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Old 2011-10-12, 7:09pm
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I'm interested to know what shaped beads are everyone's favourites to make? Which focal bead shape do you like best? Which spacers?And if you have a shop, which shaped beads sell best? Are they they the same as what you like best, or is there a difference between what Joe Public like & what we, as glass makers like best?
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Old 2011-10-12, 7:31pm
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I like making either realistic sculptural beads or semi-abstract organic, asymetrical beads. I am bored to tears thinking about having to make rounds, donuts, tabs or any other "typical/classic" bead shape/forms. If I need donut-spacer beads to string with a pendant I've made, I prefer to buy them from Michelle @ The Spacer Queen, Marshall Jodie or Julie Miller on etsy. Special, odd-shaped spacers I will make myself, but that's it.

I don't know what sells best... I make what I like to make and ONLY accept custom orders in the same style of bead I like to make. If someone likes it and buys it, GREAT, if not, somebody else will eventually...

Interesting thread... I am really interested to hear what others have to say, especially about what bead types sell best
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Old 2011-10-13, 7:58pm
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Good question.

I don't have a favourite, although now that how to make hearts has 'clicked', I do a lot of those but in general, I just play around with whatever materialises on the mandrel. Hell, it's a year in two day's time, and I still can't do a decent donut!
Actually, wait. I do have a favourite which has been with me from day one - gloops! I always go back to gloops.

I don't have any specific shaping tools except a marver, a masher, tweezers and picks, so uniform beads aren't my thing - even if I did have presses to do sets etc.
I'm too 'freestyle' in anything I make, even knitting etc, so I prefer to just go with the flow
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Old 2011-10-13, 8:31pm
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I like to make long crunch pressed beads, cats, fish, plunged florals, hearts and egg-shaped beads. I also like to make beads on skeleton keys. I also like making sets of donut rounds because that is easy and relaxing for me.

As for what sells best, I have given up trying to figure that out. I may sell a ton of sets at one show and none the next, or a lot of beaded keys and then no beaded keys.

So, I make what I feel like making and as Joy said, if someone doesn't buy it someone else will.

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Old 2011-10-17, 6:51pm
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I love making doughnut beads with nice puckers. The more doughnutty the better. It feels like a failure when a bead ends up round. I have no idea why I want to force the glass into that shape, so don't ask.

Aesthetically speaking, I like lots of different shapes, from doughnut to round, from cube to lentil. I especially like animal sculpture beads, like the cute ones people make for BOC.
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Old 2011-10-17, 10:29pm
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Whatever is easiest for me and as long as they sell, that's all that matters. I don't stress myself with trying to keep up with everyone else.
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Lentils & focals (long, somewhat skinny crunch pressed focals are my fav). I just love the symmetric shape of a lentil and the pressed focal allows me to make more organic shapes. Can't say which one sells best, there's interest in both shapes I think.
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Old 2011-10-19, 9:18am
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I'm finding that it isn't so much the shape as what's going on in the bead that sells. I love making multi dimensional lentils and tube/bicone focals or sets of lentils and decorated spacers. Sculptured fall beads (pumpkins, acorns, candy corn, owls) are going well now and I'm starting to develop some winter holiday beads for later this month.

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