New Tutorial - 3 beads, a button, a hollow and a 'V' shape

[EvanH]

Hey all - I just posted the new tutorials for November / December. http://www.dawnandevan.com/tutorials.htm This one (actually 3) is called "3 Beads". There is a brief studio tour and then 3 tutorials/demos. A button on a button mandrel, a hollow bead on a hollow bead mandrel and a 'V' shaped bead on a triangle mandrel.

I hope you all enjoy - stop on by and take a peek.. Let me know how you like these...

- Evan

email: evan@dawnandevan.com

web: www.dawnandevan.com

[Hope]

I sooo want to see this tutorial but I can't view it. It won't let me click on it.
Hope it isn't just me.

Hope

[Livonia Glass Studio]

I can't see it either.

[EvanH]

Originally Posted by Hope

I sooo want to see this tutorial but I can't view it. It won't let me click on it.
Hope it isn't just me.

Hope

Make sure that you have the latest version of Macromedia's Flash loaded. It's a free download at www.macromedia.com

After loading the player, close ALL browser windows and then come back and retry.

- Evan

[Hope]

Two of them are now there but No.1 isn't there yet. The hollow one was very good. I haven't had time to view No.3 yet but No.1 is the one I really wanted to see. Making a button.
Thanks so much for your tutorials they are sooo good!!!

Hope

[EvanH]

Originally Posted by Hope

Two of them are now there but No.1 isn't there yet. The hollow one was very good. I haven't had time to view No.3 yet but No.1 is the one I really wanted to see. Making a button.
Thanks so much for your tutorials they are sooo good!!!

Hope

Hope - I just reformated the pages to put each one on a seperate page. The 1st one would show up but took several minutes to load because it is almost 3 times the size of the other two. Each one is now on it's own page and I changed the window size so that they should appear about twice as large as before.

Let me know how that works for you -

- Evan

email: evan@dawnandevan.com

web: www.dawnandevan.com

[Hope]

Evan- It worked perfect!! Thanks sooo much!

Hope

[EvanH]

Originally Posted by Hope

Evan- It worked perfect!! Thanks sooo much!

Hope

No problem - my pleasure! Let me know how you like them!

[J. Savina]

Great tuts Evan. One question. How do you get the v-shaped bead off the mandrel? I see that they are 2 separate mandrels making the v-shape, but I would think that it would be a little difficult getting them off one at a time. Is there a trick to it? Thanks for all the hard work getting these great tutorials up. I've enjoyed watching them and learning from them. You're super!!!

J.

[EvanH]

Originally Posted by J. Savina

Great tuts Evan. One question. How do you get the v-shaped bead off the mandrel? I see that they are 2 separate mandrels making the v-shape, but I would think that it would be a little difficult getting them off one at a time. Is there a trick to it? Thanks for all the hard work getting these great tutorials up. I've enjoyed watching them and learning from them. You're super!!!

J.

Hi - Removing the 'V' shaped bead is actually much easier than it might seem. The two clips on the "T" portion of the handle have set screws, simply loosen them and the the entire "V" shape removes from the handle and then you can remove each of the legs from the bead independantly. Then you can either thread a cord through the legs (takes practice) or epoxy a wire loop in each leg and string through those loops.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the kind words -

- Ev

[glassdragonfly]

Wow, Evan, these are amazing tutorials!!! Thank you so much for putting in all the work to make them available. Really great work.

[Tutti-frutti]

Hi. I could use some technical help. Thw Video stops after every 2 minutes and it takes at least 10 min to go onto the next 2 min of showing. i left it on to see if it loading wbut it does not. and it keeps starting from the beginning. what is it that I need to do for it to run. This is a 1 year old computer eith plenty of space, but I run aol through the phoneline. no fast internet.
any ideas
Katja thanks

[EvanH]

Originally Posted by Tutti-frutti

Hi. I could use some technical help. Thw Video stops after every 2 minutes and it takes at least 10 min to go onto the next 2 min of showing. i left it on to see if it loading wbut it does not. and it keeps starting from the beginning. what is it that I need to do for it to run. This is a 1 year old computer eith plenty of space, but I run aol through the phoneline. no fast internet.
any ideas
Katja thanks

Katja - My guess as to the reason why it is stopping is you are not on a high speed link (most likely on a conventional analog modem). Video over an analog modem is a tough go. During the 10 min interval it is loading the next 2 minutes of video onto your machine. Here is a suggestion for you though that may help some...

Right click on the video window before you start to play the video. Select "Quality" and set that to low. Then Right click on the video screen again and select "Settings" and move the slider all the way to the right (see the attached picture.). Now when you go to play it may take quite a while for it to start, but once it does it should have buffered much more of the video to your local machine so it should not start and stop as much.

This doesn't substitute for a high speed connection but it should help some. The other alternative would be the DVD's that I have to offer. The upside to the DVD's is they will play in any DVD player and they are FULL SCREEN, not a window on your pc.

Also it's not available yet on our website but I have a new compilation DVD that has all 3 of the first tutorials available. (Studio tour with button beads, hollow beads and 'V' shaped beads, the silver core tutorial and the tutorial on making and anodizing niobium bead caps.) Drop me a note if you have any questions.

Hope that helps some -