|
Customer Service Kiosk -- Questions for LE vendors. |
2012-12-18, 7:15pm
|
|
I'm not Barbie.
|
|
Join Date: Sep 03, 2005
Location: Out of my mind - beautifully so.
Posts: 4,054
|
|
Long ago I bought a bunch of pre-made goldstone stringer. One day I pulled it down to a very thin stringer and it sparkled like crazy. So now when I need some and I don't have any of the rock on hand to make my own I pull down the stringer and it looks great. If you have some, try it, see if it makes a difference.
|
2012-12-19, 7:19pm
|
|
sunscreen me baby
|
|
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Exeter, NH
Posts: 17,496
|
|
I do the same as Sue. I bought tiny rectangle goldstone beads I use in various transparents. I heat up a big gather of clear (or color) and plunge the tiny bead into it, seal the hole and pull.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. ~ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-19, 7:52pm
|
|
I think I could be a bead
|
|
Join Date: Jun 28, 2006
Posts: 10,992
|
|
Where do you find the beads?
__________________
Mallory
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-20, 11:43am
|
|
sunscreen me baby
|
|
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Exeter, NH
Posts: 17,496
|
|
Gosh I don't really remember, maybe firemountain gems? They are similar to these:
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. ~ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-20, 5:31pm
|
|
I think I could be a bead
|
|
Join Date: Jun 28, 2006
Posts: 10,992
|
|
Thanks. I'll check those out. I didn't even know there was such at thing.
__________________
Mallory
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-23, 3:57am
|
|
Unmedicated since '62
|
|
Join Date: Jan 18, 2009
Location: Hunter Valley, Australia
Posts: 5,907
|
|
Quote:
I do the same as Sue. I bought tiny rectangle goldstone beads I use in various transparents. I heat up a big gather of clear (or color) and plunge the tiny bead into it, seal the hole and pull.
|
Clever girl!
__________________
Deb
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. - my 17yo sons first novel
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. - download, get organised, enjoy
|
2012-12-23, 7:55am
|
|
Just Me!
|
|
Join Date: Oct 22, 2005
Location: So. California
Posts: 557
|
|
Do a search on eBay, they have tons....Val
__________________
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing."
|
2012-12-23, 9:24am
|
|
I think I could be a bead
|
|
Join Date: Jun 28, 2006
Posts: 10,992
|
|
Thanks, Val!
__________________
Mallory
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-26, 5:46am
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 01, 2012
Location: Bundaberg, Australia
Posts: 158
|
|
forgive my ignorance, but are the goldstone chunks the same stuff that lapidarists use for cutting cabochon jewellery pieces from?? Terry
|
2012-12-26, 7:43am
|
|
Loving learning
|
|
Join Date: Oct 11, 2010
Location: Florida
Posts: 11,654
|
|
I used goldstone slabs here: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Looking it up I see they have new ones, Raspberry Aventurine. Has anyone tried this for compatibility yet?
Edited to say looking at the description it appears to be a different thing, so nevermind! To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-26, 9:10am
|
|
I fart diamonds
|
|
Join Date: Jun 14, 2005
Location: Altamonte Springs, FL
Posts: 3,893
|
|
Quote:
forgive my ignorance, but are the goldstone chunks the same stuff that lapidarists use for cutting cabochon jewellery pieces from?? Terry
|
Yep.
__________________
-Shawnette the original "everybody get a grip" girl
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-26, 5:08pm
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 12, 2005
Posts: 131
|
|
To Angie,
I get the goldstone pieces, preheat them in the kiln sometimes, but the pieces are small enough to preheat by the side of the flame until they warm up.
Nolly
|
2012-12-26, 6:02pm
|
|
ScrapSurfGlassPaddleSew
|
|
Join Date: Jan 22, 2012
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 3,223
|
|
Quote:
Honestly, I don't really understand why anyone buys the premade goldstone stringer -- or the goldstone rods, which are even worse. It's so much less attractive and so much more expensive than just making it yourself.
|
Because life is too short to make anything I can buy....
Which doesn't make any sense at all given that I make beads...
__________________
Pat The journey is the reward To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. L-111
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
2012-12-26, 7:01pm
|
|
Lampworkaholic!
|
|
Join Date: Apr 22, 2008
Location: Cornelius, NC - because weather
Posts: 5,158
|
|
Quote:
I used goldstone slabs here: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Looking it up I see they have new ones, Raspberry Aventurine. Has anyone tried this for compatibility yet?
Edited to say looking at the description it appears to be a different thing, so nevermind! To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
Great Slabs has been out of the gold goldstone for a long time now.
I looked at the raspberry adventurine and I think the company is differentiating between natural adventurine and manmade goldstone which is actually glass with flecks of copper. So I'm doubtful that the raspberry adventurine would melt or be compatible.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"And all will turn to silver glass, a light on the water, grey ships pass into the west." Annie Lennox
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 11:35pm.
|