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I'm hoping others will join in and show what they've been making lately. Everyone is welcome! I'll start us off.

This is a set with a white base, Molten Aura's Gold Ruby, rolled in some silver foil, and encased:

Oooo! Lovely!

I was just trying to figure out today the best way to make my new to me Hellcat up so can switch between oxycon and tanked, so hopefully will be able to contribute soon. (I decided to take it to the welding shop and get new hoses and information and help with connections)

Those are lovely! Great color

Eileen - Good luck with your set up! I only have oxy cons, so I'm not much help. Jealous that you have tanked too!

Thank you, Mina! This is a really great new color, so easy to use!

Susan, I didn''t know you could use foil with boro. Those look like fossil eggs, if they were pink LOL Very cool

Thank you! I love using silver foil/leaf with boro

Those are lovely, Susan! The soft pink and old gold color of the silver go so well together! Have you tried the MA Amethyst? It's nice but not quite what I was expecting. Didn't get any of the gold pink.
This is the Amethyst.
https://i.imgur.com/kO47Boc.jpg

Just some random beachy colors rolled in exotic powder.
https://i.imgur.com/hrGt81x.jpg

And a Luna moth wing. Oink. lol
https://i.imgur.com/tDhQkvA.jpg

My DH got rid of the welder that he used the oxygen with, and was going to give away his tank until I heard about it ;) I haven't really used it yet, but I want to try some marbles soon.

Oh wow, Rebecca!!! When I used the gold amethyst it was much lighter than that. Yours is gorgeous!!! I'll have to try again. Love love love the color combos! Thank you for sharing!

Eileeen, how lucky you are! My dream is liquid oxy, but I don't see that ever happening lol

Thanks Susan! I thought it was a bit light by itself too, that's over Parramore Siberia. Same principal as soft glass, layering a purple/violet over periwinkle. I was kinda surprised it worked. :lol:

ah that makes sense! I'm not very creative about layering like that. Thank you for the tip!

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I guess I posted in the wrong thread.

Here is the elephant:
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3908c862ba.jpg

A couple more:

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...eccec2eb85.jpg
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c00300df98.jpg

Love those, Dave! How did you figure out how to do those? Very cool.

Oh, just a lot of time, trial and error, accumulated knowege.

love it. We'd love to see what you come up with next!

Very cool, Dave! The elephant in the bottle is so cute!

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Here's a fresh set from yesterday, using a white base, a northstar experimental called Funky Citrus, Purple Luster #25 frit, encased with Simax:

Nice! I like the mold too.

thank you!

So pretty, Susan! I wish some of the experimentals would make it to full production. That would be one of them. But I'm still mourning the loss of some of them from 10 years ago. lol

These are Magpie's Crystal Blue Persuasion frit over different bases. Sea slyme for sure, maybe regular (if there is such a thing) Slyme, and I don't know what else....peacock chameleon maybe.
https://i.imgur.com/BXVJfUr.jpg

I love that blend (all of her blends, really!), and those beads are gorgeous!!!

Thanks! Made some more Luna Moth wings today. The top one is a version of Slyme that I got a long time ago from TAG. I wish I had a bunch more, the newer versions just scuzz something awful for me. The other 2 are GA green shades.
https://i.imgur.com/3IMkZRA.jpg

Love these!

Susan, those are beatiful pairs! Love that delicious pink.
Rebecca, love the texture of those wings. The blue beads are gorgeous

Edit: I didn't mean to leave out Dave's tiny elephant and other critters. Really shows the fun you can have with sculpting. Great stuff

Rebecca ... wow ... love he Luna Moth Wings (I've been attempting them in soft and am still horribly unhappy with my results).

And you made Crystal Blue sing beautiful songs. Love the blue bead set.

Here's a more recent set from me.

Playing with Hot Flash Frit (Angela Kane) secret blend (she never released it) called Magpie Magic!!

Thanks, Kristin! Pull out that boro and join us!!

Love those, Laura! That is so pretty, even though you are totally teasing us. Maybe we can convince her to release that one :)

Susan, i would love it. I whacked one of my oxycons out of commission. I still need to figure out how to take it apart and take a pic for the repair guy, it might be something I can do myself. So I'm down to one, not sure it is enough for boro, although Rachel Oxton uses the same setup as I currently have and does magic, of course. So I might not have an excuse after all.
I think its the sort of thing where you don't know where to start so you just start melting? LOL Maybe this weekend.

Laura, I swear, magpies and glitter, just destiny! Lovely shinies.

All the beads look awesome. I can never seem to get the bead release to stay intact while working boro.

Sorry to hear about your oxy con, Kristin. My offer is always there, if you need to zip over and work here.

Thank you, Dave. Have you tried Fusion? I'd be happy to send you a little to try if you'd like.

Thanks Kristin and Laura. Yes, Kristin, come to the dark side...:lol: Good luck with the oxycon! Hope you can fix it.

Pretty beads, Laura! How cool to use a frit named after your biz. I need to get out more and check on some of her frit.

KA, I agree with Susan. Fusion/FPI is awesome. Only super heat where your footprint will go, otherwise the part that was heated and then cooled will sometimes crack when you marver or use a roller.

I have exactly this problem also! I have many beads that I cannot get off the mandrel either.

thank you so much, Susan :love:

I just finished 10 hours of torching last night and still not caught up on my customs. Can we say 'overcommitted' ? LOL Maybe next week......Post some more pretties!

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Thanks but I bought this a few years ago and everyone raved about it. Specifically designed for boro so I came to the conclusion I am more of a pendant type guy.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...628c2e49e6.jpg

I've tried (since starting in 2008):

Dirty Louies
BOM (Bucket of Mud ... no longer produced)
Super Blue Sludge (no longer produced)
ABR release
FosterFire Smooth and Tuff
Tuffy's (which everyone was raving about)
Super Blue Ultra (replaced the previous version ... one ingredient became unavailable)
And final Fusion that Susan gifted me.

The original Super Blue was the best for me for Boro. Ultra is designed to release easy once cool and I end up with anything silver glass that you need to cool and strike or cool and reduce ... the darn release lets loose.

Fusion has been the best ... though still not perfect for beads.

Playing with testing color recipes from others. First up a Sandy Seeman recipe.

I call it Desert Camo

Those are cool Laura!

I am fairly ignorant about beads. Do you always use a separate mandrel for each bead or can you make more than one bead on a single mandrel?

You could make multiple to a mandrel. Susan at Jackson River does that with her disk beads ... load the mandrel up.

Since I mostly work on 1/16" and have to be careful to keep the mandrel out of the flame to keep from burning through. I happily make one bead to a mandrel.

I nearly always make many beads (5-9 or so) in a single mandrel. These are relatively simple, speedy beads. Just be careful not to hit them with flame after they are done, as they have begun to cool and might crack. I very seldom have cracking problems, although I use extra caution with boro containing a lot of metal (Amazon Night, Aurora, etc).
Making multiples like this allows me to make a small set of similar sizes easily and quickly.

Really nice, Laura! Kinda neutral but in NO way boring.

The only beads I make more than one to a mandrel (mostly) are disc beads, then it's 5 tops. I don't know what it is but I have cracking problems if I try to push it.

Having fun with DAP.

Facebook just reminded me of DFO2014 here in Eugene. Scored half a table for $35 full booths went for $1300. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c6c4c0da52.jpg

Playing with Momka Marley (or Marley II?)
Any other ideas for tricolor rods?
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...84377397fc.jpg

Dave, you could wigwag them for long pendants or earrings. I wigwag them for pen shafts and leaves. 3 and 5 from the top are Momka multi rods but I don't know which ones.
https://i.imgur.com/1NlSvGc.jpg

Thanks for sharing with all of us!!

Thanks! Very nice work.

Beautiful work, everyone!

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Looking for other applications for Momka’s tricolor rods I did this millefiori six pack... back to the drawing board I guess. Maybe I will try and back a marble with it.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7c14246d23.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4c1b4a8007.jpg

I like those, Dave. They're very autumn-y.

Thanks. :-k
It was so dark at first, I was kind of disappointed but they are growing on me.