Well here it is, 2:35 am, sat. morning, (Texas time). I just now threw another batch of 12, 4"sq. tile in the OVEN. Yep, I bake my tile. I watched a lot of vids on U-tube and everyone is saying paint your tile, let dry for 24 hours, then add next color or coat of paint, let dry another 24 hours. 85% of my burning is multi colors topped off with black. I’m waiting 2 or 3 days for paint to dry. I’m not going to have that, so I set my oven at 200 deg. bake those bad boys for about 1-1/2 hrs. Pull when done, let cool at room temp., slap on more paint and back to the oven again. I can have a pan full of 3 color tile ready to burn in about 6 hours And I’m having fun at it. I know what your thinking, what about smell or even vapors that could be harmful. I use Krylon and Rust-oleum paints with no problem. Has anyone else tried baking your tiles?
Hello jack, With me only having about 90 days in this new hobby, they have been turning out pretty good.
I never have posted any pics yet because I feel that I’m not good enough to post yet. I guess that’s because I’m German and if it’s not perfect it’s not good. I’ll go ahead and post a few photos now for you. And I’m hoping that all you fine folks will have a lot things to teach me.
R. Cline
Go ahead and drop a couple. You’ll probably get more ‘hits’ and I’d like to see them as I’ve been trying myself on and off. I also have been doing some mirrors.
great, I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one baking. I went to longer baking time because I noticed that when I got the next layer of paint on, – that first coat would start fish eyeing or crackling as some call it. When I hit 1 to 1 1/2 hours of baking the crackling stopped. But - at the same time I also noticed that if I put on the next layer paint to thick , that would cause crackling also. So now I do my second coat real thin, wait for about 20 min. then another coat to finsh the covering and then to oven again.
Have fun R. Cline
this thread is so boring. Lots of talk, no pics. Is it something great, I dunno, haven’t seen anything yet. Any more posts without pics and this thread is going out to the cornfield!
Norton is my laser god !! I just now finished a noton tile , white painted black. Only the tile was really red and yellow with black top coat. Running at 1200 mm/m and 12% power, so I thought !! While waiting for my baking to finish, I was playing around with scrap and trying to see how slow and low I could get a good burn with. OK - baking is done. My grandson wants a skull, any kind of a skull. I made a tile painted red and yellow with black coat that not all the black would be burned away. I throw that tile under my baby ortur , hit the start button … I forgot to turn my speed and power back up. ended up with a good looking two tone gray and black skull, not a total loss. OK -HN- take a white tile, paint a heavy coat of green on it , bake that thing extra dry. then put on another coat of green, only not heavy this time. Super that dry that tile again and give it light coat of , say black. or yellow, or blue. Now go to : pinerest.com , free sign up and you can find any kind of photo you want. Pick out a flower for your lady and let’s get burning. I don’t know what speed or power you run so turn your power down just 1 or 2% to play it safe. Hit the start button and go for it. You will make a good burn, I’m sure of it.
R. Cline
I do not have a sublimation printer yet but thought about getting one for mugs and using a convection oven, would that work for baking tiles as well or would the fumes mess with the sublimation process if I use the same oven for both products. (NOT at the same time).
