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2006-12-08, 2:11pm
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Photosensitive glass?
Anyone ever heard of it? Know where to get it? Know how to use it?
Here's an auction I came across today that says they use it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/broke-down-barn-...QQcmdZViewItem
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2006-12-08, 2:35pm
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I've seen this in a coffee mug that we sell in our retail store. It looks black until you put a hot liquid in it and then a design appears. The problem is that it's more expensive than most mugs, and all the consumer sees is a black mug! Not sure if it's the same thing but it sounds like it. There is no evidence on the inside or outside of the mug that a design will appear when the hot liquid is added. All of that just to say that I've seen what I think is photosensitive glass although not in a bead.
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2006-12-08, 2:35pm
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Googled it and here is a page with some info from Olympic Color...very interesting stuff!
http://www.glasscolor.com/colors/photosensitive.aspx
-yee
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2006-12-08, 2:48pm
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Oh my gosh, that is expensive! $60.90 for one rod of glass!
I guess I won't be doing any of that....lol
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2006-12-08, 2:53pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy C.
I've seen this in a coffee mug that we sell in our retail store. It looks black until you put a hot liquid in it and then a design appears. The problem is that it's more expensive than most mugs, and all the consumer sees is a black mug! Not sure if it's the same thing but it sounds like it. There is no evidence on the inside or outside of the mug that a design will appear when the hot liquid is added. All of that just to say that I've seen what I think is photosensitive glass although not in a bead.
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Not the same thing at all (and me, I love my thermo-sensative mugs...I have a chishire cat which disappears)  D
The photoresistant glass is like a photographic plate-(kind of like a negative, in the sense that you don't print from it).
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2006-12-08, 11:52pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogsongstudio
Oh my gosh, that is expensive! $60.90 for one rod of glass!
I guess I won't be doing any of that....lol
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Is that for a rod the normal size we use, or the giagantic rods that come from them?
Kathy
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2006-12-09, 8:07am
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I think it's a neat concept, but I can't say that I'm a fan of the end result.
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2006-12-09, 1:51pm
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That's likely to be a glassblower's rod, not a beadmaking rod. Regular (non-photosensitive) gold ruby rods on the OCR site are $45-$55, so they're definitely not talking about the sort of rods we're used to.
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2006-12-10, 12:12pm
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It is VERY expensive and it doesn`t work every time. You need a special furnance or light and a lot of practical training. I don`t know if it works with COE 104 because it has COE 93 - 96. The effects are not so nice used with the wrong base glass, so make a good choice for the second colour. For example white and red.
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