I absolutely love to work with Reichenbach Iris Dark brown (COE 96) at the torch, all the colors, including the white/blue devitrication.
Now I just started learning (hopefully at some point) glass blowing and am trying to get R-106 to work for me. So far I'm only getting white/pale yellow.
These are the colors I'd like to get (torched beads):
And this is all I can get blowing so far - all the white/pale yellow is R-106:
(I know, wobbly and all, "banana vase", a newbie piece... but just to show you the color issues I'm talking about.
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I tried to research this but no luck, sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm stuck after many tries. I tried the color on the surface and also encased (I'm working with frits & shards), no change - still just white/pale yellow.
We tried changing the glory hole flame settings but still no luck. I'm aware of that it might be hard to get the full color range without a torch cause I can't do spot treatment in the glory hole really. But for now I'd be more than happy to get at least some brown tones instead of the all white/pale yellow.
Any clues/tips/ideas??
If I'm totally in the wrong place here, my apologies and please don't get mad, any pointers to where else to go are more than appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance!