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Category: Technical Articles 2000

Sarah Wilson

After many months of letters and faxes and with the help of a Japanese colleague Vitrum Signum has at last stocks of the much talked of Kujaku Ruby Red 105A and Rich Ruby Red 105B on its shelves; and the wait – and sometimes frustration – was worth it.

My initial tests on copper and sterling silver were as I’d hoped. They can both be fired directly on silver to a true ruby red – the 105B just slightly darker than the 105A – without the adverse reaction normally associated with other transparent reds; what I called “Jamminess” with repeated firing as the colour gets denser and dead-looking. Applied over SOJE3 Silver Flux their colour can only be described as Cerise Pink, again the 105B a slightly deeper richer tone.

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