Sconce Completion

This pair of sconces has now been finished and sent off to their new home.  Here's how they were completed.  Using the ground and faceted glass as a guide, we ground aluminum backings to match each piece of glass individually.

Once ground to size, holes are drilled for the light source and attachment point.

 Next, the glass was glued into place.

Here's the shade all wired up, ready to go!

Sconce Creation Part II

We're nearing completion of this sconce project, but I thought I'd illustrate some more of the intermediate steps.  When we left the sconces they had just been loaded into cone molds in our small kilns.  After running through a program which slumped the individual components and fused them together, the sconces looked like this (similar to a small lighting pendant):

 Next, I cut each of these cones in half.

Once divided in two, each half was loaded into a kiln setup that would allow the edges of the glass to be supported while the inside could deform with heat and gravity's pull.

The inside of the glass is the shape we were after, and the exterior "wings" were now just scrap.  Once they were removed, the sconce was ground down closer to its final size and shape.

Once the edges were shaped, I then faceted them so that the glass would sit flat against the aluminum backing that it will eventually be mounted on.

Stay tuned next week for the completion of our custom sized sconce project!