marble help.

[murf]

So just came in from the shop do to not having any rope strong enough to bare my weight for a proper hanging. I may have asked this before. I was making a marble from blowing a bubble and applying my design to the out side, condense down and tearing off the tube and then adding a lens. Sea reef style thing, anyhow I got my rod lens ripping hot and the disk as hot as I could before it went in to complete melt down. Attach the two together pushing the lens rod the dia of the disk. Well all good, burn off rod and melt down lens. Well as normal I have a distinct line that travels the entire circumference of the joining parts. What the hell! If I apply any more heat to the disk the puntie will push right through the design when applying the lens. So any suggestion? Sickens me that this was looking very sweet only to fail once more.
thanks
Murf
off to find some rope.

[meadowesky]

LOL Murf... no help here but you sure are funny... don't kill yourself.. you will get it

[menty666]

punty to the other side and heat the joins a section at a time?

Just a shot in the dark

[Cosmo]

When I'm doing something like that, what I do is take my disk that has my implosion or whatever design, and then use the color or clear that I want to attach to it, and start building a mass in the center of the back of the disk. Keep building it right in the center, then once you get enough on there, heat it up really hot and then marver it flat. That will push the color or clear out to the edge smoothly without leaving a line. From there you can continue building up the back of the marble.

[e. mort]

I have noticed that I have this problem more when I use silver colors. I think sometimes that a little silver ends up on front before you add the lens, but that is just a guess.