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Glass stainers colors from Reusche

Hi all My name name is Filippo. I live in Italy, and 'am painter on glass only about 3 years.

I need some info on Reusche colors: what are the differences beetween all the "white" colors offered by Reusche manufacturer? In catalog they have different withe: obscuring white 1400GS matting white 1402A white D201581 satin white D2070 white (again) D2617 satin etch D2788 white DX603 white DX660 white D20511 white DX692

There is somebody who can explain me the differences? i KNOW THE DIRENCES ABOUT ENAMELS, TRANSPARENT, BLENDABLE BLENDING......but not their specific use. Why or/and when use this one instead an other white. Many thanks.

Filippo from Italy

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fipodes
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The problem is that you have gone and taken White's from many different lists. Go back and look at the lists. You will find that all those categories you say you know about plus you will find, on the lists I looked at, the temperature that the colors fire at - some are low, some higher but will stay together through sagging of the glass for those who want to do it. Also, some of the white's have different compatibility with different glass. Obscuring White presumably blocks over other colors while some of the others would allow a color behind to show through. Satin White is a non-gloss surface. Satin Etch is probably a white that looks like sand blasting or etching.

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Mike Firth

Hi Mike thank you to answer me. You are right: there are colors from differents lists. What I need is know if some colors (white colors in this case) are subjet to follow some laws: requiered firing first the others colors (for example), what type of "white" you obtain, etc... some description are right: satin, etch, etc..... but, others description are....... "deceitful": see the four articles whiches are in the same categorie, but all with the simple description "white"....

Are you painter too, Mike? what kind of stained glass do you prefer?

Best regards.

Filippo from Italy

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fipodes

No, I am not a painter of anything but my own blown glass. There are no "laws". The melting temps show which colors will set at lower temps than those already set. You will have to run experiments to see how various colors melt. All the lists of Rausch colors I looked at had only one white, so named, in each list, with other named whites on some lists, so someone rearranged the list you were looking at. You are a lot closer to Rausch (in Germany) than I am.

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Mike Firth

There is a page in Albinus Elskus' 'the Art of Painting on Glass' that describes the use of what he calls 'obscuring white'. He lists 1400GS,

1402A, and D20511 as examples of obscuring white. You should obtain that book if at all possible Filippo.

Albinus states that obscuring white is used to reduce the transparency of colored glass without changing the color of the original piece.

I use D2617 painted heavily with a water medium to make an opaque shiney white enamel.

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db

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