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Old 2010-01-05, 10:52pm
Kym Kym is offline
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Originally Posted by Fine Folly Glassworks View Post
Do you encase it? And if so, how do you avoid overheating it?
The one fully successful application was deeply encased, way deep. I put a thinnish layer of clear in a tube on a mandrel,wound on the dichro (its thin and easy to put on) then I covered it in light amber trans. until very deep, Then I slowly and carefully melted the outside and marvered smooth. I ended up crunching a little too. I think my encasing that day was pretty good and I didnt have to marver it much, which helped. When I melted the outside, I aimed the flame at almost 45 degrees to the bead surface....a glancing hit on the outside to try and keep the dichro as cool as possible and not reheat the centre of the bead much.

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Kym