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

"nJb" wrote in message
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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

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.)

On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:57:18 -0700, nJb wrote:

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?

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.
--
Terry Harper
URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~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.

--
Mike Firth
Furnace Glassblowing Website
http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/
"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:57:18 -0700, nJb wrote:

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?

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.
--
Terry Harper
URL: http://www.btinternet.com/~terry.harper/

"nJb" wrote in message
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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?

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...

Try David New-Small he

http://www.hotstudioglass.com/david.shtml

I think he has some, used to . . . Brock

Javahut wrote:
"nJb" wrote in message
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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?


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...



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

Moonraker wrote:
"nJb" wrote in message
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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


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.)



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

Jack

Mike Firth wrote:

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.


A shiny black glass table top would be the ticket.

Jack

Brock wrote:

Try David New-Small he

http://www.hotstudioglass.com/david.shtml

I think he has some, used to . . . Brock


Thanks Brock. I addressed a query to them.

Jack