Quick Tip: Raise the Bar on Your Soap Dish
Add an accent color—and functionality—to your new soap dish with a little help from Bullseye fusible rods!
We paired Robin’s Egg Blue Opalescent (000161-0030) with Driftwood Gray rod (00132-0576), but you could use any combination.
The Details
- 1. Fuse a 10.5 × 15.5 cm piece of Robin’s Egg Blue on a base of 3mm Clear.
- 2. Tack fuse texture with Driftwood Gray rods—choose from two ways:
Rods for Dots
- 3. Make dots by snipping rod into 8-10mm lengths, standing the pieces on end on either a primed shelf or ThinFire (which we especially like for opals). Fire as fast as possible to 1500°F (816°C) for 20 minutes and crash cool and arrange dots in the center of the fused blank.
- 4. We tack fused this piece at 1375°F. Remember to anneal for twice the thickness of the thickest area, following the Annealing Thick Slabs chart.
Rods for Ridges
- 5. Cut lengths of rod and arrange them on the blank. Use Glastac Gel sparingly.
- 6. We tack fused this piece at 1400°F, again with an annealing cycle for twice the thickness of the thickest area. This higher temperature softens the cut ends of the rod and tacks them securely to the base.
- 7. Slump into Soap Dish Mold (8981). The heatwork of this slump firing maintains the tack-fused texture. Again, we anneal for twice the thickness of the thickest area.
Kilncasting Supplies
Accucast Aliginate 880
008712-CAST-M-EACH
Vermiculite Box Kit
008249-VERM-M-EACH
Fiber Paper
007038-PAPR-M-EACH