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zgeniez
11-12-2006, 10:25 PM
COE 104 (https://secure-checkout70.monstercommerce.com/2688164116/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODGROUP&ID=16)
phazzoo
11-13-2006, 12:43 PM
I don't understand your post. The link takes you to a soft glass site...... did you realize that?
Udai Hussien
11-13-2006, 01:22 PM
that site has certificate issues, this looks like Spam to me
Cosmo
11-13-2006, 01:30 PM
It's not spam. It's that Double Helix glass. I've never used it, but apparently it's hand pulled soft glass that has silver mixed in so it strikes. Very expensive, but very popular among the soft glass bead crowd...
Abe Fleishman
11-13-2006, 01:45 PM
This color is a high bread glass formulation to minic boro. It is a very nich market. The price is very high but it is the bomb.
Abe
Udai Hussien
11-13-2006, 01:48 PM
Im not saying it was spam, I just noticed that it had a certificate issue, and for some reason, Spyware doc goes berserk when I click it
zgeniez
11-13-2006, 07:47 PM
ya, I noticed all those things too...just thought it was interesting. Not spam...I just hadn't seen that stuff before. I'm glad I don't work soft glass or I'd probably want to blow all my money. ~zac~
richsantaclaus
11-13-2006, 10:30 PM
I specalize in soft glass. That site is real. It costs that much because it IS hand pulled and made specially for us soft glass people. I have made a few marbles with it and it acts like all other 104 glass but has a better color range depending on how you work it in the flame. Usuallt, because it is so expensive for soft glass, I make twisties with it.

Rich
jcherrellglass
11-14-2006, 11:15 AM
It's rocking glass! I love it and swear by it. It used to be almost impossible to get but it's a little more reasonable now. Not only is it handpulled but some colors are even annealed and kiln struck.
pyrorob05
11-14-2006, 07:07 PM
i thought all glass rods were "hand pulled"
somberbear
11-14-2006, 10:00 PM
not all .... there are alot of places going to machine pulled....

isnt GA machine pulled? and well clear is all extrution..... heck i even saw a few cane making machines some where.. and i think the chienese color is machine pulled.....

i think soft would be easier to machine pull.... then boro...

i wanna see some one pull quartz color... that would be entersting...

peace
rob
UmaJulz
11-15-2006, 12:09 PM
Yeah, it's such a hot item that when it came out it was "only" $60 a pound. Wish I would have bought a pound then, in April. Now it's $100, and there are other new pricey silver glasses out, at about the same price R4Glass (http://www.fineartbyrocio.com). Some of them, like ASK color, Lauscha Supernova, are still in the $35/lb range, about the same as other 'regular' handpulled 104.