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Old 2009-01-15, 10:50am
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I am so frustrated trying to get consistent results. I have Kugler Iris gold rods and I can't seem to get a gold metallic out of it. I get more of a silver metallic. However, I was doing testers with a few of my different metallic glasses and I did a small spacer that turned out a beautiful shade of gold (just what I want) but can't seem to get the same effect again. I just pulled out a set of spacers that I thought looked gold and I thought I did the same thing as before but No they are more silver looking and they are defintely not all the same in their metallic color (so in other words not a matching set). HELP, please? Thanks so much!
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Old 2009-01-15, 10:58am
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I'm not sure what your method is, but works best for me is to turn down the oxy, rather than turning up the propane.
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Old 2009-01-15, 11:33am
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I think you can over reduce too - when I do this it turns muddy instead of gold. Haven't found a way to redo it with stringers without melting them in.
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Old 2009-01-15, 12:01pm
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I do what Shawnette does. Just turn down the oxy till you get about an inch of yellow flame and then just roll the bead in the flame for a few seconds. Like 4 seconds. Take it out and look at it. If you want it more metallic, do it again.
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Old 2009-01-15, 3:16pm
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Surely, Iris Gold is a peculiar critter, something I learned several years ago with this blown piece...





In one smooth move I managed to get struck, un-struck, and over-struck areas, as well as reduced and non-reduced surfaces... just about everything Iris gold can do in one piece. And in about five years do you think I can get it to go that way again? Go figure.
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Old 2009-01-17, 10:43am
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oooohh ... drooling over this piece, very nice!!!! aahhh..... lickable!! thanks for showing it
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