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Old 2011-02-22, 5:53am
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Mary Lockwood
 
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I haven't had any trouble with surface marring either.

The cgrollers are very high quality graphite and there is a difference. Maybe the marver you used before wasn't as high quality graphite?? Not sure what the problem is exactly. I've used the same cheapo marver since I got my starter kit and don't have a pitting problem. Well, some of the frits will pit, but they do that for me whether I've marvered them or not.

Maybe you were over-tooling. Is that a word? LOL You can't keep marvering and then reheating over and over again. You chill the surface and make it easier to boil the outer skin of the bead and cause pits. That would happen with a marver of any material though- not just graphite.

~~Mary
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