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2006-10-29, 6:18am
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My favorite thing about boro....
well, besides the color of course, that's a given...
no bead release cleaning on offmandrel stuffs! yeah!
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2006-10-29, 6:22am
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Now you know why I have boxes of beads with POOP still in them!
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2006-10-29, 6:27am
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What??? I know nothing about Boro! You mean with boro you don't have to deal with bead release, or it burns off or WHAT? Explain yourself, please?
I have stuck beads (hangs head in shame)
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2006-10-29, 6:27am
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Ohhhh, is that what poop on a stick means?
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2006-10-29, 6:36am
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Mitz... On offmandrel work there is no bead-release used. You work right off the rod.
You will still have bead release if you make beads on a mandrel.
smiley: I still have a box of poopy beads from my softglass I just can't find the energy to deal with. lol. Yes indeed, I am slowly making the transition to boro only. It's just too..... tooo..... toooooo..... WONDERFUL!
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2006-10-29, 6:40am
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Ohhhh, I get it. Too much gin, sorry.
So is Boro mostly for sculptural work or what? Still sort of trying to get my head around all this. Terminology and all.
Boro is mostly for bigger stuff, right? Because it is more structural, etc? Am I totally off the mark? I am coming from a jewelry background and not a sculpture, glass work background, etc. and I still have a hard time seeing what is up with boro. Sorry.
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2006-10-29, 6:56am
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If you look at the new boro gallery started in this forum, you'll see some offmandrel pendants, but you can make beadst too. Heck you can make anything you want, it's all about your imagination and creativity!
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2006-10-29, 5:48pm
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My favorite thing about boro is how you can often get nice outlines around the colors where two colors meet....like outlined frit and such...does that make sense?? like this...you can see little outlines around the frit on the base bead. I like how the colors have so many tones and I love to wear jewelry made with boro beads because one set of beads can pick up so many different colors to match different clothes. And I like the luster you can get...and the transluscence...and...and...and... Now...there are definitely things I have problems with...but that would have to be another thread...
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2006-10-29, 5:51pm
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Oooo pretty!
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2006-10-29, 7:31pm
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My favorite thing about boro is the colors.
My SECOND favorite thing is - glass goes in flame. No popping rods, no splintering glass flying all over the place and down your cleavage. Just melting glass.....bliss.....
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2006-10-29, 9:22pm
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These are a few of my favorite things...
My second two are the same as Karen's, but reversed:
1) Being able to blow ornaments and vessels/small vases with a torch!
2) Not popping/cracking most of the time, it breaks my heart to see a nice floral in moretti crack, so boro is sooo much better for that, and
3) the wonderful unpredictability in certain colors, and great range of colors of one rod.
4) the price of boro clear is awesome, cheaper than soft glass.
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2006-10-30, 7:03am
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My SECOND favorite thing is - glass goes in flame. No popping rods, no splintering glass flying all over the place and down your cleavage.
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Uh you might want to ask Mr. Smiley about that !!! 
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2006-10-30, 9:35am
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Hey Jo, I did that on purpose... you were in my space.
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2006-10-30, 9:56am
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See now you understand Jo youve come to the dark side buwahahaha hehe its wonderful isnt it its addicting its beautiful its lovely it wonderful....its BORO!
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Originally Posted by sleekbeads
Mitz... On offmandrel work there is no bead-release used. You work right off the rod.
You will still have bead release if you make beads on a mandrel.
smiley: I still have a box of poopy beads from my softglass I just can't find the energy to deal with. lol. Yes indeed, I am slowly making the transition to boro only. It's just too..... tooo..... toooooo..... WONDERFUL!
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2006-10-30, 9:58am
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Yes, karin, it's wonderful and he's lying... I was half-way across the room... well ok, maybe two feet.
actually... it was pretty f'ing funny!
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2006-10-30, 10:06am
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Originally Posted by ShepherdCreations
4) the price of boro clear is awesome, cheaper than soft glass.
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Which is, unfortunately, offset by the fact that boro colors cost more
than diamonds. It's like torching with rods made from rolexes. Boro glass teaches
you to be frugal and stretch that glass to the last nub.
When the expensive silver glass (Kronos etc) went on sale, everyone was saying
"this glass is pricey, so here's some ways to make it last" - and all us boro
users were like, "been there, done that, yadda, yadda."
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2006-10-30, 10:24am
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I felt her breath in my ear.
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2006-10-30, 10:30am
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In search of her path....
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she was trying to suck your brains out your noggin lol
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2006-10-30, 10:35am
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He's just mad because I wouldn't accept his big rod.
bwahahahahahahahah! GOTCHYA GOOD SMILEY!
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2006-10-30, 10:35am
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Originally Posted by Karen Hardy
When the expensive silver glass (Kronos etc) went on sale, everyone was saying
"this glass is pricey, so here's some ways to make it last" - and all us boro
users were like, "been there, done that, yadda, yadda."
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More like "When the expensive silver glass (Kronos etc) went on sale, everyone was saying 'this glass is pricey, so here's some ways to make it last, and everyone else is getting these fabulous colors out of it, but it just turns to baby poop on me, and every time I put it in the flame it does something different' - and all us boro users were like, 'been there, done that, yadda, yadda.'"
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2006-10-30, 11:01am
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Originally Posted by Emily
More like "When the expensive silver glass (Kronos etc) went on sale, everyone was saying 'this glass is pricey, so here's some ways to make it last, and everyone else is getting these fabulous colors out of it, but it just turns to baby poop on me, and every time I put it in the flame it does something different' - and all us boro users were like, 'been there, done that, yadda, yadda.'"
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Oh, totally. Here's to wasting expensive glass while you try and monkey with it.
Let me know if you want to buy the worlds most expensive plain cobalt blue beads.
I made a bunch of these out of Kronos before I leaned how to work it.
My bad. 
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2006-10-30, 11:10am
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Originally Posted by Emily
More like "When the expensive silver glass (Kronos etc) went on sale, everyone was saying 'this glass is pricey, so here's some ways to make it last, and everyone else is getting these fabulous colors out of it, but it just turns to baby poop on me, and every time I put it in the flame it does something different' - and all us boro users were like, 'been there, done that, yadda, yadda.'"
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Truer words have never been spoken 
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2006-10-30, 1:17pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. Smiley
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No, that was me. I was blowing smoke up yer butt and I missed.
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2006-10-30, 1:53pm
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Originally Posted by sleekbeads
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No way, Ms.Jojopants!
Not sharing him.
My favorite thing about boro is Brent... 
I also like making seahorses. They don't look anything alike, by the way.
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2006-10-30, 1:54pm
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What are you talking about? I totally look like that!
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2006-10-30, 1:56pm
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Don't MAKE me pull out the Brent-in-duct-tape photos and compare them with a seahorse...
You know what, we should totally get a room.
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2006-10-30, 4:02pm
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totally...
and don't worry pretty hannah girl.... I don't want him for the same purposes you do.. lol.
He's my boro mentor, but after meeting him, I kind of latched on and feel a longing obligation to harrass him in a way no other can. It's become my destiny.
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2006-10-30, 7:27pm
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I think that it's a heroic task, Jo, and you should exploit it to its fullest potential... JUST SAYIN'!!!
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2006-10-31, 5:37am
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Can we get back on track here... don't make me moderate you ladies.
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2006-10-31, 5:48am
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Moderated by Smiley!!!
Hey, I'm the originator of the thread, so it's all good with me.
Neener neener neener.
oh, and I love turquesa, just to keep it on track.
there I said a boro thing, does that count?
lol
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