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.

Sapphire

Sapphire is a Brilliant Blue based sparkle color utilizing the next generation sparkle technology found in Paparazzi.

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.

Artist Description:

“With large flakes of sparkle, this transparent deep brilliant blue has an intense shimmer and wide spectrum of reflective color.

If you stripe, coil, mash, layer and twist or swirl this color you can actually see the effect in the look of the sparkle. An example would be the tight satin like pattern that is formed when compressing the rod while spinning one direction without encasement into a marble. When the rod is applied and worked without much manipulation, it will show much larger flakes of sparkle. Think of each sparkle flake as a small flat chip that can either be stacked on top of one another or laid side by side, each manipulation changes the “look” or finish.

This color is great for every application including solid, with or without encasement, and hollow forms with varying thickness in color. When blown thin or stretched down into a thin stringer or veil, Sapphire will be very transparent yet still lend sparkle to the finished look. Do not use an extremely high mix of propane when Sapphire is being worked for long periods of time in the flame without encasement, the result will be a slight grey just on top of your brilliant blue base color.” – Mike Shelbo

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.