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2006-11-19, 6:29am
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Passion for Beads
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Join Date: Jul 02, 2006
Location: Europe, the Netherlands
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How to make golden dots?
I have tried to make golden dots, with the gold filigrano rod. But that gives me not the result i am looking for. 
Does anyone have sugestions how to make gorgious looking golden dots?
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2006-11-19, 7:38am
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Detail G-Mama!
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Join Date: Jun 10, 2005
Location: Longview, WA
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If you want the goldstone dots, you need to use goldstone in chunk form and pull stringer from that. If you want metallic gold dots, iris gold chunks pulled into stringer and then applied. Once they are applied you need to reduce them and that will bring the metal out and make them shiny! 
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2006-11-19, 8:42am
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Passion for Beads
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Dear Anne,
Thank you so much for your answere. I have iris gold, but diddent get the result i wanted. I now know i have to reduce them.
Thank you so much. I get started right away. 
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2006-11-19, 8:52am
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Yep, just crank up that propane a bit and then flash the bead or wave the bead to where you see the metal coming up to the surface! Have fun!
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2006-11-19, 8:30pm
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A Splash o' Glass
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Join Date: Aug 02, 2005
Location: Riverside, CA
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I also use Iris gold stringers to make raised gold dots. But I also found another neat reaction with it. The part of my stringer that I pull that has less Iris gold on it and more clear, towards the end, makes really nice miniture pearls out of your raised dots. Reduce slightly to get the metal to just rise to the surface. I think with more clear to Iris gold ratio, it creates the pearly effect. I don't have an exact recipe...I just came upon this by chance. I don't feel like going through the camera routine tonight, but I'll take a picture and post later. I really love this though. Try experimenting with it.
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2006-11-19, 10:16pm
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Renaissance Girl
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Join Date: Nov 12, 2006
Location: N.E. of Detroit Area
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Another gold look
I sometimes use a stringer I pulled from an amber or dark yellow glass, with the goldstone mixed well in it. A different look though.
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2006-11-20, 5:28am
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Detail G-Mama!
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You can encase chunk goldstone with different transparent colors, just make sure they are dark and moretti black will give you a very pretty purple and rubino gives you a gorgeous color as well and dark emerald or teal also! That tip is from Kristen Frantzen Orr.
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2006-11-20, 12:41pm
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Queen of small things
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Join Date: Oct 25, 2005
Location: North Georgia Mountains.. I hear banjo music!
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You can also use a gold glass paint. It has to be painted on then fired. It gives you a real gold look ( like the look on vintage goblet/glass rims).
The stuff really smell BAD when you fire it, but does leave you with GOLD- a true gold look.
The product is:
Mayco OV-1 Bright Gold
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