Pound and 1/4 Pound Minimum Items

Items labeled in this manner are sold by weight at a price per pound. The price you see is the pound price. You will be charged for the actual weight of the product you receive. If you wish to order a specific number of rods, tubes, sticks or the like, enter that information in the comment box upon checkout. We will do our best to accommodate you knowing how many pounds you want (from the shopping cart) along with how many tubes/items you want from the comment box.

Starry Night

Starry Night is a variation of the much loved Paparazzi.  We added a touch of silver so you can yield a nice mild strike, while still seeing the depth of sparkle.

Working Tip:  This color likes to be worked cool, but make sure you have your heat base built up while tooling or manipulating the glass to avoid developing a gray haze. As with all chrome colors, we suggest you work this color in a neutral flame.  Garage at 975° F, Anneal at 1050° F.

Artist Description:

Starry Night is similar in sparkle flake, size and structure to Paparazzi and Sapphire, but has the added addition of just the right amount of silver to bring a fume like veil over the surface of your sparkle finish.  When working Starry Night you must keep the surface in mind as the silver will push out in a ghost blue transparent cloudiness. You can remove the cloudiness with an intense spot heat, or let it build up to a slightly cream colored fume. Either way, there are loads of sparkles and possibilities for swirling silver into your pieces.  I found I liked putting a thick layer of Starry Night over a clear tube, melting it smooth, encasing it with 6mm clear rod and then melting that to either stretch down, or blow out thin.  It traps the silver fume and gives a different look to the sparkle than when it is un-encased.

Glass Alchemy Boromax Colored Rods & Frit

Glass Alchemy Boromax colored rods are 7 mm diameter and 20" long unless otherwise stated. Some rods are listed as 4 mm diameter. The COE is 33 and Boromax may be combined with Simax and any other glass with a similar coefficient of thermal expansion. Glass Alchemy uses the ROY G BIV spectrum sequence to number its colors. R = red = 100 series. O = Orange = 200 series, etc. Glass Alchemy Boromax Colored Rods are sold by the pound with a 1/4 pound minimum purchase per color.

Glass Alchemy Boromax frits

Glass Alchemy Boromax frits are also available. We stock Boromax Frit in four sizes (also called grades):

• Large Frit (25 grade)
• Medium Frit (38 Grade)
• Small Frit (70 Grade)
• Fine Frit (82 grade)

All Boromax frit comes in a 4 oz. or 16 oz. jar.