Thank you Otter for your post, & I want to say that your way is the way I was taught, and the way that I work as well. Your illustration puts my cave woman drawings to shame tho. I never use a marble mold when making a maria. But of course what ever works for each individual in his or her way of doing things. I also never use a paddle on the maria to flatten it, I have experimented with trying that a few times and it always got me an off center design. With the heat base in the correct part of the spere, as shown quite accurately in your illustration, the maria will flatten and be thin. I cool my gather by counting the rotations as I spin it, a habbit I was not even aware of, untill I realized I was doing it one day. Then I heat the inner surface the same way, counting usually to 20 or so. I work with the same size rod, and my pendants are all about the same in size.
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