What to do with about 2 pounds of Anice white...

[moondanse]

that has a small hole running thru EVERY rod? Talk about shocky!
~~~When I bought this glass about a year ago, I didn't know to look for the hole in the middle of the rod--I just thought it was mostly unusable for me, except for the smallest diameters (and those are long gone). At this point, I have read enough on here and other places to know that the small hole in the middle of the rod is not good. I would have sent them back, but at the time, I didn't know any better, and I just kept trying to find a way to use them.
So...any ideas on how to use this stuff?

[WhiskerWood]

My anice white is super shocky too, I will have to see if there is a hole in my rods...
I only use anice for organics and when it blows up I just pick it up from my work table like frit LOL
It works but it is a PITA!!! Good Luck :grin:

[Doolollies]

I read this somewhere. Take a couple of rods and put it in the kiln and see if you can just slightly slump it pushing the air pocket out or just annealing it might help. I have a gob of Anise white shot thru with the proverbial air pocket. I did preheat the end of the rod in the kiln before I used it and it seemed to help but I haven't tried annealing the rods yet.
Linda

[dogmaw]

You can always make lots of frit. Looks really cool on black beads. :)

[Julabula]

ShawnT taught me to completely turn OFF my oxygen, and heat the shocky rods in a propane only flame. When it starts to glow, reintroduce your oxygen. The rods turn black from being in the propane, but once you reintroduce the oxygen, it all burns off and your glass goes back to normal. Works like a charm!!

~ Jules

[alexm]

Yep, What Jules said. Works for all shocky glass with bubbles in it.

[Cosmo]

I've had good luck taking the rods, cutting them into 2" sections, and placing them on a hot plate. One by one pick them up with tweezers, melt the end and stick the end right onto a bare mandrel. Then do the same with the other end. One by one, pick up the other short rods, heat them, and attach them to the first rod. Eventually you'll have a mass of short rods attached together with mandrel "punties" on each end. Start heating from the center and work outwards until it becomes a nice, soft mass. Keep heating, take it out of the flame, and pull it down into rod-size again. Then cut the rod off the mandrels and put it into the kiln to anneal. Once it's cool you can usually heat it up like a normal rod without losing most of it to shock.

[moondanse]

I will try the propane only thing, and, Cosmo, I'll sure try your suggestion if the easier thing doesn't work... ;-) (I'm all about easy these days...)

thanks, guys!!!

[Mr. Smiley]

Mayonaise jar... hold it so the rod explodes into it... use it as frit. :lol: Or, you could just come towards the light... boro won't explode when you put a rod into the flame and all our clear is good! :D

[PaulaD]

Mine were shocking like crazy until I started to put the whole half of the rod into the flame of a bigger torch (The WildCat). I have no idea why this works but it does...Paula