How to get colour out of Raku

Ant · January 13, 2012, 10:51:39 PM

I just found this thread on LE on how to get great colour out of raku frit:

http://lampworketc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20601

This lady has produced such fab colours that I'm just gonna have to play with some now ................

Lakelady · January 14, 2012, 08:25:47 AM

I was looking at that yesterday too! I can get lovely colours from frit but it doesn't seem to work the same for bigger areas of pure glass

Princess Peggy (Priscilla McGirr) · January 14, 2012, 08:30:41 AM

That's a very interesting thread, and I think the technique could apply to lots of other reactive glass like fire lotus and multicolour as well.

By the way, is anyone on here signed up to LE? I would quite like to join, at the risk of spending even more of my time glued to my computer, but it would be nice to find some friends on there if I did.

Shirley · January 14, 2012, 08:34:41 AM

I look at LE. Don't say a lot though. Their daily gallery is excellent.

That raku thread has been around for a while, and still seems to be used a lot. The colour Dawn gets from raku and the other striking glasses is amazing.

Lakelady · January 14, 2012, 08:59:23 AM

I am on there but spend more time on here - LE is so big! Haven't worked my way around it yet...

SilverGems89 · January 14, 2012, 12:10:06 PM

Just to point out Dawn uses 96coe (i think) Raku and does say in that thread she finds it extremely difficult to get colour out of 104coe Raku rods

I had a play with Raku frit at Di East's the other night and got some lovely colours, but i suspect as it was frit it would too be a 94/96 coe version.

I am a member of LE but never post (and i have a different name to here on FH!)

Ant · January 14, 2012, 01:37:17 PM

Quote from: SilverGems89 on January 14, 2012, 12:10:06 PM
Just to point out Dawn uses 96coe (i think) Raku and does say in that thread she finds it extremely difficult to get colour out of 104coe Raku rods
I had a play with Raku frit at Di East's the other night and got some lovely colours, but i suspect as it was frit it would too be a 94/96 coe version.

I am a member of LE but never post (and i have a different name to here on FH!)

That's interesting, I hadn't even considered that the COE would make a difference, but I guess it would. So a covering 94/96 raku frit would seem to be the way to go then!

SilverGems89 · January 14, 2012, 02:49:53 PM

Yes, Dawn mentions in post #404 (page 14) of the thread that after 2 days of working with 104 raku she went back to 96coe! I'm not exactly sure why they would be different but appears they are!

Lakelady · January 14, 2012, 03:17:22 PM

That explains it then - must admit to not reading the whole thread