Glue chipped glass

[Robert Schwieger]

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

[Danny Baronian]

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

[Robert Schwieger]

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