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Author: Laura_Brito, Contributing Editor
| Enamels, which are very fine colored glass dust, are fun things to add to your glass palette. Enamels come in many colors and will extend the regular palette of glass rods and help you produce other colors not available. There is even a different COE of Enamels available so it is compatible with different types of glass. At this moment only one company (Thompson Enamels) produces Glass Enamels.
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| Before you use Enamels it is a MUST to understand how to use them correctly. In this article I will be sharing recipes on how to not only get good, or pretty, colors from them, but also, how to be SAFE when you use them.
Storage Enamels are tricky. You need to have them in containers that are safe from tipping or spilling. Since Enamels are very fine dust, it is easy to contaminate your work area with them - just the brush of your arm will cause a cloud of dust that you cannot see. This cloud will eventually deposit itself all over the place and every time you move, there will be another dust cloud. The DANGER in this is that you BREATHE it in. This dust is very tiny razor sharp pieces of glass, and these little particles cut the lining of your lungs and cause scar tissue to grow. Eventually this can cause difficulty in breathing. Not much is known about the dangers of many of the products we use, so we need to use good judgment about how and what we use. |
| I have come up with a method that I think is Ideal for Enamels, and I have reasons for doing it this way. I like to use Watchmakers cases. These little containers come inside a metal aluminum box and each container is also aluminum with a glass topped lid. That way if any enamel escapes, it only falls back into the larger box. Below you can see what a set looks like. These can be found at most jewelry supply houses. |
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