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2012-03-12, 1:37pm
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Glitter effect question
Last day I saw a Trollbead with glitter on it, it was beautiful, except I don't know where you can buy glitter for softglas. Does anybody know a vendor that sels glitter for flamework? 
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2012-03-12, 2:25pm
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As in aventurine/goldstone?
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2012-03-12, 2:41pm
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Or dichroic glass?
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2012-03-12, 2:42pm
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or mica/pixi dust.
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2012-03-13, 7:38am
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got a picture? LE'rs can figure out a lot from a picture.
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2012-03-18, 9:22am
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Humm any update here?
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hand dyed silk ribbons in many colors!
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2012-03-18, 11:51am
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One of the boro sparkle colors?
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2012-03-18, 12:00pm
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Sounds like Pixie Dust...
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2012-03-18, 1:22pm
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What about green aventurine?
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2012-03-18, 1:39pm
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There used to be German lampwork artist that had glitter in her beads. I never figured out how she did it. I wish I had a picture of her beads now to show you. It wasn't dichro either. It was silver glitter on regular glass and encased.
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2012-03-18, 2:58pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dusty
One of the boro sparkle colors?
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Oohhhh. I've been convincing myself two COEs are enough but that is pretty!!!
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2012-03-19, 12:01am
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this looks like 96 coe green aventurine it is very pretty in the sun.thats a awesome bead
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2012-03-19, 12:26am
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2012-03-19, 1:05am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AKDesigns
There used to be German lampwork artist that had glitter in her beads. I never figured out how she did it. I wish I had a picture of her beads now to show you. It wasn't dichro either. It was silver glitter on regular glass and encased.
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maybe you are looking for Vera?
She has made a new E-Book:
http://www.glasperlenzimmer.de/shop/
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2012-03-19, 6:25am
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Is there such a thing as dichro frit?
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2012-03-19, 10:02am
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No. Those are pretty but it doesn't look like glitter at all.
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2012-03-19, 10:22am
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@Ginny
Yes, there is dichro frit, at least for fusing. I'm too new at lampworking to know if it exists in 104.
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2012-03-19, 11:31am
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You can make your own dichro frit in three ways.
Use nippers to cut off tiny pieces of 104 dichroic coated glass.
Heat a small sheet of dichroic coated clear in a kiln, remove it carefully, and quench it in cold water to shatter. Wrap in a towel after drying, and hit it with a hard object to crush it further.
Or, kiln fuse dichroic glass strips face down onto another sheet of 104 glass. Full fuse to 1375. The extra layer of clear glass coats the dichroic so it is protected. Then introduce the strip into the flame with a coffee cup full of water underneath it to quench the hot glass. You should have some decent sizes of frit after it is cooled and broken up a bit more.
I have more of a background in fusing than lampworking so these are methods I have used for years.
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2012-03-19, 11:45am
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Is there such a thing as dichro frit?
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You've seen this stuff that Ron sells...
I've only used it a couple of times. It still doesn't look like glitter.
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2012-03-19, 11:52am
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Was it color or silver? I've fused with mica flakes before. They came out silvery. I had the larger sized flakes though, too large for lampwork, but maybe I'll try cutting some up somehow & including them in a bead as an experiment. Or buying some smaller size next time I see them. I was going to put a photo of them in a fused piece, but can't find anything right now.
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2012-03-19, 6:10pm
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I cut up some of my large flakes and put some in a bead. I couldn't tell how they were going to look, but will find out in the morning. Cutting the flakes up was a pain, if I like it I'll be buying smaller flakes!
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2012-03-20, 6:14am
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OK, scratch the mica flakes, they aren't shiny enough to look like glitter.
Edited to change this. The larger flakes I had and cut up were not metallic enough, and I couldn't cut them up small enough to make it work like the small silver did.
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2012-03-20, 6:32am
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You've seen this stuff that Ron sells...
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Imma gonna need more info on this yummy inclusion of what looks like a kryptonian ice tower..... 
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2012-03-20, 7:51am
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You've seen this stuff that Ron sells...
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WHOA! That looks cool . . . . I went to his website and can't find it.
Where is it available?
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2012-03-20, 8:32am
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WHOA! That looks cool . . . . I went to his website and can't find it.
Where is it available?
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This is what your looking for http://cbs-dichroic.com/shopping/sho...er+Foil&PN=376
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2012-03-20, 9:36am
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drool drool... thanks for the link 
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2012-03-21, 10:41pm
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The beads have dichro frit in them. It's a pain to photograph, but has a really nice sparkle in person.
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2012-04-06, 3:20am
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You're talking about something that Ron sels... Who is Ron and where can I buy this?
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2012-04-06, 3:22am
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I have only seen that glitter in my trollbead. It's glitter like nailpolish, and definately no dichro, goldstone, aventurijn or something. Looks like normal glitter you can buy at hobby shops, but they all burn...
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2012-04-06, 3:34am
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I have only seen that glitter in my trollbead. It's glitter like nailpolish, and definately no dichro, goldstone, aventurijn or something. Looks like normal glitter you can buy at hobby shops, but they all burn...
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Are you sure it's glass?
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