luster help

[Bent]

any advice on luster application would be greatly appriciated.
I was hoping some of you old-school beaders may have played with the stuff
thanks

[glassblowingBiker]

about all i can rember is that is smells like Hell when you fire it on other than that not thinking its to good to have around in your shop based on what its made from or in it best place to call that i think some one might be able to help you more would be ED Hoys you may end up talking with ED him self he for sure will know how to work with it Peace

[steven p selchow]

Englehart corporation manufactures these. These are nasty to work with, and I've used a lot of them over the years. best advise, use latex gloves when applying, do it over or near your exhaust fan, and most important exhaust it when firing. The chemicals that suspend the color are harmful, thats why I have a vent hole in the top of my kiln with a 4 inch pipe sucking out the vapors.

After 500 degrees, the vapors burn off, and leave the color, even though you still need to fire them at 1060-1070, I leave the shop when I do this until the kiln gets past 500 degrees.

steve

[lucidvisions]

Clean piece very well with alcohol,windex, ect. Do not get oils from skin on piece as paint will not adhere. Clean brushes well. Label brushes for that color only. We use a respirator when applying them. Keep them in the fridge, they'll last longer. Use brush strokes that are parallel to hide any streaking. You can mix shades on top of eachother with multiple firings. And all that was said above by Steven. Do a search on it and I believe there's some more info here on the forum. The best we've found was the Hanovia line. Oh yah and snatch it up quick because production by BASF is being discountinued as I've heard throught the grapevine. I believe some other companies are working on replacing it.

Josh

[Bent]

thanx for help. I'm using an air-brush w/heavy ventilation. But I've been firing at about 1300 deg. I think too hot.
Peace

[lucidvisions]

Any clogging problems with the air brush? Let me know how it turns out when you fire at the lower temp, would love to know how the airbrush looks.

Josh

[The Goat]

what ya doin man? Ill hit ya up tommorow.

[Bent]

tryin to figure out links

[Bent]

http://www.glasspipes.org/Img1547I don't known if I did the link right but this is what I came up.90__Img154790_12.JPG.asphttp://www.glasspipes.org/Img154790__Img154790_12.JPG.asp
This is luster.

[somewhere]

hey looks just like Stanus Chloride I don't even know what it would do on boro but a silver bearing soda lime will get the same look. You would need a chlorine filter for your respirator if you try it.

[lsw]

I used to use it alot when I did furnace work. We would use a spray bottle to apply it and put it back in a reducing flame before putting it in the kiln. Hopefully that will help some?