Offer for Beads of Courage
 

We'd like to offer help too.
We want to offer a $15 gift certificate for 10 beads sent.

Anyone that mails me 10 glow beads - I will give the gift certificate.
My only requirement is that beads are larger than 3/8" in diameter and a limit of 30 beads per person.

Once I have beads I will then box them all up and forward them on to BOC.

Let me know!

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This is a great thing for the kiddos and I'd like to offer my support to beadmakers.
Keep in mind $15 can buy you 3 - 5g bags of Glow Powder
and it only takes about a gram of glow to make 10 beads.

Love to everyone supporting this great cause - Happy Beading and Way to Glow!

What a generous offer!

That's a very generous offer. I just for a request for glow beads a couple of days ago and I've been working to fill it. Thank you for your great support!

Robert

I sent a bunch (71) earlier in the week, if they aren't there yet, they should be there on Monday :)

Tom

Can you please post the shipping address?

71 Beads! That's awesome!
Were they all glow glass?

Way to Glow Sundance!!!!!!
<3 BOC!!!!

Still need someone to make us that "radiation" milli cane to standardize some glow beads and make it part of the kids "language".....Mr. Simmons.....nudge nudge wink wink...........
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here's the Glow Beads I sent in......more to come.....

Clear base, 2 wraps with glowstix, then a clear wrap :)

boro, not 104 though

Tom, that is wonderful!:D

All Hail the Boro-evangelist!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOME TOM!!!!!!

Tom that's wonderful!!

Hey Robert let me know when his 71 beads arrive, take a pic so I can see -
And I will give Tom a $30 gift certificate for Sundance

I just placed an order for some Glow powder. I'm going to give this a try. :D

Right on Deb!!
Can't wait to see what you guys got in store!!

I know these kids will love these!!

I'd make gads of glow beads if I had glow powder!! I may just have to put that on my shopping list on Friday (payday ;0) ~ Sandy

Is there a time limited on this generous offer?

Which glow powder color has the brightest glow?

I personally think the aqua has the brightest glow, but the yellow-green is pretty close too.

Not sure how long we are going to offer, I guess we'll see how we do.
BTW we have 5g bags of glow on sale for 45% less than list price!

My glow beads are a white base bead, bright blue glow powder and encasement in aquamarine transparent. It gives a fantastic Cerenkov Radiation blue (the color seen in a real reactor) and glows for hours. Our kids here in Atlanta love them and I'm told that they're quite popular around the country where they ended up.

Robert

What is the easiest way to make glow beads? I have a little powder and a couple of short glow stix. I'm a boro newbie working on a Mega Minor and 8 LPM Oxycon. So the simplest bead formula would be appreciated.

Do I have to encase, or can I make a simple solid bead rolled in glow powder or a simple solid bead with a glow stringer? Is white the best base color? And what is the best base color if my glow stix are white?

Thanks ever so!

Liz

Hi Liz!

It sounds like you have a couple of options at your disposal.

With the glow powder you can do one of two things:

Make a bead, roll it in the powder, give a tap to shake the excess, give it a quick and gentle heat in the flame, then encase with a layer of clear or transparent.

Or make and pull a rod with the stuff. Make a lollypop with clear , heat one side, lay it in the glow powder, quick gentle heat to help it stick, then lay clear or transparent over top of the glow to encase it then pull it out into a rod and continue from there.


With the glow stix, give them a good wash to make sure they're clean of factory schmutz (i.e. refractory residue from the molds), preheat them in the kiln, punty up and pull them down into a thick stringer. You can then lay this down over your base color, and then encase with a transparent or clear.

I always encase because glow can cook out while you're shaping if you're not careful, encasing helps keep that from happening, at least in my experience.

Red's don't do so well over top of glow since it blocks the light that charges the stuff, but greens and blues work nicely.

The base of the glow powder and the glow stix is going to look white, so use something complimentary underneath.

Oh, and you might consider running your kiln a little hotter (1100 or so) with the boro glow; it likes heat.

Hope that helps!

Here's the colors so far minus LS-001 White aka/ LUMI
Chart made with love for ya'll by Tara Provini!

Those look great! :D

Joe- Check your PM.

Robert

Thanks Robert!!!!!

Didn't see that!!

:waving:

I'm on it and will let you know as soon as I hear from our receiving person. I'm at Bead and Button at the moment.

Robert

I made 5 beads with the aqua glow powder today. What an awesome product. These beads are so cool! I'm going to try another glow color tomorrow. :D

Just bought the boro glow stix so will start making my BOC beads as soon as it arrives. Nice promo Sundance!!! You have inspired me!!! \\:D/

Well, of the 5 beads I made yesterday, 2 cracked. I used moretti white as a base, rolled them in the glow powder, and encased with dark transparent aqua. Any suggestions?

I'd defer to Joe, but if I were to guess I'd say bump up the heat slightly in the kiln so the powder layer cools a little more slowly than it did.

Tom, they look like incompatibility cracks. If no one else has had this problem, I am wondering if I got a rod of BE mixed in with my moretti.

I usually put these beads in the kiln pretty hot and the continue to turn the mandrels while they cool to kiln temp slowly for about 30 seconds before I put them down. I very rarely get any cracking.

Robert

Superkitty......;)......If you think you got Bulls eye in the 104 mix.......that would maybe :confused: cause issues.......lol.....

I have not had cracking issues with the soft glasses, though with what I've learned from the Boro....I do now have my kiln set a bit higher.......just to be on the safe side

(in the beginning......I had no kiln......and I used to make these beads and cool them in a heated crockpot full of perlite....about 25% of my beads cracked and the rest survived..)...with that bit of info, I'm going to guess it was not the powder.....

Here's a how to stringer tutorial that I've had on youtube for awhile.........maybe this will help?


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LMK...

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Well, so far the others didn't crack. I'll try pulling a few stringers, putting it in the kiln hotter, and turning up the kiln a bit and see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestions!

I just wanted to say thank you to Sundance for the gift certificate :)

It's particularly surprising since I never sent them my address, so they actually tracked me down to get it to me.

Thank you!!

Is this great offer still available?

Yes it is!
Email me for details

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