Can you work with billets?

[Anonymous]

Can you work with billets?  Gaffer makes a casting crystal with a high lead content – and beautiful refraction – but it is only available in billets.  These folks sell it:

http://www.glasscolor.com/colors/gaffer_casting.aspx

Firing lead glass is safe.  If you are going to do any cold-working/grinding/sandblasting then you really need to take respiratory safety seriously.  Breathing in ground lead glass is a bad thing.

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Paul
FusedGlass.Org
Helios Kiln Glass Studio
PaulTarlow.com