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How long are you annealing the beads for? Surely, after a week of making the beads and telling us that they are going in the kiln, you'd have some beads ready to photograph to show us.

CIM, which is made in China, has worked with professionals in the industry to make sure they have a good product. Not all of their glass plays nice even though it is 104 coe. Even Lauscha, also 104, doesn't always work with Moretti and Vetrofond -especially with silver glass.


Please don't jump on Sarah for asking a respectable question. If a new car suddenly showed up at the dealer, with no advertising, no write ups by those in the industry, would you want to buy it? Of course not. You'd wait for the reviews, give it a while to prove itself and, then, maybe you'd test drive it. You certainly wouldn't take the car salesman's advise.

Perhaps, you should have introduced yourself in the beginning so we'd know your background a bit better. India does make a lot of beads and most of them are pretty poor quality (I'm trying to be polite). For us to spend money on poor quality glass, regardless of the price, is a waste of our time and money. To take a risk that it might not be compatible, is certainly not worth the effort.