Okay...
Here are a couple pics of the brass frit shavings. You can see it's all different sizes and I think the larger curly pieces look pretty good in a bead.
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And here are my beads: Please note that the bead with the blue base cracked but neither of these were in the kiln and I had the blue based one out of the flame for a long time ogling over it. LOL!
Tomorrow I hope to play around with the torch and cook them in the kiln. I'll let you know how that goes.