Frit-Happens !

Lampwork => COE 104 => Topic started by: cbeadies on October 30, 2010, 08:38:16 PM

Title: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: cbeadies on October 30, 2010, 08:38:16 PM
Hi, just wondering whether anyone can recommend a silver glass which works well on a hothead?  (I guess this may have been discussed before but I can't find it!)
Thanks,
Jill x
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: helbels on October 30, 2010, 08:43:02 PM
Triton, Aurae, Psyche are all fantastic on a Hothead - you can't really go wrong with any of them.
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: cbeadies on October 30, 2010, 08:52:33 PM
 :) Thanks Helen, I thought you might know! I'll try a rod of each of those. Funds are low and I didn't want to splash out on something that would just end up as murky brown!

x
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: helbels on October 30, 2010, 08:56:00 PM
I actually think of all those 3 work BETTER on a Hothead than on a Duel Fuel - Psyche in particular :-)
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: turnedlight on October 30, 2010, 08:58:44 PM
Deffo Triton :)
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: Blue Box Studio on October 30, 2010, 11:10:41 PM
Ooh might try them too.  So far silver brown, multicolour, chelcedony have failed to do anything for me other than poo on a stick!  I'm determined that one day something will pop colours and surprise me.  That or I need to find a use for poo brown beads :(

Whoi sells them by the single rod?  Any clues?
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: Nikki on October 30, 2010, 11:13:26 PM
Off-mandrel have them
http://off-mandrel.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=65_70_106
;D
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: Blue Box Studio on October 30, 2010, 11:34:52 PM
OK Jill, are you going first or shall I? If you haven't tried any of the others I've listed come on over to Clevedon and I'll let you have some of mine - I owe you coffee (and will get my act together as soon as my fairs finish for this year, bit manic at the mo).  Sue
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: dangerousbead on October 31, 2010, 12:20:16 AM
Ekho works too.
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: Blue Box Studio on October 31, 2010, 09:47:39 AM
I'll start with the other three and see how I get on.  I'm too easily tempted otherwise.
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: jo.rhodes on October 31, 2010, 11:19:34 AM
I can definitely vouch for psyche on the hot head, especially when you encase it too, you can get a really good range of colours: blues, turquoise, purple, greens.  Best glass I own!
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: cbeadies on October 31, 2010, 01:32:56 PM
Thanks everyone for the very helpful replies.

(Blue Box Sue...I'll pm you!)
x
Title: Re: Recommended DH glass for hot head?
Post by: Shirl on November 03, 2010, 12:26:32 AM
On my hothead I have found the best is Triton, then Ekho, and then Aurae. Some of the others sometimes give a good result, other times they dont!
I havent tried my 1 rod of Psyche yet so cant advise on that one :)