GAFFER COLOURED GLASS LIMITED Gaffer Glass will be closed for its annual holidays between 21st December 2011 and 23rd January 2012. We wish all our customers a Happy Xmas and a great New Year. 26th April 2011 Dear Clients, We regretfully announce that as of 2nd May 2011 we are forced to finally confront the remorseless rise in the cost of precious metals –namely gold and silver. We have absorbed the cost of these materials over the last five years but there now comes a time when we can no longer do so. Just since 2008 gold has increased in price 70% and silver likewise 140%. Accordingly we are increasing the price of all our glasses containing gold and silver by 15%. Those colours are as follows: Transparents Opals 2 COLLINS STREET • MORNINGSIDE • AUCKLAND • NEW ZEALAND
010 Gold ruby extra 109 Chalcedony
011 Gold Amethyst 1095 Blue Chalcedony
012 Brilliant Gold 110 Gold pink extra
013 Apricot 112 Pale rose
014 Gold ruby 113 Heliotrope
015 Hyacinth 114 Purpur
016 Wine Red 115 Violet
019 Gold Topaz 116 Lavender
060 Silver Blue Lustre 189 French Vanilla
061 Gold lustre
062 Black lustre
063 Iris yellow lustre
065 Purple lustre
066 Red lustre extra
067 Green lustre
068 Clear luster
080 Photosensitive Ruby
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Announcing Two New Colours:
PHIL’S GREY G-194 &
ALABASTER G-190
Gaffer Glass has recently released two new colors: Phil’s Grey G-194 and Alabaster G-190. Phil’s Grey is named after a much beloved employee who tragically passed away a couple of years ago. He once made this light opal grey by mistake and it has been difficult to reproduce until now. This is a soft neutral grey similar to an elephant grey.
We are particularly proud of our new Alabaster G-190. This is an opaline with that delicate milky opalescence a lá Lalique, with the characteristic play of reddish tones with transmitted light. For those that find Opal White G-101 or Enamel White G-100 too opaque and soulless, G-190 might be just what you are looking for.
Many of you will have tried Reichenbach’s or Kugler’s R 60 or K 60 Opaline. Both are virtually identical examples of a phosphate based opal. They both suffer badly from what we call “heat rings” in blown ware- ie bands of wildly varying opacity depending on the thermal history of the glass piece.
Gaffer’s new Alabaster uses the same basic phosphate system, but Gaffer has worked hard to tweak the recipe so that it does not opacify to varying degrees of density depending on heat treatment. A blown cylinder or bowl for instance will be even in opacity from lip to foot.
Gaffer Glass announces a new opaque colour -
NAVY BLUE G-129.
A rich, deep, traditional navy blue that adds to our opal blue series.
Very intense and opaque like all of our opal range.
Available now.
Gaffer Glass is proud to announce the launch of a world first –
a red lustre glass.
G-066 Red Lustre Extra is a striking color and needs to develop it’s characteristic hue (similar to Copper Ruby) over a time period of 1-2 hours at 490-510°C (914-950°F). Apart from requiring that heat treatment no other special working is needed. A mildly reducing flame will quickly produce a golden mirror on the surface.
The colour is quite dense and can be used sparingly unlike cadmium selenium reds.
A FABULOUS NEW COLOR :
G-109 Chalcedony
In 1856, the Muranese glasshouse of Salviati resurrected the color Chalcedony (pronounced kal-sed-onie), first described in Antonio Neri’s treatise “L’Arte Vetraria” published in 1612. Chalcedony is a multicolored glass that Salviati presented at the famous London Exhibition of 1862 to widespread acclaim. It has pretty much been absent from the glass artists palette in recent times. Reichenbach’s Iris Orange R-108 is an anaemic shadow of what is possible.
Gaffer is proud to relaunch a full blown example of this color system with the usual high standards of perfect compatibility and freedom of stones and bubbles.
The color is built on a scarlet base, allowing a red transparency when blown thinly. Used in thicker quantities it can exhibit all the colors of the spectrum when subjected to different heat treatments. It is perfect for multicolored effects in beads. The color will luster a bright silver/gold under a mildly reducing flame
For picking up from a hotbox, have the temperature at around 980oF.
