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2010-08-22, 7:49am
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Yellow ice -- pink lemonade?
So.... as I remember it, yellow ice was called lemon ice because of the unfortunate connotations of yellow ice, but I labeled mine yellow ice and that's how I see it usually referred to.
I used some the other day after seeing Dawn's beautiful use of fire lotus over it (no such luck, but I'm making progress), and after I put the rod down I noticed it had a pink blush at the tip. I briefly wondered if I could coax that out of the glass on purpose, and then the next day scratched my head trying to remember what base glass I used. I got a rosy pink! Yesterday I just made a couple of pressed beads out of it -- one came out the rosy pink, but the other went mostly caramel, probably because I had some bubbles I heated out of it and worked it longer. I had also made some pressed beads out of the ghee unique, and this was almost indistinguishable except for a pink blush around the holes.
Anyway, I pulled another rod out of my main stash to try. I'm hoping this is from the batch I got two pounds of after whatever small amount I bought initially to try it out. Anyone else getting this?
Sorry I'm so photo impaired. I might try later this week.
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2010-08-22, 11:15am
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Where can I purchase Yellow Ice????, Been looking and can't locate. Any one have a Link, it would be greatly appreciated.
Val
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2010-08-22, 11:44am
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2010-08-22, 11:48am
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2010-08-22, 12:06pm
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Thanks a mil, just placed my order.
Much appreciated.
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2010-08-22, 12:09pm
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I've never seen the Yellow Ice go pink. I've seen Ghee go pink. And carnelian.
I think Yellow Ice should have been named Vanilla Ice. It's not yellow.
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2010-08-22, 12:33pm
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It's definitely not yellow, I agree. I'm out of propane, so I can't even test another rod!
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2010-08-22, 3:46pm
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When I first got mine, it was quite transparent in the rod, and very thin stuff, like 3mm max.. The stuff we have in is a nicer size, but if it's yellow, it's the palest yellow I've ever seen.. Striking can bring it a little brighter, but not much. It's a nicer "white", when you want something a little more yellow toned.
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2010-08-23, 12:01pm
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By any chance do you think you might have used opal yellow by mistake? When you said pink, that's the first thing that came to my mind thinking of a yellowish rod.
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2010-08-23, 5:46pm
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Definitely not opal yellow, but it's possible I mixed something else in (like maybe carnelian) that looked the same in rod form. I got a "shorts" box from Mike Frantz a year or two ago, and worked what I could into my stash.
Still can't get the propane swapped out to try a known rod. I'm hoping I'm just too wimpy to disconnect the fittings (I know they're threaded backwards) and that they haven't somehow permanently sealed.
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2010-08-23, 6:07pm
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I've gone through at least 3 pounds of yellow ice and never seen pink. What did you do?!
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2010-08-23, 9:01pm
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Just worked it normally. It must be a wayward rod of something else that looks exactly like the yellow ice. I hadn't used any in a long time, but never got pink before either.
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2010-08-24, 7:42am
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I have a batch of carnelian that looks exactly like yellow ice.
The carnelian batch are translucent whiteish rods that strike pink to carnelian shade.
My yellow ice looks like ivory to yellow after heated, but still translucent whitish rod before....
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2010-08-24, 9:45am
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I'd put my money on Carnelian. It looks exactly like pink lemonade after I set down the rod. My yellow ice is rather bland.
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2010-09-14, 12:55pm
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I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
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