|
| Boro Room -- For Boro-related tips, techniques, and questions. |
2010-08-02, 4:34pm
|
 |
Glass my new Obsession
|
|
Join Date: Apr 14, 2006
Location: Eugene Oregon
Posts: 2,296
|
|
Silver foil and Pixie dust
Quick question from a newbie can You use silver foil or pixie dust with boro?
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-02, 7:27pm
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2009
Location: K'zoo, MI (wishing it were St. Thomas-USVI)
Posts: 856
|
|
I'd like to know the answer to that, too. I made a boro bead the other night and used a small piece of fine silver wire. It turned out horrible. barf
__________________
BarbR in Kalamazoo.
Scorpion, bulk propane, 2 5lpm oxycons, tanked O2, a Minor and a HH (just in case)
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-02, 8:23pm
|
 |
ManBearPig
|
|
Join Date: Jun 28, 2005
Location: Roanoke, VA
Posts: 8,540
|
|
No on both counts. The melting temp is too hot.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-02, 9:53pm
|
 |
Borovangelist
|
|
Join Date: Jan 26, 2007
Location: Auburn, MA
Posts: 3,002
|
|
I've used the foil...but it doesn't come out like it does in soft glass, you wind up vaporizing it, but you can get some neat effects with it 
silver and black gets you some neat blues, for example.
__________________
-Tom
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-02, 10:57pm
|
|
Glass my new Obsession
|
|
Join Date: Apr 14, 2006
Location: Eugene Oregon
Posts: 2,296
|
|
Good things to know
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-03, 6:11am
|
|
ManBearPig
|
|
Join Date: Jun 28, 2005
Location: Roanoke, VA
Posts: 8,540
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by menty666
I've used the foil...but it doesn't come out like it does in soft glass, you wind up vaporizing it, but you can get some neat effects with it
silver and black gets you some neat blues, for example. |
It does the same thing as fuming with silver.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-03, 3:46pm
|
 |
boro color bender
|
|
Join Date: Jun 06, 2005
Location: The Oregon coast!
Posts: 10,039
|
|
Not really... it makes neat little balls... fuming can do that if you really boil your silver and spatter it on the glass, but i like foil on boro... never tried pixie dust...
and as for the wire, it can turn black and nasty looking... but that's just on the surface... you can polish with some rouge and a polishing wheel... I actually do this with glass that has metal on the surface... looks neat! Shines right up. 
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley
|
2010-08-03, 4:21pm
|
|
Borovangelist
|
|
Join Date: Jan 26, 2007
Location: Auburn, MA
Posts: 3,002
|
|
from what I've heard, pixie dust burns up at boro temps.
__________________
-Tom
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-03, 6:16pm
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 01, 2009
Location: K'zoo, MI (wishing it were St. Thomas-USVI)
Posts: 856
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Smiley
and as for the wire, it can turn black and nasty looking... but that's just on the surface... you can polish with some rouge and a polishing wheel... I actually do this with glass that has metal on the surface... looks neat! Shines right up. |
Oops, guess I shouldn't have thrown it away. 
__________________
BarbR in Kalamazoo.
Scorpion, bulk propane, 2 5lpm oxycons, tanked O2, a Minor and a HH (just in case)
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-03, 7:21pm
|
|
Borovangelist
|
|
Join Date: Jan 26, 2007
Location: Auburn, MA
Posts: 3,002
|
|
Yeah, that was probably just fire scale
__________________
-Tom
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-04, 5:36am
|
|
ManBearPig
|
|
Join Date: Jun 28, 2005
Location: Roanoke, VA
Posts: 8,540
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Smiley
Not really... it makes neat little balls... fuming can do that if you really boil your silver and spatter it on the glass, but i like foil on boro... never tried pixie dust...
and as for the wire, it can turn black and nasty looking... but that's just on the surface... you can polish with some rouge and a polishing wheel... I actually do this with glass that has metal on the surface... looks neat! Shines right up. |
I've only used it once. It just colored the glass like fuming does. I wasn't a fan.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
•
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-04, 10:44am
|
 |
Madmanmarbles
|
|
Join Date: Mar 04, 2006
Location: Indianapolis IN
Posts: 553
|
|
Here is a layer of silver foil with gold on the outside... I love using silver foil with boro...
You have to take your time, but I love the results... So depending on what you want to do with it, Yes it works fine as far as the silver foil or leaf goes...
Up close you can see the beads of silver that make this look almost outerspace like...
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
[color="Red"] Chettah
|
2010-08-08, 8:42am
|
 |
Pyromaniac
|
|
Join Date: Aug 12, 2006
Location: Memphis, TN
Posts: 1,868
|
|
I've used silver foil with boro and for me it turns golden and balls up which is a nice effect.
Encasing quickly keeps it from burning off the surface. This bead cracked, but you can see the beads of silver that look like gold bubbles on the edges below the encasing. The base was black, then wrapped in silver foil and encased in clear, so you get green, blue, and golden bits.
__________________
Lana
Sexy Barracuda and Mirage
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2010-08-17, 8:19am
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: May 24, 2006
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Posts: 915
|
|
I wrap a very very fine ga fine silver wire (NOT SS) around beads occasionally before I encase and it comes out as gold dots. The hard part is getting the wire to stick before it totally melts.
__________________
I'm destashing.. If you're looking for something just ask..
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 2:44am.
|
