Broken Glass Pendant With
Central Fused Cabochon

This is a fused broken glass pendant which is fused in two stages, and is made by breaking a piece of fusing glass and then fusing the broken pieces onto a base glass with frit in between the pieces of broken glass.

The art glass piece is then contour fused with a glass jewel on top to produce an original handmade art glass jewelry item.

You can use either COE 90 or COE 96 glass in this pendant. COE 90 has been used for this tutorial.

For this project, you will need the following:

One piece of clear 1 1/4 inch square fusing glass.

One piece of colored opaque or transparent 1-inch square fusing glass.

One dichroic cabochon or one glass nugget

Fine frit.

Glass cutter.

Ball pein hammer.

Glass Fusing Kiln.

Kiln washed shelf or thin fire paper.

Newspaper.

Proceed as follows for stage one:

Step 1. Cut glass to size, wash and dry completely.

Step 2. Place the one inch square glass piece between about 4 sheets of newspaper. Lay on hard surface and tap with the ball end of your hammer. You want the glass to break into individual pieces rather than shatter into small pieces.

Open the paper and leave the glass on the paper, it should not have moved much if you tapped it gently.

Step 3. Using fusing glue or white glue you are now going to stick each broken piece to the clear glass base.

Each broken piece is taken to the edge of the base glass so that there is a gap between each piece with a large gap in the middle.

Step 4. Once the glue has dried, pour fine glass frit into the center and in between each glass piece as per the photo. Brush excess frit off and place glass piece on prepared kiln shelf and load into glass fusing kiln.

You are now ready for the second stage of this tutorial.

Stage two:

Step 1. Place cabochon or nugget in center of pendant.

Step 2. Put pendant on prepared kiln shelf and load into glass fusing kiln.

Step 3 Bring temperature up slowly to about 1380 F (750 C). Hold for about 15 minutes, check to ensure that that the piece is nicely contoured.

Switch off kiln and allow to cool to room temperature and then remove your fused glass art pendant.