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That is the product that I carry. It is called Annealing Bubbles. The Japanese use this extensively, to the point that many Japanese artists do not use an electric kiln. Then again, their glass has a much lower annealing temperature, and holds the heat for a lot longer than the US or Italian glass.
HTH
Malcolm
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Sounds like it's just being cooled and not annealed. I'm not going to get into this at length but it's not annealing unless a kiln is used.
Sure the Japanese can get away with it because most of the Japanese glasses have a higher level of lead in the glass - and it will hold the temps longer.
When I owned the Czech glass biz - we did extensive research on this.
But hey! It's your beads! It's your customers... hope you have a return policy!
I'd suggest saving up your money and buying a kiln if you want to build a business and have repeat customers. Cooling beads and not annealing gives good beadmakers a bad name.
(ever clean out Japanese beads and .... *plink* breaks in half?)