Reduction tips?

[pierces*designs]

Anyone want to share their tips on getting a good reduction from their Reich. glass? I did a bead this morning using raised Iris Green stringer and tried to reduce. I did get a peacock type of reaction, but my base glass (Moretti Teal) got black with carbon... :(

Tips? Techniques? Give it up? LOL

(of course, maybe doing beads at 5:30am before going to work is a bad idea and part of the problem?)

[Three Muses Glass]

I am totally in love with this stuff! 'Course before I 'got' it I hated it like a root canal. THEN when I went to Deb Crowley's class and saw it done I was soooo happy.\\:D/ Those were propane and tanked oxy set-ups and the fuel was turned up a bit until the candles got hmmm about 2 inches long or so and a sharp triangular shape I immediately thought of as mother-in-laws tongue. :-D Just a quick couple of wafts through the tip of the triangle and bling bling!
OK, then I got home to my set-up is oxycon's and natural gas. NG is maxed so I had to do the opposite and turn down the oxygen knob on the torch until I got teh same amount of mother-in-laws tongue. Joy, joy!
I can't tell you how many times I tried before actually seeing it done and reading about turning the propane up all the way and yada yada yada. I use a mini-cc, so your mileage may vary and yeah, 5:30 in the morning??? I think that's illegal.:-k

Oh, this works the same for me with the R-canes and the BE lusters and all the other redux stuff. Good luck Debbie!

[lripster]

\\:D/ OMG! I just sat down to ask a question about this. I love this place!!!!

I think you guys just answered it!!

Now I'm back at the torch to try it out, instead of reading!! I'll let you know how it goes.

Ain't synchronicity great!!!!

Thanks guys!:wink: