Thanks for putting the pictures out there!!
Did you buy your glass from the "lampworking-tools" guy on Ebay? I bought some on a buy it now yesterday and I'm still waiting for a total shipping price from them. I'm glad to hear your thoughts on it. I'm just starting to use boro and figured while I'm learning to work with it, cheap is better!
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All of these were made with this mercadante glass.
All of them except #1 and #6 were were made with silver strike 5 small frit.
1 - Trans green/rod pickup w/NS-09 yellow
2 - Trans green/rod pickup w/SS5
3 - Trans green/rod pickup w/SS5
4 - Brilliant blue/rod pickup w/SS5
5 - dark cobalt/rod pickup w/SS5
6 - Light trans purple over bibidibobibidiblue
7 - Trans yellow/rod pickup w/SS5
8 - Trans yellow/rod pickup w/SS5
9 - Black/rolled in SS5
10 - Trans orange/rod pickup w/SS5
11 - Trans orange/rod pickup w/SS5
These were all encased with schott artistic except #6
My thoughts?
This is nice glass. It melts smooth, it doesnt bubble, it keeps its color fairly well, you cannot beat the price! the only issue I noticed was that the yellow turns a little darker than the rod after annealing.[/quote]
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