Tips for Using Our New Crinklized Dichroic™

Crinklized Dichroic™ is MADE to be left exposed.  The intrinsic nature of this new coating is much more exaggerated when the coating is allowed to push upwards and crinkle, crystallize and curl.

• Many of the Crinklized sheets appear to have an unusual reflective color prior to hotworking, especially when the coating is viewed from the back side of a clear sheet.  This all fires away to reveal the same brilliant CBS Dichroic colors that everyone expects.
  
  
• Expect similar predictable color shifts when hotworking the new Crinklized Dichroic™ as with CBS original coatings.
  
  
• “Fire it hot”- For maximum effect, fuse the Crinklized Dichroic™ Coating to a peak temperature around 1475 degrees or higher.  (Not applicable to lampworkers and furnace workers)
  
  
• This crinkled and crystallized effect is maximized when we coat a smooth glass surface. Crinklized Dichroic™ coatings can be ordered on specialty glass or textured glass such as Ripple, Fibroid, Reed, and others, but the crinkled and crystallized effect is less dramatic.
  
  
• Crinklized Dichroic™ works best with solid Dichroic colors.  Rainbow sheets produce more linear crinkling than solid color sheets.  The Rainbow of crystals line up in the same direction creating a “grain” to crinklized Dichroic surface.
  
  
• All colors are “Premium” in price as we use the purest materials available at a price that cost us three times higher than our original coatings and coating times are much more lengthy as well.
  
  
• Order early – Expect some delays when ordering this hot new commodity, as we currently only coat to order.