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I would imagine you would also need to put a farely thick base color to give the mesh some depth. When I try I will put a mound of glass before laying down the mesh, then when you pull the edges hopefully I'll get deeper protrusions???????????????
It will be fun trying though.
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wow Shelley that looks pretty good.
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I got it to work as well, but of course I wanted to make a lentil and then pressed it and it kind of messed it up. I haven't figured out how to squish it through the mesh and press the bead. Any ideas??
sorry for the really bad pic!!!
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Thanks Lynne.
Amy that is one gorgeous bead!!
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You can buy copper mesh at Michael's. They have copper and brass in rolls and in that area they have copper mesh. They have different sizes, some very fine like used to make sifters for glazes and some with holes about 1/8 inch. I have a bunch, it's not expensive.
http://www.sculpt.com/catalog_98/wireform/WireForm1.htm
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2008-05-31, 11:21am
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Thanks Michelle
I have a better pic I am going to load in a min.
ok here's a better pic that isn't so blue
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My pleasure Amy and it's still just as gorgeous in the new pic.
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This is for Michelle,
Thanks for the copper mesh and the extra glass too.
I got home and played immediately and this was my result, Im very pleased and could not wait to show you!
I won't have much time to play today
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Wow Astrid, your bead is amazing! Are you going to share your technique with us?
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This is for Michelle,
Thanks for the copper mesh and the extra glass too.
I got home and played immediately and this was my result, Im very pleased and could not wait to show you!
I won't have much time to play today
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Now if those are the colours you got out of Luna or Terra , I'm gonna cry crocodile tears.
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Oh, Astrid! Fab...this is the effect we are all dying to figure out!!! Good for you...love it!
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Wow Astrid. That is fantastic. Good for you.
My granddaughter has just left so its back to making beads tomorrow. Are you going to share some secrets???????? pleeeeeease.
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Wow Astrid, that is a great bead.!!!
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Thanks guys,
I used the tips on that everybody gave, so it is not mine to hog.
I have a base bead of black, then add on one side along the length of the bead a couple of stripes of ivory dont melt it all down. Heat the ivory enough so that the mesh will stick. I used a 3cm long piece of mesh and pre-bend it to go over the ivory, then add your blob of clear glass ontop of the mesh, heat the clear without melting away the extra coper wich is sticking out. When it is nice and soft pull on the copper, heat more, pull the copper on the other side. add more glass as desired and squeeze the glass.
If you don't come right with my instruction just ask.
The color on the first bead is Khaos and the other one has terra in it.
bye now!
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I tried this last night with some results. The hard thing is what to do with the terribly misshapen bead after you pull on the mesh. lol
You have to pull on all sides to get good blobbies. Heat it up, and it has to be pretty well heated, pull on the mesh, do the other side. Then you end up with a blob of glass on the mandrel that does not look so good. Except the one clear side with the mess on it.
Astrid figured out what to do with it pretty good!
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Thanks Astrid. this is the first thing I am going to try tomorrow.
Thank you so much.
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Thanks Astrid, you are an absolute star to share your technique, I will try this tomorrow and hopefully my bead will look half as good as yours.
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For those who are still having difficulty with this technique, I will be publishing a tutorial on it, with photographs. Just not sure of the publication date.....I'll keep you posted!
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Can hardly wait... ! Looking forward to it!
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Awesome bead Astrid !!!!
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Gorgeous bead Astrid! Thanks for the tips because I'm having the same experience as Kevan and I can't wait for Sherry's tutorial to be posted.
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Thanks SO much!!! I've been watching and watching, LOL!! Tapping my foot, waiting and waiting...NOW, off to the store to get some mesh!! Thanks again for the explination! What a sweety!!!
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Oops I posted this and it didn't show up. I must have hit preview.
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Oh, wonderful Kevan!!! Just gorgeous...
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Astrid & Kevan ~ gorgeous. Simply gorgeous!!!
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Thanks. I didn't know what to do with the bead after I got it all squooshed. lol
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LOL! Well, for not knowing what to do with it after you squooshed it, ya done good! Where did you get the copper mesh, and what size did you get? I'm looking for some 'cause I've gotta jump on this bandwagon!!
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You know at first yall were saying push the copper now you're saying pull the copper, I'm getting so confused. OBVIOUSLY Astrid and Kevan AREN"T!!!!!!!!!!!!! All I have is the tiny mesh copper so I'm waiting for the larger, I sure hope I can get something near as pretty!!!!!
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I got it at Michael's. They sell rolls of copper to do repousse' and stuff. They have the copper mesh in the same area. I think it's about 1/8th of an inch. Maybe it's 1/4. You can stretch it to make the holes bigger.
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