glow glass?

[cody]

I recently got some glow powder from Mountain glass arts and can't figure out how to use it. I've tried using it mixed with other color powder and just straight glow powder. Mostly, I've just been trying to pull stingers with it by gently rolling clear rod over the powder then tapping off the excess, but every time it just turns into a weird looking stringer that doesn't glow. Any tips on working with this stuff would be much appreciated because I've never had any experience with it at all and don't know much about it.

[pacosaki]

I have not used it much, but I was told to roll your hot glass on the powder then mix the powder into the glass real good before pulling stringer.
I did this and I got some stringer that glows in the dark.

[menty666]

the stuff cooks out really easily. I think glow glass had some pretty good directions on their site on how to work it, and I know there's at least one video up on youtube. But yeah, it's finicky. Try treating it like dichro, IOW, encased and not in the flame.

[Skye Perry]

This is how I pull it into stringer take a peice of 10mm clear and push a maria on the end .Then heat the maria and drop onto the powder without applying pressure and then trap with a peice 0f 5 or 6 mm rod repeat this about 3 or 4 times .Now take the maria with glow powder trapped in it and switch the axis and punty up to both sides heat and mix for 30 to 45 seconds and pull .It is important to do this fast and in one manuver to not burn out the powder with to much heat . I have only got a couple of the colors to work this way the green and the aqua . There is somthing with the orange and purple that just dosn't like the heat of boro .Good luck I hope this helps.

[VinE]

roll it on a rod and encase it in a tube.
work it cold like dichro.
green is the only glow color i know of that doesn't burn out.
there is supposedly some new stuff that is more compatible than the old stuff.

[rsimmons]

I've rolled a white base in the powder, then encased with clear or light aquamarine. The yellow-green and blue both worked pretty well. The blue powder gives off a nice sort of cherenkov radiation blue in the glass.

Robert

[MUPH]

I roll a gather into the powder. Encase the whole gather, then mix completely. I've only worked it a few times but that's what worked for me. Work it cook as mentioned before.

[cody]

Thanks for the tips. I really didn't know what type of flame or flame atmosphere to work it in, even though some instructions came with it; but they failed to mention any thing about that and basically just said not to dump it down a tube like with frit or color powder. I had some of the orange color, which I haven't gotten to work without burning it out, but I also had some green that I pulled some decent stringers out of, after I treated it like I was working dichro.

Thanks peace