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. 1. Fuse a 10.5 × 15.5 cm piece of Robin’s Egg Blue on a base of 3mm Clear.
2. 2. Tack fuse texture with Driftwood Gray rods—choose from two ways:

1. 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.
2. 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.

1. 5. Cut lengths of rod and arrange them on the blank. Use Glastac Gel sparingly.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Robin's Egg Blue Opalescent
000161-0030

Driftwood Gray Opalescent Rod
000132-0576

Soap Dish Slumping Mold
008981-Mold-M-Each

Accucast Aliginate 880
008712-CAST-M-EACH

Vermiculite Box Kit
008249-VERM-M-EACH

Fiber Paper
007038-PAPR-M-EACH