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Old 2012-05-01, 5:44pm
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I've encased copper, silver, brass, and stainless steel. Keep the brass out of the flame - it melts. Copper will turn a lovely red. Steel stays the same. Brass will produce massive amounts of bubbles with prolonged heating. You can choose to use the bubbles as a design element. I use soft glass but I don't see why these wouldn't work in boro.

Put a dot of glass on your piece where you want to place your inclusion. Get the dot soupy hot and shove the metal piece on there. Encase below the flame. Once you have the metal encased you are pretty much home free!

These are brass:




The red and blue turtles have copper inclusions as well as brass:


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