PIG glass?

[Foxfire Flameworks]

I've heard it mentioned before, but I want to see the stuff!

Can't find anything on Google, or with the search function here...

Can anyone help me out with the name of a distributor, or some pics?

Thanks!

[adovbs]

Are you sure you don't mean "PI glass?"

http://www.pi-glass.com/

Looks like they aren't taking any orders, though.

[Foxfire Flameworks]

I'm talking about whatever's mentioned in the soda-lime section of this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_beadmaking

I don't think they're the same, but I'm not sure at all. I could definitely be wrong.

[cghipp]

There's Pi GLass, which is out of commission right now, and PIG Sticks (or STIX). I think that was short for "Priceless International Glass." A lot of people learned on that glass because it was cheap, but you either loved it or you hated it. And by that I mean pretty much everybody hated it.

Sorry I don't have any pics for you! I have a few rods of Pi Glass downstairs but I just got back in town and am too tired to do anything but stare at the computer screen and stare at the Olympics.

Courtney

[MaryBeth]

I believe Arrowsprings used to carry PIG glass. It was cheap lampworking glass from India. I heard that it was scummy and full of air bubbles. I have no personal experience with it.

[DesertDreamer]

In the article they refer to PIG as Indian glass. That was, indeed, the stuff that Arrow Springs used to sell. In my experience, some of the colors were absolutely beautiful, but the quality was abysmal. It was filthy, which normall wouldn't be a long-term issue execpt many of the rods were also pitted and that crud would be stuck in the pinholes. (Many of us speculated that it was packed in camel dung, but that was pretty much exaggeration....we hoped. :twisted: ) A lot of the coolest colors were shocky, burned easily and weren't compatible with other colors. There was an awful lot of trial-and-error that, at least for me, became a disappointing waste of time in the long run.

Happily, one of my favorite colors is now available in a different "flavor"....what I thought of as Moonstone is now out in Kugler cane. Wahoo!

[Foxfire Flameworks]

Wow. Thanks for the replies, and I guess I'm glad to know I wasn't missing much! Since I doubt there's anyplace I could find it, and I have no particular affinity for dung-coated glass anyway, I'll just stick to the glass I know. Thanks, you guys!