New Products from Glass Alchemy, Ltd.

Grape, 773 Boromax® Ground Joint

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Grape, 773 19mm standard taper female ground joint: accepts 19/22mm, 19/24mm and 19/26mm males. This is a solid color handmade joint from a handmade color tube. Wall thickness and lip size may vary but an extreme amount of focus has been put on a wobble free, centered hole.

Peacock, 546 Boromax® Tube

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One pound of Peacock, 546 Boromax® Tube.

Grape, 773 Boromax® Tube

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One pound of Grape, 773 Boromax® Tube.

Agua Azul, 446 Boromax® Ground Joint

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One Agua Azul, 446 19mm standard taper female ground joint: accepts 19/22mm, 19/24mm and 19/26mm males. This is a solid color handmade joint from a handmade color tube. Wall thickness and lip size may vary but an extreme amount of focus has been put on a wobble free, centered hole.

Peacock, 546 Boromax® Ground Joint

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One Peacock, 546 19mm standard taper female ground joint: accepts 19/22mm, 19/24mm and 19/26mm males. This is a solid color handmade joint from a handmade color tube. Wall thickness and lip size may vary but an extreme amount of focus has been put on a wobble free, centered hole.

Dragon's Eye, 4838 Boromax® Ground Joint

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One Dragon's Eye, 4838 19mm standard taper female ground joint: accepts 19/22mm, 19/24mm and 19/26mm males. This is a solid color handmade joint from a handmade color tube. Wall thickness and lip size may vary but an extreme amount of focus has been put on a wobble free, centered hole.

Agua Azul, 446 Boromax® Tube

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One pound of Agua Azul, 446 Boromax® Tube.

Dragon's Eye, 4838 Frit

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This is a fantastic color that has a wide range of possibilities. Try striking the silver, the copper, or both! Available in five frit grades.

Lapis, 5195 Frit

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A dark, soulful, opaque blue, Lapis, 5195 is a necessary addition to every studio and is available in five frit grades.

Double Passion, 783 Boromax® Tube

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One pound of Double Passion, 783 Boromax® Tube.

Chocolate Crayon, 804 Frit

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This color was designed to be a deep, rich, dark opaque brown. Available in five frit grades.

Lipstick Red, 105 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

A few shades deeper than GA Red Crayon, this opaque and luscious red bridges the gap between the truest red in the GA palette and GA Sangria. Lipstick has a density and holds its color extremely well when blown out thin or drawn down to a very thin stringer. Slightly stiffer in working characteristics than some of the lighter crayon colors, Lipstick should be worked an inch or two out in the flame further than your most common working area as to let the heat soak into the color slower and saturate the core. When color layer is not encased and at least 3mm thick the finish will be smooth, slick and rich. Compliment this color with GA Turquoise or Spanish Moss.

Sunburst Orange, 202 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

A stunning and vibrant, yet very naturally toned orange, this color rounds out the warm colored crayon palette. Sunburst has all the working characteristics that you would hope for from an opaque. It is smooth and creamy when being melted, applied and manipulated. There is very little tendency for sublimation at the point of separation from the rod and it handles quite well in various flame settings, including heavy reduction using propane and in different working areas of the flame. When thinned out to less than 1mm stringer or blown out thin, the color will be a slightly translucent and opalescent finish, which lends well to the ability to use this color to mimic things found in our world of nature. When layer of color is 3mm thick the density of the color stays true and bright. Compliment this color with GA Agua Azul for an interesting look.

Passion Extreme, 788 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

This rich color has a lot of potential for different finishes depending on whether you kiln strike and/or flame reduce. The base color is similar to GA Triple Passion, but moves into deep purples quickly. This color sometimes reminds me of a concord grape in the way that the light bursts and highlights of ghosty silver-blue appear over a deep warm purple.

The purple will become darker and darker the longer it is worked and if your piece goes into the kiln and you still want a darker color, then strike at 1100 F for 15-20 minutes extra. You can always change the look of the top layer of Passion Extreme by blasting a sharp and hot flame onto the surface, immediately cutting through the silver build up and reversing the strike of the "skin" of the color. From there it's just in how you expose it to the flame or kiln that will determine the outcome of this wonderful color. Passion Extreme holds up well in blown and solid applications, and thin stringers hold color well. When sandwiched under clear more light blue fumey effects are showcased over the base color. I really like using this color with GA Raven and on top of GA Sno White in a veiled cane.

Singular Passion, 380 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

Closest in result to Warm Yellow, this exquisite Revolution 33 graduate is the opalescent yellow I have waited for. Where continuously working Warm Yellow will yield you light blues and purples, Singular Passion will go from transparent to opalescent or milky in color, but stays in the golden and white-ish yellow range of color. The result is gorgeous. I tend to like the results of Singular Passion best after a sculpture, either hollow or solid, has been worked in the flame for an hour or longer. Kiln striking at 1050 F or higher will shift the color when its is allowed to soak for a duration of time.

Double Passion, 783 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

This transparent color can strike and shift in color simultaneously because of the perfect mix of ingredients similar to those found in Triple Passion. Striking a bit slower than its Triple counterpart, you can see more yellows, ambers, oranges and pinks. The amount of silver in the color allows you to have a surface buildup of wispy and cloudy bursts of light blues and cream colors that can be controlled by the amount of propane in your torch flame setting. When worked very hot, you are left with an intense pink or magenta color. Your Double Passion will transmit light of different colors depending on how much the base color strikes and how much silver you let rest on the surface. This color works well in blown or solid application, with or without encasement.

Peacock Chameleon, 5486 Frit

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Really Teally, 544 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

This color is a what you see is what you get opaque and falls inline between Peacock and Agua Azul. The characteristics of working this color are just what you would expect from Agua Azul. It has a slight stiffness at first when melting but like the others, it melts easily and smoothly. It will hold up well in stringers and thin blown applications. When blown and stretched thin enough Really Teally will become translucent and allow light to pass through it. Really Teally can be used with or without encasement in clear. Building up solid sections for sculptural bits shows how well the color melts into itself and also how well it holds heat.

Really Teally is workable in all flame settings and can handle intense spot heats without concern of sublimation or boil. For getting the most bang for your buck with this color you can sandwich it between clear layers for blown and solid applications and still yield the same density and look of color in your finished piece. This color compliments the rest of the opaque blue and green palette, and contrasts extremely well with Rasta Gold.

Agua Azul, 446 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

This opaque aqua blue works great and has never given me any problems. I know that it is one of the most popular Glass Alchemy colors and the reason is because no matter which way you work it, the results are fantastic. I use it for murrine, solid sculpture, blown work on clear tubing or coil potted and with or without encasement in clear.

Agua Azul holds its color as it is drawn out into stringers and is applied smoothly and works creamy. When blown extremely thin you can see slight translucent qualities and minuscule air bubbles, but this only shows when not encased and blown thinner than 1mm.

Complimenting and contrasting a wide array of Glass Alchemy colors, Agua Azul is a mandatory part of my palette and has been since I first used it long ago.

Teal, 531 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

This "what you see is what you get" transparent is a lovely shade of green blue. I find that I love to sandwich it in clear. I like that effect either with solid sculpture or by layering on tubing. When worked without encasement for long periods of time the surface may develop a slight haze in patches, more common in usage of a premix flame. I work this color without encasement by keeping a slightly softer working flame than usual and moving out in the torch flame an inch or so further away from the tip than I would when working other transparent colors. Teal holds color well in stringers and when blown out thin.

Indigo Luster, 683 Frit

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Dragon's Eye, 4838 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

This color can be worked either unencased or encased. When working this color unencased I advise using a flame that has a bit more oxygen in the mix than your normal settings. This will allow you to use reduction properly at the end of the piece by increasing the amount of propane in your torch flame. Through reduction your transparent green base glass will push out colors ranging from creamy blues and greens to yellows, oranges, and purples to a metallic rainbow iridescence. Encasement of rod will yield softer tones over green depending on flame settings during the encasement process.

Triple Passion, 786 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

You know it, you love it, and you can use it so many ways! Triple Passion is a striking color full of silver goodness. This means that as your translucent base glass shifts from a golden yellow to amber and into purples and violets you will also see a reaction from the silver adding in blue and green and purple hues. To best understand how this will work as you make your piece, heat your color rod to a molten state, let it cool, then with a normal working flame heat for a second at a time and pause in between to watch results. The striking happens quickly and that is why short exposure increments will yield large differences.

Encase with clear to trap luster and pearlescent qualities. Color layer thickness will determine final color and ability to control finishing effects.

Beryl, 833 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

This is one of my favorite translucent WYSIWYG colors. Beryl is fascinating to me in the same way the Paris Greens are because of the similarities to bottle glass colors. This brownish olive green transparent is wonderful for solid color sculpting and works very nicely for blown work as well. For larger blown work, I recommend sandwiching between a clear tube and another layer of clear or transparent color, reason being that Beryl is made up of a significant amount of copper. When a heavy copper color is not encased and on the surface for blown work that will be melted, blown, and manipulated it will tend to react with different amounts of propane and oxygen in your flame mix. So where Beryl may feel similar to working a Paris Green, or even clear, it will prefer working about halfway to three quarters of the flame length away from the tip of your torch in an even mix of gas. Heavy reduction or propane in the flame mix, very close to the tip of your torch, will react with the copper in the color causing different surface effects.

A very natural tone for your color palette, Beryl will compliment many other Glass Alchemy colors and when standing alone should be given the opportunity for light to transmit through the color for best presentation.

Amazon Canyon, 8387 Rods

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Artist Description by Mike Shelbo

With a transparent beryl brown base, the silver in Amazon Canyon provides a variety of surface finishes ranging between cool colored pastels that luster a soft pattern to a metallic blue green. I like to work this color with a sharp hot flame to try and keep the surface from a thick build up of metals. This way at the end of the piece a minor increase in propane on your flame setting will help bring out highlights in the color.

Agua Azul, 446 Frit

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