Mixinitup!!!drillz!!!

[baylie]

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I started with 10 grams of super unobtainum,10 grams plum krazy,10grams colbalt 2,30 grams clear.

Then I coated the clear with the colors,
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Then Ipunty up to the drill,which has a piece of 7mm rod chucked up and good to go
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Next its time to twist it up!! I get most of the glass glowin then squeeze the trigger. I let the punty in my other hand spin with slight resistance from my thumb. the glass twists up pretty fast!
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I pull out and push in the punty to assist with the stirring. bending it helps as well

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Nice lump

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Paddled flat to see if it is mixed well

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mmmm shiny


Looks like it needs a little more mixin
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Removed from drill, puntyed to 10 mm
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Yeah I knw I shouldn't have my cans in the room.Modifications in progress
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arms too short? Use feet!
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Nice size pull. I cut the middle out, the most even and smooth bit. them mixed up and drew down again
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finished up and cut to size

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Well thats how I make my blue strikes to green sparkle stuff.

[baylie]

Sorry the pics suck, I really need a new camera!!

[Deb Hopeful Journeys]

Pictures are look fine to me. Thanks so much for showing us this!!

Deb in MN

[baylie]

Just be careful if you do this, my wife was hard to talk in to takin the pics.

[Over the Moon]

Way cool idea! Can't wait to try it...

[dogmaw]

What a great idea!!

[baylie]

I didn't come up with it thats for sure

[Cosmo]

Cool. I've heard a lot of people talking about mixing colors with a drill, but I couldn't figure out exactly what they meant. I've been doing it by hand (which sucks). Now I have to go find my drill...

[baylie]

I guess i should have put this in tips& tech, I don't work soft so I don't know how it would work...

[HardwoodTrailGlass]

Thanks baylie for taking the time to show how it is done!
Nice job.

[baylie]

The hard part was getting my wife to take the pics..I had to get it don anyhow, that color is sweet in beads, rakes, coilpots.... I can't make enough.
I am putting some in the borobox that is makin the rounds, with a print out of some recipes!

[e. mort]

Well, hopefully the box will go to you right before it comes to me. Then I can snag a rod of it before everybody else gobbles it up. :)

Eric

[HardwoodTrailGlass]

I am putting some in the borobox that is makin the rounds, with a print out of some recipes!

Right on!
I am sure it'll be gone before I get the box back, but hopefully I can recreate it w/ the recipe.

[baylie]

If I knew how many were after me I could throw in a rod for each. Any one who reproduces this color should post pics!! I like taking the butt ends that aren't allthe way stirred and balling them up and blowing them into the inside of a piece of 50x5 and then shaping that. Looks super cool.

[Tanya]

Thanks for putting the recipe in this thread. Since I've already had the borobox, I KNOW I won't be getting any...:sad:

[baylie]

Hopefully I will have time to put together an actual recipe book soon, with pics and tips,

[PyroAaron]

That's awesome! :koolaid:

[Tanya]

Yes!

[Over the Moon]

You rock Baylie! Can't wait - can't wait -can't wait!!!!!!!!!

[Ro]

cool, now i know what to do when my arm is killing me from making canes for fish fins!
ro

[baylie]

Another thing this is good for is making disco sparkle workable.

Coat a large diameter rod with disco, then coat with clear. Spin the bejuzs out of it then draw it down, wow smooth disco!!
I don't get it, you 'water' this stuff down and it looks even sparkleier(is that a word?). If you want a really cool color coat it in cobalt instead of clear on the last coat, this will give you 'DISCOBALT' mmm sparkles

[HardwoodTrailGlass]

Another thing this is good for is making disco sparkle workable.

Coat a large diameter rod with disco, then coat with clear. Spin the bejuzs out of it then draw it down, wow smooth disco!!
I don't get it, you 'water' this stuff down and it looks even sparkleier(is that a word?). If you want a really cool color coat it in cobalt instead of clear on the last coat, this will give you 'DISCOBALT' mmm sparkles


Thanks for the tips baylie.

[chayes]

used to do that stuff to make color with oxides when i first started blowing

[baylie]

used to do that stuff to make color with oxides when i first started blowing
Like I said I did not think it up, just thought I would share.
Chayes, would you mind sharing some recipes to use with this tech.? I know there are folks out there that would like to make their own colors from scratch.Thanks for any info you feel like sharing:waving:

[Tanya]

Yes - that would be interesting. I used to really like mixing up new colors with soft glass, but haven't done much mixing with boro yet. I'm still trying to figure out what the colors on their own will do.

[Juln]

I like mixing stuff too...
I haven't pulled ou the drill much lately, though.
I did today, and made a nice salmon color - GA Jasper with Silver Strike, one of my favorites. I guess it ends up sort of like Momka's Carribean Coral, with more tan.

[Tanya]

Sounds nice. I haven't worked with GA Jasper yet. Or Momka's Carribean Coral. Or most boro colors, come to think of it...

[baylie]

made a nice salmon color - GA Jasper with Silver Strike.
What ratio?

[Juln]

I don't know... I'm not looking for precision so I just kind of wing it.
Sometimes silver strike 3, sometimes 5, so that affects it a lot.
I would say theres a lot more Jasper than Silver Strike... maybe 2:1 or 3:1 Jasper to SS.

[chayes]

Like I said I did not think it up, just thought I would share.
Chayes, would you mind sharing some recipes to use with this tech.? I know there are folks out there that would like to make their own colors from scratch.Thanks for any info you feel like sharing

Its cool to see the drill busted out.

Mixing colors sux, something i don't wanna do again. Unless its mixing color rods together.The list of chemicals i used are in contemperary lampworking As for formulas i just played with mixing differnt combinations.

[Tanya]

I thought mixing colors from scratch would be fun until I read the warnings associated with the coloring agents. Then I thought about those powders floating around (I do have ventilation, but the powders would still float around.) Then I thought about the gasses released as I mixed at high enough heat to incorporate the color into the glass. Then I decided that I could be very happy just mixing already made color rods together!

[baylie]

I mixed equal parts unob and garnet the other day...trippy color

[Tanya]

Like what sort of trippy? Good trippy or bad trippy?

[rusticstudio]

I mixed equal parts unob and garnet the other day...trippy color

pic please?

[baylie]

pic please?
Used it all in one piece, If I make some more I'll get pics.......

[baylie]

I should be getting pics of disco getting 'watered down'....stay tuned...want to see discobalt as well?

[isellrejer]

Yes we want to see that too!!

Jerri

[baylie]

Yes we want to see that too!!

Jerri
Look at the 'disco is dead LONGLIVEDISCO' thread.

To get discobalt add cobalt before the second layer of clear, then mix just the same.

[baylie]

Coul someone move this to the tut section??? please?

[baylie]

Coul someone move this to the tut section??? please?
Pretty please

[baylie]

Pretty please
with a cherry on top!!

[baylie]

with 2 cherrys?

[dogmaw]

Nope. It will stay here forever and forever..... :lol: It will get moved faster if you pm Mr. Smiley. :)

[baylie]

Mr. smiley must not check his messages....

[dogmaw]

He is in Asheville for the next week, so he might be a bit slower than he usually is. :)

[baylie]

Hmmmmm? Slower than usual? is that a dig? hehehehe

[dogmaw]

Me? Innocent little me? Make a dig at Smiley Man? :badgrin:

[baylie]

Coul someone move this to the tut section??? please?
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