Category: Glass

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Misc beads…. none of them match….

Spent some time in my garage today making beads…. now what?

I s’pose in other news it might be itneresting to note that this means I switched over from hard glass (pyrex, COE-36) to soft glass (moretti & one or two of those other brands, COE-104) which means I needed to readjust where/how I set the oxypropane torch (in terms of psi AND in terms of what kind of flame I use when)… ummm….. I discovered that it’s not really easy for me to switch from one style to the other when I haven’t touched the soft glass in months and months and months…. i ended up with a bunch off soot-y streak-y beads
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BUT! the good news is that they DID get progressively better and more clear so I would say that I am starting to remember what I need to adjust for what 🙂 yay!

now to figure out what to do with these beads….

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the other pendants

I almost wish FTP wasn’t back in business… I don’t care for the yellow one and I have no idea how it turned yellow. I imagine it must be related to the kind of flame I was using (it was just past neutral and into the oxidizing range of flames) and I bet I was working too close to the heat and burnt the other colors out. Hmmm.

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Finally finished this piece, too…. I made the bead some time last year and started twirling the metal and left it…. for months and months…..

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Marbles!

Took a class a couple of weeks ago….

Spiral cat-eye marble

A vortex marble!

and…. two broken marbles…. here’s one of them anyway:

I’ll post the other broken one later tonight, I hope. I should be able to start making these at home on my own soon. I just borrowed a small kiln from my parents and can’t wait to get started!

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Another attempt at a swirled starburst pendant:

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small (fused) glass dish

made from 96 COE glass, glassline in turquoise & dark blue and my first attempt(s) at using a whatchamacallit wet saw (it has a circular blade that is like a diamond bit/diamond grinder but in a circular wire form). It’s just under 4″x4″ and was made in IL last month while visiting my ‘rents.