Help with Encased Nugget Beads

[cswilson53]

I would like to learn how to make decent encased nugget bead. Is the trick to make a small nugget, do your design and then encase which hopefully makes the nugget bead the next size up in the press??? Any advice greatly appreciated.... Thanks...

[Carolyn M]

This would be very difficult to do as the flattened nugget shape would be hard to encase properly. I make my design, roll it gently into a sort of sausage shape in the press, encase very thinly, then press.

[Bellagirl]

I agree with Carolyn. Keep the encasement as thin as possible. I make the base bead into a rolo (barrel shape first) I ususally have a few trys before I figure out how much ea size needs for glass.

Here's a bad pic of some dichroic beads I did last week into Nugget shape.

Hope that helps!
Jolene

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