Using Bent Glass Stringers On A
Fused Glass Jewelry Pendant

Using glass stringers as a design feature, the base art glass is firstly fully fused and then the stringer is contour fused to the base glass.

You may need to play around with bent glass stringers until you have the shape you like.

You can change the colors and sizes around to suit yourself.

To make this art glass pendant you will need the following:

Two pieces of black Bullseye glass.

One piece of white stringer.

Thin fire shelf paper or kiln washed shelf.

Candle or butane torch.

Step 1. Cut two pieces of black glass about 1 1/4 inch square.

Step 2. Clean and dry glass completely.

Step 3. Place one piece of glass on top of the other and then place on a kiln shelf and put into your glass fusing kiln, bring kiln up to fusing temperature quickly and hold for about 10 minutes.

Step 4. Follow the instructions in the following video and bend the stringer to shape. You can experiment with different shapes until you are satisfied.

Step 5. Check to ensure black glass has fused and is nicely rounded. Switch off and allow fused glass to cool down to room temperature.

Step 6. Place stringer on fused glass and put on kiln shelf and place in the glass fusing kiln. Bring temperature to about 1380 - 1440 (750 - 780 C) this is about the right temperature for contour fusing.

Watch this process carefully as you do not want the stringer to begin to melt into the base glass.

Begin to check at about 1300 F (704).

The stringer should retain its basic shape with the top of the stringer becoming nicely rounded as per the photo.

When the stringer has fused, turn off the kiln and let it cool to room temperature.

Step 7. Using a piece of sand paper roughen an area on the back of the fused glass jewelry pendant and using epoxy adhesive glue a pendant bail to the glass.

Different glass colors and shapes allow you to make some very unique pieces of fused glass art jewelry.

A larger base can be drilled and a jump ring fitted rather than gluing on a pendant bail.

Using glass powder painted art glass is another option that will provide a striking contrast for a stringer pendant.

Note. For fully fused stringer pendant see Glass Stringer Pendant for further details.