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2008-10-06, 4:00pm
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Double Helix Striking Glass Tutorial
Hayley Tsang and Stephanie Bonniwell made a great Luna2 tutorial for the Flow Magazine, Fall 2008. Unfortunately only half of the tutorial was printed. Please follow the link below to see the complete tutorial!
http://www.doublehelixglassworks.com...H_Luna2_lr.pdf
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2008-10-06, 4:00pm
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Double Helix Striking Silver Glass
Luna 2
Text and Demonstration by Stephanie Bonniwell and Hayley Tsang
The Striking Sequence
Heat the glass until translucent, glass is almost droopy at this point
Cool until the glow is gone, amber tones bloom
Reheat at the tip of the flame until it glows orange
Observe the first strike as dark brown/dark purple tones bloom
Repeat cooling and heating to yield purples and blues
Repeat cooling and heating to yield lighter purples and blues
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2008-10-06, 4:00pm
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Stephanie Bonniwell and Hayley Tsang’s friendship began with their love for silver glass. Their very different backgrounds – Steph’s science and Hayley’s fine arts – provide complementary platforms as glass testers for Double Helix Glassworks. Stephanie currently resides in Quinby, VA, and works professionally as an oyster hatchery manager. Hayley is a full-time graphic designer in San Francisco, CA.
There are essentially two types of silver soft glass – striking and reducing. Reducing silver glass produces beautiful iridescence while striking silver glass yields most of the color spectrum. Striking colors may be new to soft glass lampworkers, so Double Helix asked Steph and Hayley to share their technique in this tutorial.
The Striking Sequence is a quick reference guide to help you recognize what you should be looking for in each striking step. The first step of heating the glass until translucent is the most critical. If you don’t get the dark brown/dark purple at the first strike, it’s a clear indication that you didn’t heat your glass enough. Also, most striking glass can be overworked and loses the vibrancy of colors if struck too many times.
Materials:
Double Helix Luna 2
Clear
Clear stringer
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Start by winding Clear onto the mandrel in a barrel shape with a footprint of about 1.25”/32mm.
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Wind Luna 2 on top of Clear, taking care to cover the Clear ends with Luna 2.
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Completely encase Clear with Luna 2.
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Heat enough to marver the glass into a smooth barrel shape.
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2008-10-06, 4:00pm
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Reheat and shape both ends. The glass will bloom as you are working and you should see brown tones, as well as of purples and blues.
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While rotating the mandrel, reheat the middle of the bead until translucent and you see this section begin to droop.
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Take it out of the flame and gently marver the middle as it is cooling. Allow the glass to cool until the glow is gone. Carefully place the bead under the table to verify.
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Re-introduce the bead at the top of the flame and slowly reheat until it starts to glow orange. Take it out of the flame and brown tones should bloom at this stage.
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Additional heating and cooling will yield more colors, from dark purples/blues to light purples/ blues. Do NOT heat till translucent again.
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Spot heat when the dark purple meets the light tones, twist with a clear stringer, then snap or burn off the stringer.
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Repeat spot heating and twisting a total of three times on each side of the central dark purple band.
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Reheat the entire bead. Place bead in a preheated kiln to anneal.
Important Note
Depending on how much you reheat the glass at each strike yields different colors. If overstruck, start all over by heating the glass translucent <Step 6> again.
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2008-10-06, 4:00pm
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Article sponsored by
We, at Double Helix Glassworks, have been creating innovative colors for soft glass artists since 2005. We are thrilled to work with such talented lampworkers as Steph and Hayley. It is through these partnerships that experiments transform into new colors and colors become art.
Double Helix Glassworks is currently offering three striking silver glasses – Luna 2, Khaos, and Terranova 2, and seven reducing silver glasses – Triton, Psyche, Nyx, Gaia, Elektra 2, Kronos 2, and Aion 2.
www.doublehelixglassworks.com
www.stephaniebonniwell.etsy.com
www.envisionsf.etsy.com
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2008-10-06, 4:00pm
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Stephanie and I would like to thank Jed and Julie for this amazing opportunity!
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2008-10-06, 4:01pm
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2008-10-06, 4:35pm
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Looks great! Time to pull out my one rod of the stuff, and see if I can make it sing like that. Thanks!
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2008-10-06, 4:42pm
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Yay! Awesome guys!
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2008-10-06, 4:48pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Double Helix Glassworks
Hayley Tsang and Stephanie Bonniwell made a great Luna2 tutorial for the Flow Magazine, Fall 2008. Unfortunately only half of the tutorial was printed. Please follow the link below to see the complete tutorial!
http://www.doublehelixglassworks.com...H_Luna2_lr.pdf
Jed and Julie at Double Helix Glassworks |
The link isn't working 
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2008-10-06, 4:54pm
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I put it on my site for now, until Jed and Julie fix the link to their site.
http://envisionsf.com/DH_Luna2_Tutorial.pdf
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2008-10-06, 5:31pm
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oops-
and YAY Stephanie too!!!
(sorry about that!) is she also on LE?
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2008-10-06, 5:32pm
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Thank you Jed and Julie, again! We are pleased to finally have the full version available to view. Both links worked for me so I hope we are good to go!
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2008-10-06, 5:33pm
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Hi, Nagi! Yep, I'm here! Thanks!
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2008-10-06, 5:42pm
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Hi!
Great job--ooh--and I like that Ripples bead in your Etsy store!
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2008-10-06, 6:20pm
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I thought there was something missing. Thanks for posting here. I think The Flow needs to print the entire thing in their next issue.
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2008-10-06, 8:19pm
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Thanks Steph and Hayley, this is terrific! 
Cheers
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2008-10-06, 9:02pm
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Wow. Thanks! L
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2008-10-06, 10:22pm
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Thank you, everyone!
Steph and I (and Jed and Julie too!) are happy that we can share this with you! I think that it may be a blessing in disguise that only half the tutorial was printed . . . coz now we can reach others who do not subscribe to the magazine and more people can benefit from this tutorial!
This is done using Double Helix's Luna 2 - but the same principles work for all of Jed and Julie's striking silver glass! Have fun playing with them!
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2008-10-07, 12:31am
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Hayley congrats! You did a great job!
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2008-10-07, 9:57am
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hey you two...FABULOUS!!
THANKS!!
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2008-10-07, 12:28pm
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Hi Steph 
Great job you guys. 
I want to be just like you when I grow up......
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2008-10-07, 4:40pm
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This is excellent. I think it should be moved to the tutorials section.
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2008-10-08, 9:18am
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Thanks, Carolyn. I will check with Jed to see if we should have it moved!
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2008-10-08, 2:52pm
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Congrats to Hayley and Steph - and thank you for sharing your wisdom!
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2008-10-10, 9:59am
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Ohhhhhhhhhh Hayley And Stephanie Thank you so much this will really help those of us who feel clueless when we try to get those beautiful colors to bloom!!
You Rock!!
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2008-10-10, 2:35pm
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Thank you from all of us! We sincerely appreciate your support and are glad this tutorial is being put to great use!
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2008-10-10, 2:50pm
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Thanks, Hayley and Steph, Jed and Julie. Super job.
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2008-10-10, 9:47pm
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Thank you everyone! Perhaps you wanna post some pix?! Steph and I are here to trouble shoot as well if you have questions!!
I am teaching a silver workshop this weekend . . . perhaps I will make all my students follow the tute and make a bead! 
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2008-10-12, 2:34am
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Thank you so much! I do not have a subscription to the Flow, and have been batteling with the few presious rods of Luna2 in my stash. I will play this week and post pics!
Diana
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