Tipsheet: Dichro Materials
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1. Tipsheet Dichro slides dichro frit and dichro glass When you make jewellery you will probably like our dichroic material which can give your work more colour and shine But what is dichro It started with dichroic glass Manufacturers create an extremely thin layer of precious metals on their glass The metals are in fact damped on the surface of the glass This procedure is complicated and the metals are expensive so no need to say that dichroic glass can be quite expensive In daily life this glass has been given the short name dichro Your HotPot supplier has a wide range of dichro glass available Baoti Tested com COE 9 BAOLI GLASS wow fap europe cor Dichroic 100 gram Scrap COE 90 Dichro slides and dichro frit are also thin layers of precious metals but here this material is not damped onto glass but on paper You can use it for fusing on or between your glass icle 8250 1021 Dichro Slides 50 x 82 mm woyPpor 50 2 o oae gaes au For more information www microwave ot pot com EXAMPLE OF WORKING WITH DICHRO GLASS HotPot suppliers can offer you various colours of dichro glass The base glass is mostly black in some occasions it can be colourless glass It works quite similar to the normal fusing glass Let s take this simple example Cut 2 pieces of black glass as a base Op top of that you stack all kinds of dichro glass Fuse the whole piece in the HotPot and that s it a beaut2. act that they will not be left in water before use these are ready to use Because they cannot fuse together with anything if placed on top they can only be used between 2 layers of glass Logically the glass on top will most commonly be transparent and colourless to create the best visibility for the dichro frit colours We cut 2 pieces of glass We place some dichro frit between the 2 layers with a small amount of glue near the edges to keep everything together while transporting it to the microwave When the glue has dried we fuse this piece in the HotPot as we do with normal glass Hot tip Dichro slides and frit should not be fused too long or too hot since this could burn your dichro material and leave you with white or gray ashes instead of nice colours So be careful with your firin times If your piece is rather big you may prefer to fuse it in 2 separate firings so that the glass with not get too hot at some point dicro slide fused on glass dicro frit fused between glass For more information www microwave io pot com
3. iful piece with bright colours of precious metals EXAMPLE OF WORKING WITH DICHRO SLIDES At first we cut the glass in the desired shape For a full fuse we need 2 layers of 3 mm to get the thickness of 6 mm reed more about this in the user manual We place the 2 pieces on top of each other with a little glue in between and leave it to dry The dichro slides will later on be placed op top of this Now we cut the dichro slides that we have chosen and put them in water This way the dichro layer comes off of the paper After one minute we take a piece of dichro slide out of the water We carefully move the dichro between our fingers and the dichro separates from the paper The dichro is now very vulnerable so place it on the glass with much caution As long as it is wet it can still be moved around so you don t have to worry about placing it in the right position at once If you have some water or air trapped under the dichro gently push your finger on the dichro until the dichro is set neatly on the glass Leave it to dry completely and then fuse it in the HotPot as you do with normal fusing glass cut the dichro slide in shape i put it in water leave it for a minute For more information www microwave ot pot com ko m Move the dichro off the paper put it on the glass move it into the right position EXAMPLE OF WORKING WITH DICHRO FRIT The dichro frit is almost the same as the dichro slides The biggest difference lies within the f
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