Italian Glitter Lamp Restoration

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Comment by Kirk on January 19, 2015 at 6:48pm

Thanks, Carol.

Shawn - I think it would look great.

Comment by Carol on January 19, 2015 at 2:45pm

That is utterly fascinating to look at!!!!!!!    Great restoration kirk!!!

Comment by Dr. WHAT?! on January 19, 2015 at 11:16am

Nice! I think this would work out great for my darkside of the moon lamp with your large holographic glitter :)

Comment by Kirk on January 19, 2015 at 11:14am

You are smart, Shawn.  That's exactly what I did - let painted globe set on the base to dry/cure the paint.  The paint works great!

Comment by Dr. WHAT?! on January 19, 2015 at 11:07am

That is awesome! I may have to get some of those glass paints myself, I take it you didn't need to put the glass in the oven to bake the paint on right cause the bulb is baking it instead?

Comment by VOXul on January 19, 2015 at 10:36am

WOW, the painted gels on the bottom set the silver glitter off into the realm of the holo! That looks awesome!

Comment by Kirk on January 19, 2015 at 10:10am

It's small square (.035") silver glitter.  It's much smaller (large square is .250") and it's not holographic.  The small silver glitter gets it color from the painted bottom.

There was just enough red, green, and blue paint left on the the bottom for me to see how it was originally painted.

The paint is Pebeo vitrea 160.  A transparent paint for glass.