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Old 2006-12-02, 12:59am
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Thank you Ashmo, I already thought it was something like that but I could'nt quite figure it out

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Old 2006-12-02, 6:19am
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Here's one of my latest. A bit on the "chunky" side. I'm hoping to work on some slimmer ones.

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Old 2006-12-02, 8:17am
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i like the chunky one! NICE pen too
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Old 2006-12-02, 11:04am
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My first showing! I think these turned out cool even though I thought they would be blue instead of olive!

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You guys are SO talented! These are something I was fooling around with yesterday for funky earrings. Unobtanium on the left (I love this stuff!) and Triple Passion on the right (I love this stuff too!).
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Old 2006-12-03, 3:18pm
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Old 2006-12-03, 3:29pm
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You guys are SO talented! These are something I was fooling around with yesterday for funky earrings. Unobtanium on the left (I love this stuff!) and Triple Passion on the right (I love this stuff too!).
Did you make your spirals on a mandrell? I made them that way, but I couldn't get all of release off so they didn't look nice and clean like yours. Yours are very pretty. (I am using sludge plus for my bead release.)
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Thanks! Eric, I did make them on mandrels. I cut any of the graphite based Sludges with a 'white' release (anything without graphite) about 1/2 & 1/2 more or less and get the mandrel redhot. It holds nice and seems to clean up great with most colors in boro. The ones that I've tried anyway, not too many. Wish it would work the same for soft glass but no.
I've tried many different things to cut with. Fireworks, Bucket O' Flake, um I mean Mud (too humid here for it to work), Fosterfire, and plain kilnwash for glass mixed up to be a yogurty consistency, whatever seems to be good as long as some graphite is in there. Non-graphite releases don't work for me and let go every. freaking. time.
Oh, and I hand clean them too. Maybe that makes a difference? With one of the diamond bits in a handle thingies. I dunno, that's my story and I'm stickin to it.
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Thanks! Eric, I did make them on mandrels. I cut any of the graphite based Sludges with a 'white' release (anything without graphite) about 1/2 & 1/2 more or less and get the mandrel redhot. It holds nice and seems to clean up great with most colors in boro. The ones that I've tried anyway, not too many. Wish it would work the same for soft glass but no.
I've tried many different things to cut with. Fireworks, Bucket O' Flake, um I mean Mud (too humid here for it to work), Fosterfire, and plain kilnwash for glass mixed up to be a yogurty consistency, whatever seems to be good as long as some graphite is in there. Non-graphite releases don't work for me and let go every. freaking. time.
Oh, and I hand clean them too. Maybe that makes a difference? With one of the diamond bits in a handle thingies. I dunno, that's my story and I'm stickin to it.
Thanks for the info. I will have to try that. Oh, and since I just had the spirals without the bead on the end my girls ended up wrapping them around hanks of their hair which looked kind of cool. I was just afraid that they would slip out if they got to active. I think it is a cool idea, and I have seen them done in silver (which is where I got the idea), but I am not sure how to keep them secure in the hair. I do really like the way yours look as earrings though.
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My first boro beads....Triple Passion



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Thanks for the info. I will have to try that. Oh, and since I just had the spirals without the bead on the end my girls ended up wrapping them around hanks of their hair which looked kind of cool. I was just afraid that they would slip out if they got to active. I think it is a cool idea, and I have seen them done in silver (which is where I got the idea), but I am not sure how to keep them secure in the hair. I do really like the way yours look as earrings though.
I had a person over Saturday to torch and she was talking about the just spirals saying how someone she sells to wanted some. So I'm thinking huh? how they gonna stay??? This person she sells to makes...what are those name tag/ID hangers called? Anyway, those things. She wanted them for that but I couldn't wrap my mind around it. *groan*

Oh and Whispering Beads? Those are your first?!? Dayum! Nice, nice, nice!
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