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2007-03-30, 5:51am
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Striking Transparent Orange
Does anyone know if they still make the old stuff? The rod was completely transparent and almost a clear color with no stripe of color in the middle. It was moretti and I miss it! I don't like the stuff I keep getting, it isn't tansparent to begin with really and it is definitely not transparent on a bead. They still make the yellow and the red the old way. Does anyone know if this stuff is still around somewhere and that I can buy? I loved the brilliant absolutely transparent color. It was gorgeous. I hate the new stuff.
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2007-03-30, 6:55am
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I haven't seen anything like the good, old batches in years. I still have 3 precious rods that I traded for about 7 years ago, and I use them VERY miserly. It was such a perfect, pure orange! Everything since then seems to be too much on the red side, or streaky semi-opaque. I DO like arancio perfecta for the color, but it wants to go opaque too readily.
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2007-03-30, 9:54am
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I've got some Lauscha Tangerine... I'll have to melt it up and see what it looks like..Paula
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2007-03-30, 10:53pm
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I have never been able to get any of the striking "transparents" to stay transparent - they always end up mostly opaque for me. I find it very disappointing that I can't get a 104coe transparent in red, orange, or yellow that stays transparent.
I also wish the aforementioned colors were not as reactive too. Can't combine them with Rubino at all.
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2007-03-30, 11:01pm
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Aimee,
You might want to try the Lauscha red for a good transparent red. You have to heat the snot out of it, until it actually goes clear, but when it cools you have a gorgeous transparent red. Umm, what I cant remember is if it will turn red without being restruck, or if you need to cool it and strike it in the flame. I'll check on that if you are interested.
Carol
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2007-03-31, 9:48am
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Thanks Carol. I'm a little leery of Lauscha however, I had major cracking issues with some of the colors. I'll have to check and see if the transparent red was one of them.
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2007-04-01, 12:18am
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Originally Posted by PolychromeBeads
Thanks Carol. I'm a little leery of Lauscha however, I had major cracking issues with some of the colors. I'll have to check and see if the transparent red was one of them.
Aimee
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You will have some serious cracking, Aimee, if you try to encase the Lauscha red with Effetre clear. If you use it with Lauscha clear instead it will be just fine. And it's a gorgeus shade of red!
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2007-04-01, 5:18am
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Not to hijack, but if we want to use any Lauscha colour, it sounds like we should encase in the same brand's clear. It is ok to encase Moretti in general in Lauscha clear? Is this a "safer" way to be? Just a question..
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2007-04-01, 7:08am
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Remember to do the stringer test before you make a whole set of beads.
Carole Anne from Lauscha has a post on the general Lauscha Questions thread about annealing at slightly higher temperatures. And it's got to go right into the kiln. We have just unpacked the tangerine and it's TDF...Paula
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2008-08-24, 8:43pm
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I have Effetre Transparent orange and I can't seem to get it to come out orange. I am brand new to lampworking any tips. The color keeps coming out red.
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2008-08-24, 10:16pm
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I've noticed that the rods I have (which do start out clear-yellow) strike a reddish orange, but they look pretty orange when put next to a transparant red (which also start out clear-yellow). It is transparant. The thinner I make the bead, the more orange it looks. I usually do a long thin bead with it these days. I got it last year from Frantz. Or maybe it was Arrow Springs. Argh, I'm not sure! LOL
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2008-08-25, 6:19am
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I have a rod of transparent red and it only has a slight difference if I didnt make to two colors completely different sizes I would not have know which was which.
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2008-08-25, 8:14am
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Paula is that lauscha orange one of the colors of the month??? I like that orange but dont remember what it was called. I is much more orange than moretti...
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2008-08-25, 8:19am
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answered my own question...that is it! gorgeous color!
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2008-08-25, 8:35am
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That was Orange Mango I think. And very close to Lasucha Transparent Orange. At least that's what everyone said that got it!
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2008-08-25, 5:12pm
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I had one or two old (bought 15 years ago??) rods of the Moretti transparent orange, and I agree, it hasn't been the same in years. I think I am hoarding two or three inches of it now! Someone recently gifted me with a stick of the CIM Clockwork Orange, though, and it is REALLY bright stuff! It looked great over white, and with Zeus scrolled all over it (the Zeus goes a shocking electric purple over the orange, very cool combo courtesy of Renee Wiggins at Jet Age...) So I bought a couple bundles of that at the Frantz bash this last weekend. Has anyone else here tried the Clockwork?
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2008-08-25, 6:57pm
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I tried Dali and Tibet this weekend on Lauscha Transparent Orange and got great color!
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2008-08-26, 12:51pm
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Really?! Let's see! (Oh, I know, you are on a plane and not at the camera....)
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2008-08-27, 1:54pm
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I really like the CIM Clockwork orange and Sangre red. They are bright without the sometimes problematic striking issues.
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