What type of murrine is it?

[categ50]

Happy Easter all!
I have been seeing some interesting murrine in posts in the past month or so. What type is it? Or is it hand made? Trey uses them, and the new post of Tie Dye beads used them. Care to share?
Cate

[dogmaw]

Those are hand made. You can do it too! Take a rod of glass, and stripe the outside with stringer. Melt them in, and pull it into the diameter you want your murrine to be. Clip them. To use them, don't cap them with clear, just put them on and melt in. The stringer lines you did will pull toward the center of the bead as it heats.

[Toni Lutman]

Hi Cate,

The ones I used in my Tie Dye inspired beads are of Raku (R-108 ) striped with intense black stringer. You can pull it straight and nip off chips like Jo suggests, but I'm lazy and I just heat the end of the striped cane, touch it to the warm bead, then I use nippers to cut it off. Then I heat it and use a tungsten pick and poke in the middle, which draws the black stripes in to the center.

[dogmaw]

Toni, I'm not coordinated enough to do it that way. :)

[sarah_hornik]

Hi Cate,
I just heat the end of the striped cane, touch it to the warm bead, then I use nippers to cut it off.

Do you have 3 hands?
:-k

[Anastasia]

Mouth, Sarah;-).....hehehe...at least this is how I do it...lol;-)....

[Toni Lutman]

heh. No, not three hands, and I'm certainly not coordinated enough to use my mouth. I'd probably burn my bangs, and I'm kinda fond of them. :p

I use a striped cane no longer than about 10", and after I've touched it to the bead and it's cooled enough so it won't flop around, I set the end of it on my bench, and then nip it.

[JenP]

I was so glad to see this post - I've been wondering about these too! Can't wait to try it tommorrow!
Thanks!

[suzanne]

Mouth, Sarah;-).....hehehe...at least this is how I do it...lol;-)....


lol... great minds think alike (don't try this with a just used stringer though... the wrong end is pretty hot and sticks really fast to skin...)

[Anastasia]

lol... great minds think alike (don't try this with a just used stringer though... the wrong end is pretty hot and sticks really fast to skin...)

Whom do ya tell that? Bwahahaha....

[Ro]

you can also use cane, wait till it cools a bit and just rock it back and forth a bit and snap cane off from the bead, saves the extra hand problem without nippers.
ro

[Toni Lutman]

You can, but for what I'm doing, this breaks it too close to the bead, and I don't get the look I want.

[Peach Blossom Beads]

Toni:
Are you making a starburst murrini (making indents on the rod and striping the intense black in the indents) or are you just striping a rod and melting it in? SOme of those raku rods are really thin.

Thanks!!!

[Toni Lutman]

Toni:
Are you making a starburst murrini (making indents on the rod and striping the intense black in the indents) or are you just striping a rod and melting it in? SOme of those raku rods are really thin.

Thanks!!!

I use a lot of it, and I'm lazy, so I make as much as I can in one pull. I usually use a rod (or more, depending on the thickness of it) and melt a big gather and kinda round it out to about a 1' long cylinder about the thickness of my thumb or maybe a little thicker. Then I stripe on the intense black stringer. I do have optic molds that I sometimes use so I get more even spacing, but I often just add stripes until I run out of room. :wink: Then I heat and pull. Depending on the thickness I'm going for, I often pull it as far as I can reach, so I get a good amount out of it.

[categ50]

Thanks everyone. I've made some stringers like that before, but didn't think to poke it so the lines move to the center. Huh.
Oh, and Toni, great beads. They are really colorful. Love them!
Cate

[Heather/Ericaceae]

Hi Cate,

The ones I used in my Tie Dye inspired beads are of Raku (R-108) striped with intense black stringer. You can pull it straight and nip off chips like Jo suggests, but I'm lazy and I just heat the end of the striped cane, touch it to the warm bead, then I use nippers to cut it off. Then I heat it and use a tungsten pick and poke in the middle, which draws the black stripes in to the center.

This is exactly what I do, too. I melt the tip of a 1-2mm striped stringer 'til it just barely starts to ball up, then squish it onto the bead, then pull it out just a little to make a thinner section, then blow on it and let it set up so it won't flop over. When it's hard, I let it go and use the little nippers to nip it off tidily. Then melt and poke the middle - perfect results almost every time! I couldn't imagine fiddling with tweezers and murrine chips - I'm terrible at that!