question about opaque/opal glass regarding spacers?

[Lisi]

I would like to add spacers to my ebay store...heck, I pay the $15.95 a month just to have the darn thing! I really need to start putting things in it.

I would like to offer plain spacers in different sizes, so I have this nit-pickin' question to ask:

What glasses are there out there that make nice evenly colored opaque/opal spacers?? I get kind of irritated with some of the Effetre/Vetrofond colors that make those "lines" around and around the dang bead. Sigh...because some will have that, some won't and it makes me crazy. (do I need psychological help?? Well, maybe I do, but not regarding this, lol)

I really like BE's Petal Pink, oooh, it is so sweet and smooth! Makes great little spacers. Wish I could get Salmon Pink to do the same, but that will never happen for me..oh well..

Some of the Uroboros colors work nice, like the Almond. Oh, yeah, I have tried Effetre's opalinos, but it's such a PITA and they turn out okay. Lot of fuss and muss though, and a few messed up ones along the way.

Any fuss-free easy working glass you can think of?? (besides 104 black and white, lol!) I would really appreciate the help! :)

[LyndaJ]

If you're talking BE
Spring green opal, the new Buff color, robin's egg, baby blue, sable, any of the yellows, cinnabar, plum, nougat - I don't get lines with these.

[Lisi]

If you're talking BE
Spring green opal, the new Buff color, robin's egg, baby blue, sable, any of the yellows, cinnabar, plum, nougat - I don't get lines with these.

Thanks, Lynda! I love BE, but mostly work with 104. One of these days I will get the big stocking order from Bullseye, and will end up hooked from then on. ;)

[darcy]

The messy colors seem to work really well for spacers. I especially like the pinks.

[lunamoonshadow]

You could go look at MM Art Glass's link in her siggy line. She's the "queen of spacers"! Hers are just the bestest! (I'm sure you could get a good feel for what she's able to get without those pesky lines just by looking at her colors. I just :love: her perfect little spacers!)
Motherbeads/Renee has a nice display of what each color looks like on her site as well.

[Lisa]

... make those "lines" around and around the dang bead. Sigh...because some will have that, some won't and it makes me crazy.

I work with BE, and not really knowing any better since I'm so new at it, I often get too big a glob of glass soft before I put it on the mandrel, and I can sometimes get a little tiny bit to touch the mandrel, and then it's like an avalanche as I spin the mandrel and end up actually getting a thicker application at the end of the wind ... the glass kind of "falls" onto the mandrel. Talk about bass ackwards, but half the time I don't get the lines on the beads that way. When I manage to wind them on "properly" I do get the lines, which I often cover with an SIS down the middle, so I often end up with 4 plain and 4 striped beads in a spacer set. FWIW

[swamper]

The only Moretti/Vetrofond opaque colors that I get those lines on are turquoises and greens. Everything else is pretty uniform in color.

[Captured Light Glass]

All of the Satake colors stay solid too and make a good spacer because it can be worked quickly (low melt point).

[Lisi]

All of the Satake colors stay solid too and make a good spacer because it can be worked quickly (low melt point).

Yeah, I thought about that too! I have to get my HH hooked back up before I melt that, because the Bobcat is way too hot! Like twirling a little gob of pudding on the mandrel. Even on a low flame I burn a lot of things still, so that's why I love my HH.