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Excited to see these color bars from when we emptied the silver furnace. It looks like the purple darkened a bunch after annealing the bar.... And some silver got into it when I was making the bar (I gathered over a bunch of the silver glass and messed up the bar twice, folding it back onto itself each time).

I may be running out of red phosphor to make the nice red and green warm mixed white, but I have almost a kilo of "3800 K" white and I'm mixin up some.
I want to coat a test tube soon with the silver colors. It would be more beige than brown I think.

I am super happy to hear that people around Urbanglass are really curious about the color. Everyone that used it wants to melt it again.
I think it's only about $10 a pound in materials an shipping to make it- not including the cost to rent the furnace. Most silver color bars are over $40 per pound. I do love the communal aspect of the public furnace

#Urbanglass #nyc #glassblowing #residency #color #sculpture #Brooklyn #silver

Excited to see these color bars from when we emptied the silver furnace. It looks like the purple darkened a bunch after annealing the bar.... And some silver got into it when I was making the bar (I gathered over a bunch of the silver glass and messed up the bar twice, folding it back onto itself each time).

I may be running out of red phosphor to make the nice red and green warm mixed white, but I have almost a kilo of "3800 K" white and I'm mixin up some.
I want to coat a test tube soon with the silver colors. It would be more beige than brown I think.

I am super happy to hear that people around Urbanglass are really curious about the color. Everyone that used it wants to melt it again.
I think it's only about $10 a pound in materials an shipping to make it- not including the cost to rent the furnace. Most silver color bars are over $40 per pound. I do love the communal aspect of the public furnace

#Urbanglass #nyc #glassblowing #residency #color #sculpture #Brooklyn #silver

Excited to see these color bars from when we emptied the silver furnace. It looks like the purple darkened a bunch after annealing the bar.... And some silver got into it when I was making the bar (I gathered over a bunch of the silver glass and messed up the bar twice, folding it back onto itself each time).

I may be running out of red phosphor to make the nice red and green warm mixed white, but I have almost a kilo of "3800 K" white and I'm mixin up some.
I want to coat a test tube soon with the silver colors. It would be more beige than brown I think.

I am super happy to hear that people around Urbanglass are really curious about the color. Everyone that used it wants to melt it again.
I think it's only about $10 a pound in materials an shipping to make it- not including the cost to rent the furnace. Most silver color bars are over $40 per pound. I do love the communal aspect of the public furnace

#Urbanglass #nyc #glassblowing #residency #color #sculpture #Brooklyn #silver

Excited to see these color bars from when we emptied the silver furnace. It looks like the purple darkened a bunch after annealing the bar.... And some silver got into it when I was making the bar (I gathered over a bunch of the silver glass and messed up the bar twice, folding it back onto itself each time).

I may be running out of red phosphor to make the nice red and green warm mixed white, but I have almost a kilo of "3800 K" white and I'm mixin up some.
I want to coat a test tube soon with the silver colors. It would be more beige than brown I think.

I am super happy to hear that people around Urbanglass are really curious about the color. Everyone that used it wants to melt it again.
I think it's only about $10 a pound in materials an shipping to make it- not including the cost to rent the furnace. Most silver color bars are over $40 per pound. I do love the communal aspect of the public furnace

#Urbanglass #nyc #glassblowing #residency #color #sculpture #Brooklyn #silver

Yesterday, while Sean an I were having coffee- were texted that the #furnace was at 300 F (it crashed overnight). They warmed it back up over the course of the day, and by the evening, had it back up to 2200 F. This morning, we came in to bubbly #glass - which cleared up by the end of the day.
The Silver Tin Zinc color was really a dream come true! Mike and I didn't know what it would do, and he based it on a borosilicate, pipe maker batch when I asked for "super reactive and changes every time you heat it".
Really excited to pump these. Working with it produced gorgeous colors that revealed how the glass was gathered and worked with as it is cooling and being reheated. Each stretch would end up a different shade of the silvery glass. I do believe that they are all yellowy amber filtering though. The #silver turned blue when we put it over the Nickel Sulfur brown from last week.
We did one purple pull. It was very light and disappointing.

#dreamcometrue #glassblowing #residency #art

Yesterday, while Sean an I were having coffee- were texted that the #furnace was at 300 F (it crashed overnight). They warmed it back up over the course of the day, and by the evening, had it back up to 2200 F. This morning, we came in to bubbly #glass - which cleared up by the end of the day.
The Silver Tin Zinc color was really a dream come true! Mike and I didn't know what it would do, and he based it on a borosilicate, pipe maker batch when I asked for "super reactive and changes every time you heat it".
Really excited to pump these. Working with it produced gorgeous colors that revealed how the glass was gathered and worked with as it is cooling and being reheated. Each stretch would end up a different shade of the silvery glass. I do believe that they are all yellowy amber filtering though. The #silver turned blue when we put it over the Nickel Sulfur brown from last week.
We did one purple pull. It was very light and disappointing.

#dreamcometrue #glassblowing #residency #art

Yesterday, while Sean an I were having coffee- were texted that the #furnace was at 300 F (it crashed overnight). They warmed it back up over the course of the day, and by the evening, had it back up to 2200 F. This morning, we came in to bubbly #glass - which cleared up by the end of the day.
The Silver Tin Zinc color was really a dream come true! Mike and I didn't know what it would do, and he based it on a borosilicate, pipe maker batch when I asked for "super reactive and changes every time you heat it".
Really excited to pump these. Working with it produced gorgeous colors that revealed how the glass was gathered and worked with as it is cooling and being reheated. Each stretch would end up a different shade of the silvery glass. I do believe that they are all yellowy amber filtering though. The #silver turned blue when we put it over the Nickel Sulfur brown from last week.
We did one purple pull. It was very light and disappointing.

#dreamcometrue #glassblowing #residency #art

Yesterday, while Sean an I were having coffee- were texted that the #furnace was at 300 F (it crashed overnight). They warmed it back up over the course of the day, and by the evening, had it back up to 2200 F. This morning, we came in to bubbly #glass - which cleared up by the end of the day.
The Silver Tin Zinc color was really a dream come true! Mike and I didn't know what it would do, and he based it on a borosilicate, pipe maker batch when I asked for "super reactive and changes every time you heat it".
Really excited to pump these. Working with it produced gorgeous colors that revealed how the glass was gathered and worked with as it is cooling and being reheated. Each stretch would end up a different shade of the silvery glass. I do believe that they are all yellowy amber filtering though. The #silver turned blue when we put it over the Nickel Sulfur brown from last week.
We did one purple pull. It was very light and disappointing.

#dreamcometrue #glassblowing #residency #art