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2010-03-04, 8:14am
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Hmmmm.....
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Join Date: Jul 23, 2009
Location: Castle Dale
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Cranberry Pink Cracking?
I got some Dk Cranberry Pink and it is lovely! It totally reminds me of Rubino without the headache of striking or accidently turning it ugly colors.
I made two tests beads with it to see how it looked. First I made a watermelon slice, turned out not to shabby, I did a layer of pastel white underneath and a medium encasing of cranberry.
Second bead I also did a white core, but the casing of cranberry was even thinner than my first bead.
They came out of the kiln just fine and looked great, I was so excited for this new pretty color. Then a few days later I noticed they had cracks! I checked the other beads I did that day, nope, just the cranberry pinks! 
Whats the deal here? Am I doomed to just have to stare at this glass and not use it? I didn't really want it to make solid beads from, it cost to much for one, and I wanted a pretty trans. pink to go over white.
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2010-03-04, 8:22am
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Maybe switch up your white? Try a different color company
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2010-03-04, 10:53am
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I've been using it as dots and as a base under dichro with no problem. I haven't tried encasing it over white. I will try that and let you know what happens.
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2010-03-04, 2:47pm
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Who makes the dark cranberry?
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2010-03-04, 2:55pm
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2010-03-04, 6:09pm
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as in the state
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I was thinking it would be CiM. Do they have the dark cranberry again? It was out of stock for the longest time when I went to order.
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2010-03-04, 8:18pm
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I thought that it was all gone.
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2010-03-04, 9:36pm
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Lampworkaholic!
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I haven't had problems with Cim Cranberry, although it can scorch like Rubino.
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2010-03-04, 9:37pm
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Try it over clear or Moretti Rose Quartz Transparent. I've not had any crackage using it that way.
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2010-04-02, 7:19am
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It concerned me after seeing this thread so I did a few experments. I only bought one rod of cim cranberry because I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. Like Erose, I did not have any problems with it. In this picture I used kulgar clear on the one with silver leaf, as you can see it loves silver."Yay." I encased useing Moretti transparents on the rainbow one and Moretti clear on the other. Both have 104 white enamel powders on them and all three beads have set for over a week with no cracking. So far so good.
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2011-04-19, 11:08am
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My tax man already yelled at me for buying so much glass but I might have to try using CIM white and CIM clear to make some of the watermelon beads that look so much better with this cranberry color than with rubino IMO.
I have some really pretty cracked up CIM cranberry watermelon beads with flowers on them.
The ones I made with rubino are in my etsy shop right now. At least I don't have to worry about them cracking! I took all my CIM beads out of my shop for fear of the dreaded cracking.
Oh well.
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