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Odd-lot

2007-05-22T02:03:36Z

Phoenix:

Odd lot glass is limited run color. This glass can be either a color that was mismixed or a test of a new color. Some companies sell these at premium prices, others sell them at a discount.

These colors sometimes result in highly demanded colors in limited amounts that can be sold for premium prices in the future as well.

Edp

2007-05-22T02:00:43Z

Phoenix:

EDP

Effetre brand (104 COE) handpulled opaque purple glass. The glass devits easily which can generally be treated with a blast of high heat and quick cooling as you finish the bead. Etching will also reduce this effect.

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2007-05-22T01:59:29Z

Phoenix: edp

edp

Inclusions

2007-05-17T16:27:33Z

Phoenix:

Inclusions are any non glass items that are added to molten glass for inclusion in a finished piece.

Examples of items used as inclusions:

Gibson Opals

Cubic Zirconia

Silicon

Ashes

Leaf, Foil, Wire, Mesh:

Copper
Gold
Silver

-sample photographs?-

Soft glass

2007-05-17T16:19:12Z

Phoenix: added faux-boro link

Soft glass is a high [[COE]] (~90-105) glass commonly used in furnace glassblowing and for beads and jewelry. It is very prone to thermal shock (cracking) if heated or cooled too quickly.

Moretti, Effetre, Lauscha, and other "Soft" glasses are usually soda lime glass. They can be worked in an air / gas flame like a hot head or bunsen burner. Softglass is great for sculpting and bead making and solid work. Without a furnace and gloryhole it's rather hard to make elaborate hollow forms with softglass. The glass tends to be runnier and holds it heatbase much longer. Softglass is what is traditionally used in hotshops with large furnaces and gloryholes.... on a torch you're pretty much limited to rod and a few odd sizes and colors of tubing.

[[96]] [[COE]] Glass - http://www.thegldg.com/wiki/96

[[Faux-Boro]]

Faux-Boro

2007-05-17T16:16:26Z

Phoenix:

Faux Boro refers to soft glass that has similiar visual characteristics to boro glass. This is generally accomplished with a 96 coe silver glass (known as the "iris" colors) mixed with either Effetre Straw Yellow or Effetre Handpulled Light Brown. The most common Iris colors used are iris Yellow and Iris Gold.

Sample Image:

[[Image:fauxboro.jpg]]

File:Fauxboro.jpg

2007-05-17T16:13:31Z

Phoenix:

Frit

2007-05-17T15:42:47Z

Phoenix: added sample pics as per GreyMatter request

== Frit ==

Frit is glass that is in a crushed form. Frit varies in size from quite chunky pea sized pieces to sandlike consistancy.

Frit is larger than [[powder]] but smaller than [[cullet]] glass. Available in all commonly used artistic glasses, frit comes in most colors, as well as clear. Most of the major suppliers of [[soft glass]] and [[borosilicate]] glass sell frit grade glass in a variety of grades.

Application of frit can be done on the surface of a piece or on the inside of a tube if a hollow vessel is being formed. Care should be taken to fully fuse the frit if applied to the inside of a tube. Many frits are made with highly reactive colors, and will want to reduce upon application, working in the back of a good oxygen rich flame helps keep these colors stable untill they're fully fused into the surface of the glass.

Frit is usually made through a mechanical crushing operation, but can also be made by rapidly cooling hot glass in water. For small quantities a cheap thrift-store variety electric coffee grinder makes frit out of any color or combination of colors the artist needs. Commercially the frit is graded by size through a stack of sorting screens. In the studio you can sort the larger frit from powder with a kitchen strainer.

Frit should be kept away from children and never inhaled.

Sample Pictures - 96 COE Frit

Powder

[[Image:frit2.jpg]]

Size 0

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Size 1

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Size 2

[[Image:frit.jpg]]

--[[User:GreymatterGlass-66|GreymatterGlass-66]] 21:34, 16 January 2007 (EST)

File:Frit4.jpg

2007-05-17T15:41:05Z

Phoenix:

File:Frit3.jpg

2007-05-17T15:39:58Z

Phoenix:

File:Frit2.jpg

2007-05-17T15:36:07Z

Phoenix:

File:Frit.jpg

2007-05-17T15:35:12Z

Phoenix:

Soft glass

2007-05-15T16:30:28Z

Phoenix: added 96 link

Soft glass is a high COE (~90-105) glass commonly used in furnace glassblowing and for beads and jewelry. It is very prone to thermal shock (cracking) if heated or cooled too quickly.

Moretti, Effetre, Lauscha, and other "Soft" glasses are usually soda lime glass. They can be worked in an air / gas flame like a hot head or bunsen burner. Softglass is great for sculpting and bead making and solid work. Without a furnace and gloryhole it's rather hard to make elaborate hollow forms with softglass. The glass tends to be runnier and holds it heatbase much longer. Softglass is what is traditionally used in hotshops with large furnaces and gloryholes.... on a torch you're pretty much limited to rod and a few odd sizes and colors of tubing.

96 COE Glass - http://www.thegldg.com/wiki/96

96

2007-05-15T16:28:57Z

Phoenix:

96 COE glass is one of the most versatile of the soft glasses.

It is the most commonly used furnace glass coe and the glass used in most soft glass frits and frit mixes. 96 COE is used because of it's versatility - the glass is gerenally compatible in small amounts down to 86 COE and up to 104 COE.

96 COE is a misnomer for some of the below brands- they are instead 96 compatible with varying coes in the 96 range.

96 COE Brands:

Gaffer - http://www.gafferglass.com/

Reichenbach - http://www.farbglas.de/index_e.html

Kugler - http://www.kuglercolors.de/english/default_e.htm

Lauscha (vintage stock only currently)

Uroboros (System 96) - http://www.uroboros.com/

Vintage Glass - http://phoenixartsupplies.com

Zimmerman