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I did not know until today that there are 2 sizes of dicro
Does anybody have experiance working both of these? What are the differances? Does thin burn out quickly? Im trying to get rainbow 2 and all I can get right now is the thin 1/16th inch
Thank you!
from what i've seen, it comes in 1/16" and 1/8" thick sheets. i've had great luck with the 1/8" stuff, the thinner burns out easier ime. also for some reason (and i've heard others say the same thing so i know i'm not crazy) the newer Dichroic Alchemy stuff isn't that great. i was legit addicted to the DA Starship Tical, so cool and almost every color is there. for some reason over the last few years, the quality of the S/T (i can't vouch for DA's other colors) has gone way down.
CBS has some stuff called rainbow splinter, which is pretty much the same thing as the Starship Tical, seems to hold up to abuse pretty well.
I was wondering the same thing. I got a small strip of 1/8" to start out with. I was hoping I might get less air bubbles with the 1/16". The 1/8" stuff seems to be out of stock more often I nocticed, so I figured it is more popular.
I found the thicker dichro to be *much* easier to work without burning out than the thin stuff myself.
Thick or thin the coating is the same. Really depends on how you work and what you need.
Trev's Glass Dichro is all a double coat of dicro done for us at CBS on the heavier glass
Have a lot of return customers for these 1" strips we sell here in the store
Here is some samples of what it looks like in the strips
I've been using pacific art glass, dichroic. Coating is better if you know how to activate you will never burn out