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Dichroic Glass Jewelry

Color       Available for sale from several manufacturers, comes in either 1" diameter rods, powder, different size frits (chips), canes, sheet dichroic fused glass….

Color bars       Concentrated colored fused glass jewelry about 1" in diameter and a foot long; dichroic glass jewelryblowers using moderate amounts of color in their dichroic fused glass buy bars of it and then it can be cut into smaller chunks to be melted, crushed or pulled. It is sold by the kilo for a full bar, cost is effectively $1-3 per inch ($17-48 per kilo.) Those using more color tend to melt their own to reduce cost.

Color crusher       Usually a heavy-walled steel pipe with a close fitting thick steel disk with a handle. Chunks of fused glass jewelry are put in the tube, the disk placed on top and the handle pounded with a hammer or just used like a mortar. Produces dust or small chunks (frit.) A great tool for making your own dichroic glass powders. SIWS - Crusher $80

Color cutter       To get color bar into usable sizes, a cold chisel and hammer will work, often scattering expensive sharp pieces. A commercial cutter is a guillotine like frame with a holder for the dichroic fused glass jewelry that tries to keep things under control. Home built in a variety of designs.

Color Ground       term used when transparent or opaque colored glass jewelry has been used as the background for a paperweight motif.

Color oven or kiln       Any small kiln (or corner of the annealer) used for preheating chunks of color bars to allow pickup without cracking. Copper enameling supplier or build, needs very simple temperature control. Usually has a blackboard near it to plot layout of various colors which may look identical.

Combed Decoration       A surface pattern produced by applying colored dichroic fused glass jewelry threads to the parison, then rolling it on the marver until the threads are on the same level as the surface of the Parison. Using steel claws, the colored dichroic fused glass jewelry threads are then dragged upwards and downwards to produce a variety of decorative effects, including festoons and feathers. GANTAD

Combing - Combed       Lines of color are threaded or otherwise laid down on a piece and then are pulled perpendicular to the lines with sharp pointed tool. If the tool has a single point, the pattern runs together at the point. With a multipoint tool, one point for each line or two, the pattern stays more evenly spaced. MF

Compatibility       dichroic fused glass jewelry expands with heating. Different dichroic glass formulas expand at different rates. If the difference is too great and the different fused glasses are bonded together, by fusing, furnace melting, torchwork or gluing, the materials may crack apart, on their own (internal stress) or when heated (on a shelf in the sun) or chilled (in a car in winter.) A dichroic fused glass worker must be able to test for (or only use products tested for) compatibility. One test involves heating pieces of each of the glass jewelryes, melting them together and pulling a long strand with one dichroic fused glass jewelry on each side; the strand will bend on cooling if the fused glasses do not have the same rate of expansion. Another test involves fusing a small square (or several) of the dichroic fused glass jewelry to be tested onto a clear sample of the base or standard fused glass, annealing, and then testing in a polarizer. For more on these tests and comments about compatibility visit C.R. Loo

Compote       A bowl on a stem, usually flattish with curved in sides as for holding fruit compote.

Concentric       general name for any spacing scheme in millefiori weights which features concentric circles of canes placed around a central cane or cluster of canes. Concentric weights ate either "open" (circles spaced relatively far apart) or "close" (circles close together), or "spaced" (millefiori canes set equal distances apart in vaguely defined concentric circles).

Cone       Typically 7" long, 3" dia., with handle, Paoli $30. Wood or graphite, for opening dichroic glass shapes and providing a variable sized round tool for working the dichroic glass.

Confetti       Thin dichroic fused glass fragments, see shards

Contactor       A device for controlling power that is like a relay that focuses on high power connect-disconnect.

Controller       When dichroic fused glass jewelry has to be held at a specific temperature or ramped slowly from one temperature to another, some kind of controller is used. These days it is usually digital, but mechanical and analog solid state controllers have been built. Controllers are available as small boxes under $200 that will ramp and hold and as more complicated systems that will control up to 5 or 8 units. Most continuously used studios will have the furnace under a control along with at least two annealers and a color oven. Some may have additional annealers and perhaps small units used as garages for parking hot glass.

Cookie       A small amount of hot dichroic fused glass jewelry dropped onto the marver to be used as a foot

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