stringers of encased silverglass??

bless · #1 2012-07-12, 3:20am

how do I use stringers of silverglass? if you want to encase them, do you reduce them first and than encase?? does the color resist if you use the stringer and heat it??

or do you first make a stringer only of silverglas, use it on a bead, reduce it, and than encase it.
can you use layers without losing colors?????

thanks for all the advise,
groetjes Anja

silverlilly1 · #2 2012-07-12, 5:32am

I've only used striking glass encased as stringers, not reducing. Not sure how it would work with reducing ones, as if you get it too hot the glass would reset and wouldn't be reduced anymore. Tricky. Though I suppose it does have a little extra insulation from the heat with the encasing. I tried it with Terra 2, and got some colour, but still not as much as I would want.

Elizabeth Beads · #3 2012-07-12, 5:54am

You can get some interesting effects encasing reduced glass and pulling stringer. Not shiny, more mother of pearl looking, if you use them for scroll work. The stringers will look transparent but will opacity as you lay them down.

istandalone24/7 · #4 2012-07-12, 7:53am

mix a little raku and any striking/reducing glass and pull a stringer. raku and silver glass go hand in hand.

istandalone24/7 · #5 2012-07-13, 3:51am

a bit off topic, but has anyone had luck with the r-108 raku that is the coe 104?
i've got the coe 96 r108 and it's great. i've also got one rod of coe 104 raku...which i can't get to do anything save for mudsnot.

Elizabeth Beads · #6 2012-07-13, 6:49am

I love the 104 Raku. I suspect it may vary batch to batch. But I have had good luck with it, especially in twisties.

jaci · #7 2012-07-13, 5:50pm

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Originally Posted by istandalone24/7

a bit off topic, but has anyone had luck with the r-108 raku that is the coe 104?
i've got the coe 96 r108 and it's great. i've also got one rod of coe 104 raku...which i can't get to do anything save for mudsnot.

the 104 does nothing for me either.. i get a light milk chocolate mud! pretty mud, but very friendly's swiss chocolate sauce mud!

PS I have the very early stuff.

BeadedChic · #8 2012-07-14, 4:50am

I got a pound of the 104Raku about a year ago and have had some great success with it on black and greys...I've also mixed it lightly with pastel sea green, pulled it into a stringer, and use it for vine cane. Works really nicely when doing natural looking grape bunches.

I've not encased my silver glass stringers...might try it with the strikers as I have not been able to get really good colors from them (except those rare occasions when the planets are in perfect alignment!)