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Originally Posted by Ari'elle
Thank you for the great tips Dawn! My problem is when I think its hot enough, I also start to lose the shape or I don't get the cool colors until the raku stringer has spread a great deal and I would rather have thinner detail lines. My stringers are pretty thin, a mil or less. Maybe I'm overheating? Those rainbow dots are very cool!
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Okay....maybe we can fix that too. To get good colors out of your scroll work without having it spread too much, try this.
Make your bead and apply the raku scrollwork or lines or whatever, but leave it raised. Spot heat your raku design and chill and flatten with a little metal spatula or butter knife. Heat and chill and flatten until you've coaxed some colors out of the raku. At this point you can
gently heat your bead back up to a low glow to shape it up or squish it in a press, just being careful not to get it too hot again.
Once you've "chilled" the colors into your raku, it will stay there unless you overheat it, and then it could go back to browns again.