I have been using Tuffnell's "brilliant gold" fine frit, to make headpin-type flower centres - dipping a hot blob into the frit, melting it in slightly, then reducing it. But I don't get gold, I get a sort of lustrous dark silver. It's pretty, but it's not gold.
Is there a trick to this, does anyone know?
(And a Merry Christmas to one and all!)
Moira
You might have to reduce tha glass much slighter than you did. This glass might contain lead in the glass matrix, that reduces to a dark silver (like haematite). Just turn gas up to "dragon-breath" and go quickly several times through the tail end of the flame. Watch the bead as the gold comes up.
Dietmaer