. They are designed to be fired directly on the shelf with varying depths and lips. Some are bowls, plates, platters.....
What is different is that you will always have a FLAT bottom therefore no rocking in your finished piece. Your pieces will also not be like the next guy who is using mass produced molds!!
Laurie is hand throwing our new and exciting molds out of a specially formulated high fire clay. We are very tired of mold companies selling bisqueware molds which are made for the low fire clay community and are unsuitable for fused glass. The worst part of commercial molds are the rocking bottoms and cracking after only a few uses. With our new bottomless molds, your kiln shelf serves as the bottom molding surface for your glass art. Just kiln wash your shelf and place these molds on it and you will never have a rocking bottom again. (unless of course your shelf is uneven!!)
These molds have been sanded and fired to 1900 F degrees. Use your normal firing cycles for slumping in these molds. Of course, if your glass is thicker then slow down from your normal firing cycle!! Let the glass and the mold cool in the kiln and these molds will last for a long, long time. We are making them especially sturdy both for the sake of shipping and for the firing. Sponge off the sanding dust and then kiln wash them thoroughly before their first use. No need to prefire! Just be sure the kiln wash is thoroughly dry before use.
The molds pictured on this website are the molds you will receive. The mold pictures will be deleted when a sale is confirmed. Check back often and see what has come out of the kiln. We will vary the style and the sizes of the molds.
To order email the picture number and your shipping address. A price quote will emailed back to you asap.
You won't find molds like this anywhere else!!
Also consider adding to your order that stainless steel ring you have been longing for... and/or some pot melt pots!!!
Lingo.... OD Outside Diameter, ID Diameter of the opening for bottom of mold which on these slumping molds will be the foot, H - height, Lip - the width of the lip from opening to edge. Give these PDF's a moment or two to load.
