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SuzyQ
2006-02-17, 8:31am
They make terrible goldstone stringer. They don't make pretty goldstone looking beads. What do you do with them?
cghipp
2006-02-17, 8:39am
I use mine as dust catchers. They work great - still going after five years!

Courtney
pierces*designs
2006-02-17, 8:40am
I have taken two (one in each hand) and melted the ends and mixed them together like I was mixing batter. This gets the goldstone all the way through the rod instead of a thin coating outside. Then I pull the blob out into the size stringer I want.
PaulaD
2006-02-17, 9:40am
I use them in organics for sparkle!!
Paula
hummingbird3172
2006-02-17, 9:11pm
Try using one to encase goldstone chunks! Talk about sparkle! You get double the glamour factor!

I also like to use them for dots with a subtle sparkle....and I make starfish with them....I really love them a lot! :)
DesertDreamer
2006-02-17, 10:25pm
Throw 'em away and pull your own! It's easy, and a LOT less expensive.
Moth
2006-02-19, 8:09am
I bundle three or four together, melt them into a gather at the tip and make twisties out of them. This triples the sparkle and makes it kinda dance around in a vortex. I like to use this twistie as if it were a normal stringer.

~~Mary
Free2bead
2006-03-07, 1:36am
I make beads with them encased in either amber (any shade) or rubino. Very pretty effect.

-Lyn
cghipp
2006-03-07, 5:15am
Lyn and Mary - I really like those ideas! My problem with the goldstone filigrana is that it is SO shocky, it makes Anice White seem stable. Maybe I'll nip off some small lengths, preheat them in the kiln and try some of these ideas.

Courtney
Moth
2006-03-07, 9:30pm
Lyn and Mary - I really like those ideas! My problem with the goldstone filigrana is that it is SO shocky, it makes Anice White seem stable. Maybe I'll nip off some small lengths, preheat them in the kiln and try some of these ideas.

Courtney

Hi Courtney!

Bundle the three full-sized rods together, about six inches from the working end, and then again further back. Prop that bundle into your kiln as you do some other things, once it is preheated, it should behave fairly well.

Just be sure to leave enough hanging out of the kiln so you can hold onto it! I didn't the first time, it got hotter further up than I thought it would.

:lol:#-o