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Old 2013-03-15, 10:20am
silverlilly1 silverlilly1 is offline
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Here's what I do with the glass over striking colour. (I assumed you meant to get that hot pink Clio look)

1) I make an extremely thin layer of clear on my mandrel, about the footprint of the finished bead I want. I do this because I hear oranges and reds can be finicky about being encased, and I don't want to lose a bead that I've layered that much.

2) I lay a thin layer of striking (non-silver) glass on top.

3) I then encase the striking glass (non-silver) in clear. This is necessary because the striking orange, at the very least, has a yucky-coloured reaction if it comes into contact with silver glass.

4) I then strike the striking glass through the encasement.

5) Lay on as much silver glass as you want, being sure to not heat the center of the bead too much.

6) Finish any surface treatment of the silver glass before annealing.
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Last edited by silverlilly1; 2013-03-15 at 3:23pm.
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