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2009-06-30, 9:52pm
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What do you do with seeded glass tube?
Since I am still fairly new to lampworking, what do you do with seeded glass tube? http://www.frantzartglass.com/index....ndex&cPath=150
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2009-07-01, 5:31am
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Make beads.  I love it for plunged florals with goldstone stringer and vine cane. I hear you can make nice vessels with it. I think bubbles can be a beautiful feature in a bead - obviously not huge ones that weaken the bead, but a little one here and there, floating in my transparent beads.
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2009-07-01, 5:54am
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Check past gallery posts for some of Tink's work - she used it a lot, to great effect!
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2009-07-01, 6:06am
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Ok I am now so confused! When I first started lampworking I bought lots of BE rods only to later find out that lots of the rods I had bought where "seeded" with a thin line of bubbles down the entire length of the rods. I found these rods to be useless and was told by more than one professional in the field that being "seeded" was a defect that happens during the manufactouring of the rods. I have since switched to using 104 because I found so many of BE rods to be "seeded", at least the ones I bought.
So can someone please explain the difference to me?
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2009-07-01, 6:10am
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These are intentionally seeded with tons of little bubbles, and they are actually tubes instead of solid rods.
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2009-07-01, 6:11am
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David - to be more specific, Tink used them for wound vessels and beads.
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2009-07-01, 10:01am
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Effetre seeded is deliberately seeded. Occasionally a cane of glass has a bubble or hollow running end to end (think of a straw, except the hole is pin-sized). One workaround that has helped is sealing off one end of the rod (make a small gather and squish) which hampers the intake of air.
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2009-07-01, 10:11am
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Seeded glass makes really cool hollow beads.
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2009-07-01, 2:44pm
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Hollow beads, cool, I am trying that tonight!
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2009-07-01, 7:58pm
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OK, I thought maybe you did something "special" with it. Like blown stuff.
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2009-07-02, 9:21am
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I think Tink's vessels are blown, actually. But as far as working it goes, I think the only real issue with it is that it is very shocky.
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2009-07-02, 11:56am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cghipp
I think Tink's vessels are blown, actually. But as far as working it goes, I think the only real issue with it is that it is very shocky.
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Correct, her vessels are blown, but not in the sense usually associated with tubing. She treats the seeded glass just like solid rod. Seeded glass tubing is far too delicate to blow in the manner of say, Shane Fero or Steve Sizelove.
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