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2015-06-27, 3:22pm
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Christine
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Swirly Beads
Hi, I purchased some beads and the seller calls them Swirly beads. I asked her how she made them and she said she made a base bead and added frit and then used a stringer to create the swirls. I want to make some but I get stuck at the swirly part.
My stringer did not swirl the colors but melted in like the frit. What should I be doing, please? TIA!
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2015-06-27, 6:20pm
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Heat the spot you want to swirl, get it nice & gooey there. Pull the bead out, and use the cold stringer to move the hot glass. If it gets stuck, let it cool until you can break the stringer off, then melt the bead smooth again.
There are better explanations around
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2015-06-27, 7:33pm
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Eileen, thank you so much for all of your help! I appreciate it so much!
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2015-06-27, 8:48pm
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My brain wouldn't cooperate to make it clearer, hope it helped. I "was" making hand motions while I was telling you though
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2015-06-27, 8:54pm
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Maybe some of this thread will get you inspired. We were doing challenges to learn new skills, and this one seems to fit the bill!
http://lampworketc.com/forums/showth...+raked+twisted
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2015-06-27, 9:38pm
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Originally Posted by Eileen
My brain wouldn't cooperate to make it clearer, hope it helped. I "was" making hand motions while I was telling you though
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haha I love how you explain things Eileen.
I say that my beads always get deformed when I try it, so the trick is to spot heat as well, and keep the stringer out of the flame so it doesn't melt in. I suppose clear stringer would work, also a tool if you keep cooling the tip?
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2015-06-27, 9:39pm
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There is a technique involved with;
A) making the bead
B) letting the core of it cool enough to firm up but not get too cool to put up with going back into the flame so you can
C) reheat the outer surface enough to move when you rake it but not get it so hot that that the patterns you have melted into the surface distort from being too soupy and
D) letting the reheated surface 'skim over' enough to solidify so that it moves as 'skin' being pulled rather than just a parting of the upper surface.
Kind of like the difference between the skinned over surface on a pudding verses the all together too liquid surface of foam on a cup of very hot coffee.
Did any of that make sense?
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2015-06-27, 11:39pm
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It's all about the color.
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Love the Mardi Gras colors of those beads.
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2015-06-27, 11:55pm
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2015-06-28, 10:46am
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Blow on the spot you have just twisted with the stringer until it cools enough to break the stringer off (wiggle it).......just don't get so close to the bead that you wind up "kissing" it. That hurts!
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2015-06-28, 12:34pm
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LOL, will do, thanks!
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2015-06-28, 3:13pm
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I keep a short section of brass tube for that kind of spot cooling.
I just don't trust my blower to that kind of hot glass. A kiss could wind up becoming quit an event!
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2015-06-28, 6:40pm
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A pain in the kisser!
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2015-06-28, 6:48pm
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A lesson to be learned only once!
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2015-06-28, 8:45pm
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Make your frit bead.
Then apply a zigzag of the white stringer.
Then heat the surface, and with the stringer rake a smaller zig zag. Around the bead.
It's about heating the surface enough to move it, but not so much the whole bead is soupy.
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2015-06-28, 9:33pm
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Christine
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Gonna try it tomorrow, thanks!!
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