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Old 2005-10-26, 10:42am
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Originally Posted by doesdoes
Can anyone give me some encasing tips, please I have been trying to get it right time and time again. The bead keeps bleeding. I would be so grateful

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Jenny
If by bleeding you mean your design is getting smeared then yes, you have your base bead too hot. If your design is bleeding up in between the encasing then you are missing spots.

I've found the best way for me to encase is to heat up a gather of clear and wrap it around the bead. Let that cool a bit and then heat up another gather and wind it around so that it's touching the first wrap. This helps me to avoid the bubbles between the wraps that I get when I try to wind continuously. Also, I will sometimes add a small wrap on either end and then heat and tuck that with my brass wand so that the encasing goes closer to the mandrel.

Hope that helps some .
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