I use my marver to gently shape in the beginning of creation; I rarely use it to completely shape, though - just to touch up sides, flatten before encasing, etc.
I definitely use it EVERY TIME I TORCH, and would be lost without it while doing my layer-after-layer of encased Ocean beads. It definitely helps me keep control.
Further, I use my hand-held a lot - and bring it up to my work and pull the bead out of the flame just a bit and marver it right there at the back of the flame. Maybe it's because I'm on the Hot Head and don't trust the heating sufficiently to move it away from the heat long enough to marver too much on my work bench for fear of over cooling it!
So.....I use MOSTLY like this:
and this:
And sometimes like this:
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