So, I've had this pack of DH for aaaages and thought i'd crack it open to try for the BHB swap. I know I've had it a while as there's some rods in here that don't appear on the DH website (Aion, Elekra & Luna, not 2's)
I just wanted to know before I start, which of the following I should not allow near my hothead (MAPP gas)
Pandora, Nyx, Gaia, Kronos 2, Aion, Elektra & Luna.
Thanks in advance!
Rachel x
Luna for sure! You need to heat it to snot to get colours out of it.
I like Kronos 2 on my hothead, though sometimes it just goes blue, and othertimes it goes blue-green with gold webs! But I'm not sure how I manage it.
I must admit that I have had some success with luna on my HH - although the odd one or two of each effort is defo reminiscent of good old baby poo. Nyx works well but I find some of the mirror shine will come off in the kiln. Pandora should be fine as its a kiln striker (I haven't tried mine but that is because I'm a kiln-striking virgin). Gaia and elektra just seem to remain bluey green when I try them. As a result I tend to stick to aurae, triton, psyche and now terra2 on the HH. There are some good old threads kicking around with what DH is best on a HH (I think in the newbie section as I asked the same kind of thing when I first got my DH mixed pack).
nxy is also a kiln striker, but you can get some reaction in the flame too!
Aion will be fine - great over black sightly reduced!
Pandora is great on the hot head, as AnnaSpanna says it's a kiln striker. Just make sure it goes in the kiln relatively cool (or batch anneal) that's how I get the good colours.
Aion is brilliant for storming if you've got the storm tutorial, but I don't get too many different colours out of it.
Electra has been a bit hit and miss for me, but has been slightly better than gaia which is definitely more miss than hit. I've stormed electra with relatively little effort.
ohh - I've never tried getting the pandora really cool - I turn up the kiln temp to 545!
Quote from: Trudi on May 28, 2010, 12:52:39 PM
ohh - I've never tried getting the pandora really cool - I turn up the kiln temp to 545!
I generally batch anneal, they ramp up fairly quick and soak for a couple of hours, and I usually get the blues with a hint of the purples. I get the salmon pinkish beigey colour if I anneal as I go and just shove them straight in the kiln without waiting that bit extra for them to cool a bit more. Also get the salmon pinkish beigey colour if I batch and anneal as I go, so that they sit in the kiln for about 4 hours on 480 then and hour on 520. I need to try to remember not to do that.
Gaia will work on the HH but you have to get it quite cool, then just waft it in and out of the tip of the reduction flame. Oh, and I always have a bit of charcoal in my kiln, you tend to keep the reduction shine that way.
Never had any problems with Nyx when I was on my HH.. work it like Psyche