Basic Silver
Silver mirrors reflect all wavelengths of light so they
reflect an object's true colors. Your bathroom and rear
view mirrors are silver.
Use Silver Chemicals to make new silver mirrors, antique
silver mirrors and brilliant, opaque gold mirrors.
Silver mirrors are easy to make:
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Require only one sensitizer - Tin for
Silver
You must sensitize the glass before you
mirror it.
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Faster than other metals
A silver mirror forms in 5 minutes.
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Help you refine your technique
You can easily identify problems because you know
what a silver mirror looks like.
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Our 30 minute DVD,
Creating a Mirror on Glass: Silver &
Gold, shows you step-by-step how to mirror sheet glass
with silver and how to Angel Gild sheet glass.
We include a copy in our Sheet Glass Mirroring Kit. You can
use the concepts outlined in the video to mirror blown and
3-D glass.
To get started with silvering glass you will need:
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a Sheet Glass, Blown Glass or 3-D Glass Mirroring Kit (depending on the shape of your glass)
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Refill silvering supplies (available below)
Our
Mini-Silver Kit (sold below) offers you a
bare-bones way to preview the mirroring process.
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It does not include all the tools mentioned in our
instructions
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It does not include its own written instructions
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You can refer to our Mirroring Kit instructions to
fill in the gaps
