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2006-04-08, 10:42am
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Irish Eyes A Smiling
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First Success With Boro
Just wanted to say thanks to Brent & Eric & everyone else...your Q&A points have really been helpful. I'm attaching an image - it's waiting for your constructive comments! Again - thanks to all - this Room is FABULOUS!!
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2006-04-08, 10:52am
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Nah, not really...;)
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Wow, awesome colors!!! Way to go.
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2006-04-08, 10:52am
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Very Nice! Is that DAP or GA Triple Passion in those beads on the left. Regardless, you were able to get great colors on your first try. I am curious, did you get the colors after flamestriking or did you have to anneal?
Eric
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2006-04-08, 11:02am
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Satake Woman!
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Super! That green/blue on the right is very nice.
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2006-04-08, 11:06am
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Serenity Now!
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Beautiful! I'm curious about Eric's questions as well 
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2006-04-08, 11:21am
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Yup.
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Beautiful colors, Lynn!!!! Way to go!!! You said you were going to do it and then you did. Perfect! Do tell more about the process, please!
(I'm so ashamed I haven't been here playing in this room more. I'm a silly girl.)
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2006-04-08, 11:28am
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borobucaneer
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They look great!!
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2006-04-08, 11:31am
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The Venerable Bead
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way to go girl! excellent job. Is that my Coral Passion and Amber Mist frit?
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"I believe in pink, I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
— Audrey Hepburn
flaming away on a betta, natural gas, and 2 M-20's
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2006-04-08, 12:14pm
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Irish Eyes A Smiling
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The pink/coral beads on the left of the screen are a base of DAP, a little yellow and Coral Passion frit from Paula. Added the boro to a clear rod and pulled the cane...made a base bead of clear and the cane added to that and melted slightly....then spot heated to pick up Coral Passion frit - heated to seat and start to melt - encased and then heated the snot out of it until the haze left - cooled for about 60 seconds under the bench until the glow was gone and then flame strike (got light color) then into annealer at 850 garage temp - anneal at 1150 x4hrs then cool down.
The blue was Glacier Blue and Phatol Green with Purposeful Turtoise frit from Paula's website - made the same way as the pinks.
Now I need to play with actually covering all the base pyrex so I don't have that ring effect from the side.
Forgot - I used 2 layers in each coating - base, boro cane & encasement.
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2006-04-08, 12:16pm
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Irish Eyes A Smiling
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Forgot the most important part - THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT!!!! It's truly appreciated.
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2006-04-08, 5:00pm
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Irish Eyes A Smiling
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Not really my first try - I've had LOTS of mud!!! This was the first success...but, OH, so far to go.
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Very Nice! Is that DAP or GA Triple Passion in those beads on the left. Regardless, you were able to get great colors on your first try. I am curious, did you get the colors after flamestriking or did you have to anneal?
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2006-04-10, 5:52pm
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Old enough to know better
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Lynn - the colors are beautiful. Looks like you're doing just fine! You might want to consider garaging above the strain point - say at 975 or so.
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2006-04-10, 7:17pm
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Irish Eyes A Smiling
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What will that do for the boro???? I thought good "seed seating" was about 850.
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Lynn - the colors are beautiful. Looks like you're doing just fine! You might want to consider garaging above the strain point - say at 975 or so.
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2006-04-10, 7:33pm
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borobucaneer
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Most Boro starts striking at 950 up to 1250. Strain point is about 950
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2006-04-10, 8:01pm
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Old enough to know better
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Your colors won't do anything below the strain point of 950 since this is where the molecules are no longer able to move around. Your colors are striking nicely because you are annealing at a high enough temp. I like to garage around 975 or so unless I'm working with colors that I want to strike on the higher end of the scale - 1250 as Baylie points out (I admit I chicken out at 1200.) I think 850 is the strain point for 104 COE glass.
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2006-04-11, 6:32am
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Irish Eyes A Smiling
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Back to programming the digital controller!
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