Black plate glass

Back in the old days they used to cover store fronts with thick glass panels. I'm looking for some black plate. I've got blue and gray. Need

3'x3'. Anybody have any leads?

Jack

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nJb
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Call the US Coast Guard. I heard there was a container ship full of glass bound for Finland.

(I'll call some of the architectural salvage places around here next week and see if they might have any. I'm guessing you aren't expecting to find any "new" black plate? That would be like finding some 900F Weller tips. Too easy.)

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Moonraker

Pilkington used to make Vitrolite in various colours, using a small electric melter and float line. It closed down a long time ago. They were mostly fluoride opals, hence the cold-top furnace.

I don't know of anyone making a similar product today.

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Terry Harper

Try doing a Google Search on 'black sheet glass' instead of plate and see whether any one of the dozens of choices might meet your needs. You might talk to table top makers, but then what you think of as grey may be what I think of as black.

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Mike Firth

Ok, I won't know until Monday, for sure, but MAYBE I got a line on some, now tell me about the blue, is it light blue and can you get more? I had a guy send me some from Mass. that is looking for more, about 15 of them. I think they are the same 18" tiles as the black?

I'll send you an email if I can help, or even if I can't....there is something else I need to send to you, a big box of Craft Reports, still want them??? Go out to you Monday, finally got them all gathered up...

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Javahut

Try David New-Small here:

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think he has some, used to . . . Brock

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Brock

I've got a sheet of what I would call steel blue opal. 3/8" thick

41"x66" smooth on one side and rough on the other for mastic.

Maybe I should explain what I'm trying to do. It's for photography. I want a surface that reflects the light coming through the object. Right now I'm using a deep gray mirror but I get the double edge from the reflection of the glass surface.

Is there something else that is pure black, highly polished and can be obtained in a 3'x3' sheet?

I'd love to read the mags but it seems the postage would be sky high?

Jack

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nJb

Nope, not new. Just has to be shiny on one side.

Jack

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nJb

A shiny black glass table top would be the ticket.

Jack

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nJb

Thanks Brock. I addressed a query to them.

Jack

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nJb
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Formica?

Reply to
Moonraker

I'll check it out. Probably cheap enough to replace when it scratches.

Jack

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nJb

I had a load of it years ago, that I eventually threw out. They were trashing a showroom, and the stuff was so thick it remained unbroken through the demolition, so I grabbed a bunch. Never found a use for it.

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glassman

My guy had 18" squares, key word there is HAD, no longer there...he said they were scratched up pretty bad anyway...sorry about that

curious, what about a black plastic tray with a thin layer of water to reflect images?

Reply to
Javahut

And a couple of drops of oil in the water would produce a "dichroic" effect. Rainbows on the surface.

Jack...couple more thoughts. Expensive, probably. But food for thought.

How big is your kiln? Could you fuse some sheet black to a substrate and get what you need? If you did a white substrate, you could just flip it over if you needed a matte white background?

How about sheet metal and multiple coats of automotive paint and clear coat?

Sign makers vinyl applied to something smooth and rigid?

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Moonraker

maybe polished marble or granite? m

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michele

How about spray painting black on the back of 1/4" plate

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Vic

Ripples? But it might look good.

Jack

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nJb

I think marble it is.

Jack

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nJb

I have a 4x8 kiln, a fused surface might work.

Jack

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nJb

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