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Glue chipped glass
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Glue chipped glass
Just curious. While recently completing a gilded glue chipped project I decided to gild a small piece of commercial chipped glass from a stained glass outlet. The difference was remarkably noticeable. The commercial piece gild did not have the bright quality of the traditional flat glass piece I had chipped and was working on. I am just curious, what factor in the commercial piece produced the "less brilliant" gild? All the materials used were the same except for the glass ( gelatin, etc.). Bob
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Re: Glue chipped glass
Are you sure it is actually glue chipped, and not extruded?
There is glass that's is cast and extruded while hot with rollers to emboss a glue chip pattern, but is not the same quality of glued chipped glass at all.
Danny
There is glass that's is cast and extruded while hot with rollers to emboss a glue chip pattern, but is not the same quality of glued chipped glass at all.
Danny
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Re: Glue chipped glass
Of course. I should have suspected this since the overall chip pattern was so consistent. I did find that on a previous project this "commercial chip" glass provided an interesting variation when it (the commercial chip) without gilding was overlaid on a brightly burnished glass piece which was positioned underneath and a spacer used in between. A nice background for the main features. Thanks for the valuable information. Bob