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Old 2008-01-08, 9:14am
Mopnglo Mopnglo is offline
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Originally Posted by beadgoodies View Post
This bead needs to have a lot of encasing glass. Here's a side shot of the encasement:


You'll want to keep the heat ONLY on the center. In this design, the clear encasement glass will pull the dots out into triangles. If you use a thin layer of encasement glass and then tuck the ends in (like you would do for encased flower beads), the results will be drastically different. In this case, you WANT the distortion.

I hope that helps!

Candy

Candy thank you so much that side view is exactly what I needed to wrap my pea sized brain around the concept. Your aces!
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