Can you paint a piece of glass black and make a mirror?
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You would be able to get a dull reflection, but not a mirror as you think of one. If you have a specific piece of glass, that is very odd shaped or whatever that you just MUST have made into a mirror, take it to someone who does mirror silvering. There are some places in larger cities that do mirror re-silvering. Such as for an antique mirror. There is no way that I am aware of that you could do it yourself satisfactorily.
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Not black. But there is a specialty paint to use, it is more of a silver. Then maybe you use a black topcoat.
Not black. But there is a specialty paint to use, it is more of a silver. Then maybe you use a black topcoat.
Black is only one coat. You also need a coat of mirrored silver paint on the glass, then paint the black OVER that. Black paint isn't reflective enough to work on its own.
then you would just have a black piece of glass
Not really - then you will have a piece of glass that's black on one side.
A mirror has a REFLECTIVE surface with glass on top. So maybe if you painted it silver, or something else metallic that reflects, you'd do better.
No- what would cause the reflection- you need Silver coat first-
If you wanna really make a mirror, its called "silvering". Its more a pain in the *** to do than anything else, but if you really wanna do it, you can make some very very unique things.
Try this site for more info on doing it at home:
small area, burnt window frame?