Shorty I did a few small projects to get the feel and see the finished project. I don't like to nip the pieces to big, the thin line of the edge of the plates are on the edge and it just seems to work out. I'm new at this but doing a small project helped a lot. All the pros on here can give you more tips, all I can say it all seems to come together with the grout. I think I'm going to use ant. white grout on the headboard but that can change LOL

OH Darn I answered this in the other thread. Walk me through this. LOL Sorry.

Mostly it is all in the feel of it. Trying to get thicker pieces of china together and working thick to thin gradually. Yes bevinpa is right it does all seem to come together in the grout. And the grinding.

I also seem to sort my china pieces and keep thicker ones together in my stash and work within those pieces for one project. I try not to jump from thick to thin unless I just HAVE to have it there and then I have to work around it. Like on the lady's garters done in gold are thick so I used a little bit thicker glass against them and then worked out to the thinner glass and more grinding.

OK I MUST get to work here. Darn I would rather play.

Chris

I find that if I butter the back of my plates with thinset I can build them up to where they are smooth with out grinding.I have even used thin china with regular tile and just add a little more to the china and usually one edge is thicker than the other.If I'm using glue I put some on the thin piece and let it dry a little and add a little more and build up this way.I am doing this on my headboards using china and glass.

Most of the time I just don't use the edges. :) I really am anal about them all being flat and I'm having a real problem with this little table I'm putting the blue/white plates on. I don't have an extensive supply of blue/white and some of it is that really thick pottery. It's giving me fits. I tried the thinset on something else where I was having that problem and I guess I didn't know what I was doing cuz it didn't really work for me. As usual, fly by the seat of my pants.

Hi, my name is Candy and I'm plate challenged. (everyone say, HI CANDY) lol

sorry...

Same issue here, I've only used plates on a few things. On the blue mirror - I refused to waste any of my flow blues so I used it all and ended up with a very 3d effect, but where they got real thick I placed the against a thick tile??? let me see if there are pics that show that...

nope, I guess not. But trust me there are some very warped looking pieces

Hi Candy!!

Warped is OK on a mirror, not so much on a table LOL. That's one reason I went to glass.

Ok,for the plate gurus-Do you have better luck with a size plate?? I tend to find lot of saucers in pretty patterns. Should I be looking for bigger plates?Maybe I'm just starting with impossible curves

Maria

Hi Shrty - I do the same thing as annie....I butter each piece (I always use thinset) and build up the thinner pieces to the level of the thicker pieces. Sometimes a plate edge will be real thin on the edge, and thicker closer to the middle. A piece like that will have more thinset on the thinner part.

I use all sizes of plates - from dinner plates down to saucers. If you're using thinset, make sure it's a fairly thick mixture - that's very helpful! With a little practice, you CAN make things level. You can do it! :)

**sigh** I guess I'll have to force myself to practice LOL

Did a VERY SMALL tray, I will post tomorrow -looks fairly flat. Only had one saucer of the pattern I wanted to use!!

Maria