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2011-04-20, 12:37am
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I'm going to join the "I'd like to buy some crackberry" crowd. I have wanted to snag some to mess around with - rubino is hating me and I want to see if I can get better colors from cranberry. If anyone is willing to sell me some because it is cracky, I'd love a bit.
Sheila, the lentils are pretty! It is a bummer that they cracked, they remind me of homemade lollipops.
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2011-04-20, 7:29am
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Originally Posted by glassactcc
Well, so far for me the best Cranberry color has been Gold Ruby from Olympic Color Rods. I don't like Rubino and I guess yet again, there is another color I cannot use. At least for encased beads. It looks more pink in the picture. Mine is cranberry color.
http://www.glasscolor.com/products/d...D=121&pID=1777
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Actually I like this color. Transparent??
I have never used this brand of glass before. How does it compare?
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2011-04-20, 1:55pm
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I love CIM glass, so easy to work with and great colors.
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2011-04-20, 4:13pm
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Originally Posted by misspiggy
Actually I like this color. Transparent??
I have never used this brand of glass before. How does it compare?
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Christy, I personally LOVE reichenbach glass. They have a pink pearl glass that has a shampoo sheen to it that I just adore, too. Oh, and the lipstick is just the perfect bright red and photographs red, not brownish red like Effetre, under fluorescent lights.
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2011-04-20, 5:58pm
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I think the batches from this year are cracking. I've got some from a year ago and it's fine- this reall sucks! Susan, may take you up on the dark, I've got some~
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2011-04-20, 6:04pm
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Originally Posted by emkay
I'm going to join the "I'd like to buy some crackberry" crowd. I have wanted to snag some to mess around with - rubino is hating me and I want to see if I can get better colors from cranberry. If anyone is willing to sell me some because it is cracky, I'd love a bit.
Sheila, the lentils are pretty! It is a bummer that they cracked, they remind me of homemade lollipops.
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Just shot you a PM...
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2011-04-21, 10:23am
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I've been very interested in this thread because I had ordered 3# of CIM Cranberry and it is coming next week to our other place where I go in the spring and I only have a HH torch there.I saw this thread after I ordered the glass.Today I have been packing up all my glass I want to have down there and have to confess that I found I am not the smartest bulb in this box I ALREADY had a pound of both the dark and lighter CIM Cranberry and didn't know it.The darker's number is 511926-2 as opposed to the lighter 511926. What I ordered is the lighter..the darker wasn't offered and it was advertised as opaque..which it isn't but I knew that anyway and didn't want opaque.Sangre is a nice opaque dk pinkish close to red BTW..but..what's gonna crack? All of it??Geesh...but I was a blond baby..lol..sorry blondies..was joking.
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2011-04-21, 3:20pm
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Originally Posted by loribeads
Christy, I personally LOVE reichenbach glass. They have a pink pearl glass that has a shampoo sheen to it that I just adore, too. Oh, and the lipstick is just the perfect bright red and photographs red, not brownish red like Effetre, under fluorescent lights.
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Thanks for this tip.
Is Olympic Color Rods the vendor you guys use to get Reinchenbach??
And what is this "bundle" price? is this like 1/4 pound price??
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2011-04-21, 7:17pm
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A bundle is 1/4 kilo approx. which is about 8.8 ox. if I remember correctly.
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2011-04-21, 7:46pm
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It melts very nicely, similar to CIM. It does not metal like Rubino so you don't have to worry about working it cool. I really like it.
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Originally Posted by misspiggy
Actually I like this color. Transparent??
I have never used this brand of glass before. How does it compare?
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2011-04-21, 8:07pm
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Have any of you tried any of the Devardi cranberries? I have yet to have them crack on me. However, I haven't encased with them yet. They don't get livery or go gray like rubino sometimes does. Just a nice rich juicy cranberry color!
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2011-04-21, 9:10pm
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The Devardi is nice too. I just wish the canes were smaller.
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2011-04-22, 10:40am
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The cranberry I just bought from the local glass shop seems fine
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2011-04-24, 6:56pm
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I've been disappointed with everything I've tried from CIM.
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2011-04-24, 7:32pm
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I love everything I have tried from CIM.
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2011-04-24, 7:45pm
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I wanted to try some Devardi rose or cranberry as "Crackberry" substitute.
How would they compare?
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2011-04-25, 7:22am
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Devardi Rose is a gorgeous fuchsia/magenta color but the rods have a lot of inclusions and seed bubbles. Devardi Cranberry looks more cherry red to me.
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2011-04-25, 8:04am
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Devardi Rose is a gorgeous fuchsia/magenta color but the rods have a lot of inclusions and seed bubbles. Devardi Cranberry looks more cherry red to me.
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Fuchsia is actually the color I am looking for. I guess they have rose or dark rose. Is one brighter/better than the other? Maybe I should try their pink variety pack. I am willing to try it.. It's certainly reasonably priced. But I guess they do have their issues.
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2011-04-27, 8:28am
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I love everything I have tried from CIM.
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Same here.
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2011-04-28, 10:06am
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I love everything I've tried from CiM too. I don't have the cracking cranberry so I can still say that.
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2011-05-09, 5:50pm
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I did this bead as a test of whether or not the cranberry I have is crackberry....yup, it's crackberry. It cracked about 6 hours after I got it out of the kiln and cleaned it. Plus it went all livery and ugly, too. Bleh.
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2011-05-09, 5:56pm
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Yikes.
Sorry to hear that Lori.
And you didn't use it as an encasing either. So, it cracks no matter what.
Is that CIM Peace that you use as dots?
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2011-05-09, 6:01pm
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It's just cracking even by itself? wow.
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2011-05-09, 6:01pm
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The dots are pastel lavender blue or opaque ink blue or whatever they call it now.
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2011-05-09, 6:02pm
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It's just cracking even by itself? wow.
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It's encased in effetre clear.
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2011-05-09, 6:02pm
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Lori, is it just cranberry and the dots? No clear or anything? I would think that would be safe even with different COEs.
Oops. You slipped your response right as I posted. Nevermind.
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2011-05-09, 6:03pm
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So when was this batch out? Not that I can remember when I bought mine, lol.
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2011-05-09, 6:03pm
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It's encased in effetre clear.
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oh, ok.
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2011-05-09, 6:03pm
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I made a large pressed lentil with cranberry, dichro, and white swirls on top. Probably a thin clear encasing due to the dichro.
It cracked down the mandrel on both sides. So I figured I didn't reheat enough, heated it thoroughly to glowing and popped it back in the kiln, and it did the same thing again.
Not creating any faith in CiM here...
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2011-05-09, 6:10pm
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I think this is just a funky batch of one color. I don't think it's a CiM problem, per se.
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