Help with silver glass
 

I received a gift of several silver glass rods and shards. Having studio in storage last 5 years, can someone help me with this? Heat, fuming, encasing? I am now working on a minor with oxy-con. Getting used to the flame, much different then my mini cc that was stolen.

There are so many different ones out there, and so many of them have their own tips, so that's a very broad question.

Plus, there's tons of great info in threads already. Have you tried searching the library?

I haven't seen that many shards encased...there are some really neat effects with those!

The rest, it would just a matter of preference and working style. There are quite a few threads but you would have to go back a few to get to the ones that are specific. There isn't so much out for a lot of the newer ones, I have noticed.

There are also some nice tutorials. Anouk and Hayley did a few, and I can't recall the rest offhand. Some are listed in the paid tutorial section, and I think a few of those are on Etsy.

Glad you are getting things back to normal :)

Thanks, I have been researching the library. I am just hesitant to put one of these precious rods in the flame as they are so expensive!

You can learn a lot by just heating the tip of the rod, not even really using it. If it's transparent it's likely a reducer, try heating the tip in a neutral flame and seeing if it changes. If not, turn down your oxy and try reducing - what do you get? If it's opaque, you most likely need to strike it. Try heating a very small area of the tip, cool it down and reheat. That should give you an idea of what it will do. Try melting a teeny dot of clear over where the color changed - did that change too? Now you have less than a half-inch of a rod that shows what the color will do, and you haven't really "used" it. You can still apply it to a bead, even if it's not going to restrike fully or reduce fully a second time.

Thanks jenny.