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HELP on Purples

Hi there folks,

I make a custom piece that I'm starting to get a lot of orders for - the customer can chose their color scheme. The colors gradate in three levels - think along these lines...

Blue would be (Spectrum colors)

130-8 Pale Bule 132 Light Blue 136 Dark BLue

Or red is:

151 Cherry Red 152 Ruby Red 1009 Black

But I'm having trouble finding a purple that A) I like and B) isn't a bitch to cut (like Bullseye). I'm looking for a blue base purple, not a red/rose base. I've used the following Bullseye combination but it's a p.i.t.a. to cut and the gold-purple and deep purple are expensive.

GBE1442 Neo-Lavender GBE1334 Gold Purple GBE1128 Deep Royal Purple

Anybody got any suggestions? AND a place where I can get it REPEATEDLY online (I need some place where I can go back and know that it will still be there and that they'll be likely to have the glass).

Am I stuck cursing Bullseye as I cut?

HELP!

Reply to
Tina P
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Nope, but believe it or not, you need to learn better cutting skills because Bullseye is a soft, easy cutting, glass. Take some scrap that you have left over, and you must have some if it cuts that bad for you, and make your normal cut, then cut it again lighter, and lighter and lighter each score lighter than the last until there is almost no mark on the glass. All cuts should be 3/8 to 1/2" apart. then using grozing or breaking pliers, NO RUNNING PLIERS HERE, break your scores.

You will, hopefully, find that you have been mashing too hard which is making the cutting more difficult, not easier.

Most people I run into use way too much pressure on the glass they are cutting, and once they have it in their heads that a particular class is difficult, they press harder.

IF this is not your problem, good, but a bit of practice with a glass you don't like to cut will open up your palette selection and you may find that "it's not so bad" after all.

IF that doesn't work, try Kokomo, go to their web page and they have a bunch of blue based purples.

Reply to
Javahut

Have you checked out Uroboros' colors? They have plum and violet.

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I think some companies carry Uroboros. You might look at Spectrum 96 colors. Though you would have to keep it separate from the 90 COE glass.

Reply to
C Ryman

are you fusing? If not, Spectrum has some new purples in their 96 line, but i have yet to see them. m

Reply to
Michele Blank

why not Spectrum: 140, 142 and 146. Available in Waterglass, Cathederals and artique.

Andy

Reply to
Andy T.

BE has a new purple - 1234-30F Violet, Striker

Its the first purple I've seen that I really like and is fusable. You can see it here:

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my monitor the on-screen color is pretty close to the real thing. It is a transparent color -- fused onto a sheet of white it is nice and bright.

- Paul

Izm Studio

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Reply to
Paul

Tried those colors Andy - they are more of a rose shade than a blue-ish base purple that I'm looking for. Pretty colors though!

"Andy T." wrote...

Reply to
Tina P

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