irridised glass

[bluefairy]

You can usually feel irid?  It's not as smooth?  I don't like the feel of it 

[Zeldazog]

I wonder if it does the water repelling thing?  I've tended to use the irridised textures, so I can tell which side is which!

[Trudi]

You can usually feel irid?  It's not as smooth?  I don't like the feel of it 

Thanks - I did feel the glass and could definately feel one side - so I've put that face down  - we'll see in the morning!!

I thought you'd be able to tell the same as dichoric - but no!!

Thanks!

Trudi x

[Flippopotamus]

Ohh that sounds cool!! I'm glad I asked before I used it. And it doesn't stick  - wow!!

Fantastic pictures!! Thanks for the advice!
Trudi x

Thanks, I ought to post some more of these in the Bullseye thread, didn't I?  Give me more chances 

I love irridised glass, prefer it to dichroic.  I've never tried the sticking thing, I never fire it face down, I got that from a Bullseye tipsheet.

I understood from the tipsheet that the irid side is less likely to stick to fibre paper if you're kilncarving etc.  It's still absolutely vital to kiln wash your shelves or to use thinfire paper.

Flip

[Warm Glass UK]

BTW - the other rule that we try to keep in the studio here is to avoid putting two iridised faces together (as with dichroic); as they are metal oxide coatings, they are less likely to fully fuse together and will likely repel each other especially at the edges so either always put both faces up or both faces down. Thanks, Pippa

[Will224]

...hello... I am a newbie here...

...as one that loves to go against the stream I fused some irid face to face...

...made some pendants with predrilled 1/2 inch holes of Bullseye 1114 Deep Royal Blue and 100-0032 Patterned Black for bottom...

...with 1009 Reactive Ice Clear on top...

... not sure how to insert a photo yet...

...most stuck but one slid partly off... I cut the clear that was hanging off and refired...

...the buttons that were cut as result of the holes were used in the design...

...can't seem to figure the photo program at this site...

...a little help here !...

[Margram]

Go to your photo hosting site (Photobucket or other), find the image code, paste it in
to your post after clicking the insert image button (second one along above the row of
yellow emoticons, looks like a little painting).

That wasn't very clear, was it...good luck

Marg x

[Zeldazog]

Will

Here's a link to the Flickr page on Fritipedia

http://www.frit-happens.co.uk/wiki/Flickr

And as soon as I find a link for some instructions on using Photobucket, I will post that too.

Edited to add this link

http://www.frit-happens.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12230.0

Sarah t explains it.

[Will224]

...most sites I've been on will have a Brouse box to find your files...

...now I made an account on photobucket so let's see how this goes...

...if all goes well the first will be the pendant when it slipped...the sencond will be after the fix...

[Zeldazog]

...most sites I've been on will have a Brouse box to find your files...

I think we overloaded our original server with our huge numbers of posts, we had to move servers, dunno if the new server didn't allow photo upload or if it was decided that, as such a picture heavy forum, we should externally host pics so that we don't crash another server!

[Will224]

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