Beautiful, inexpensive, but surly stuff. They tend to pull their rods very thick and there's a lot of air trapped in them, especially their twistie rods. Pre-warming is essential, or all you'll get is a lot of bench frit. (That's not so bad, actually, because it does work well as frit, particularly in marbles.) Approach their dichroics with care; the last time I bought their dichroic stringers, all the sparkly flaked right off before I even got it near the flame. Their selection of mandrels and their range of tools is very good.
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