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Old 2010-03-12, 11:37pm
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Ahhhhh... TerraNova, the apple of my eye. It's my favorite striking glass alongside Green Dalai.

I got lucky to keep this one this translucent. Other attempts are more opaque, but I still get these wild colors. Put your gather on the mandrel, get it screaming hot. I mean dripping off the mandrel, barely able to control it hot. The footprint doesn't matter because I get it so hot it spreads to be about twice as wide as I started. I keep going until I see these ghostly lines show up and it looks like glass comes to the top from the inside, it's hard to explain but you'll know it when you see it. I cool it quickly by blowing on it, and at this point is a transparent light peridot green. I barely strike it in the tip of the flame, just enough so it gets faint streaks, then I encase it. Once again I get it screaming hot so eveything is clear, take it out and let it cool a long time until the glow is gone. I strike it again in the tip of the flame for just a few seconds. The sooner I get it in the kiln, the more transparent it is. There are hardly any colors on this bead going in, and this is what comes out. If I put it in with these colors, it comes out very opaque and a tad darker.



Also TN2.1 worked the same way, but struck more going in the kiln:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beadsbytraci/4104002727/

I've only gotten the wild blues & purples Jamie Lynn gets once, the stars were aligned that day or something. I've never been able to reproduce it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beadsbytraci/4103996955/

It's funny... Jamie Lynn gets what I want, and I get what she wants out of it
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