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Martin Boekers
07-21-2011, 11:48 AM
For you experimenters out there.....

One of my suppliers came up with this product,
May work (or not ;-) ) with the laser but thought I'd
toss it out.

I may order some next month to play with as if the laser doesn't work
I do have kilns and it may be interesting!


www.aftosa.com/glass-clay.html (http://www.aftosa.com/glass-clay.html)

Ruben Salcedo
07-21-2011, 12:26 PM
For you experimenters out there.....

One of my suppliers came up with this product,
May work (or not ;-) ) with the laser but thought I'd
toss it out.

I may order some next month to play with as if the laser doesn't work




I do have kilns and it may be interesting!


www.aftosa.com/glass-clay.html (http://www.aftosa.com/glass-clay.html)

Martin,

I had the same thought as well after I receive the email from this supplier, but unfortunately I don't have a kiln, keep us posted of your experiment results after you try it. Thanks.

Martin Boekers
07-21-2011, 12:37 PM
I really want to try it on a laser to see if any, that I can get something to fuse.

If not I may be able to make a mould with the laser and them use the kiln to see
how that would work.

I am so busy right now and in the next few months I just don't have time to play. :(

Michael Hunter
07-21-2011, 12:49 PM
I did try silver clay in my laser - with very poor results.
The small amount of silver that actually melted in the laser heat just formed minute beads which were all separate.

The binder in silver clay is rice starch - I suspect that you could use the same binder with powdered glass, which would be a lot cheaper than the $11.50 per 50g these people are asking.

Martin Boekers
07-21-2011, 1:12 PM
Thanks for the input!