I just adore this colour - superb dark blue - and when I use it to decorate it's beautiful and fine. But If it use it in most of the bead it pits like mad!! I can see it sparking in the flame and the end result looks naff!! After a tip on a different thread I used it to encase turquise - but oh boy, it was darn gone and pitted!
Does anyone have any tips to work it please?
Is that the one you got from me Trudi?
I posted in another thread that it boiled on me.
I ended up etching the set I made with it
when I use it if I don't melt it in the top of the flame it does that trudi, so either we've all got the same dodgy batch, or thats just what it does :-\
I had another rod too Colette - thought I'd try another one - but it's the same!! I must have missed your post - any tips??
And how did the etching go?
Vicki - I thought of that too - In Sarah Hornik's book she says it's a spreding colour like Rubino - so I put it higher up - still no joy!
Mine boils too. It does seem to like being worked high up in the flame...
it is workable though, you just can't allow yourself to forget & slide down the flame or you've lost your bead to the sparkley burn :'(
I made a couple of spacers a few days ago and it was fine ? I got a couple of rods in a mixed bunch from Hamilton Taylor
Mine does that too - it needs to be worked further out.
Quote from: June on November 09, 2008, 11:09:02 PM
I made a couple of spacers a few days ago and it was fine ? I got a couple of rods in a mixed bunch from Hamilton Taylor
Perhaps more luck than judgement, then !! ;D
the spacers I made were fine, just the bigger beads weren't :(
Mine boils too - I know that's no help, sorry! But I am used of having my torch on full frontal attack, so I know I burn things easily!
I have my oxycon at 3 1/2 generally - a bit cooler than some, I think? - and it still bubbles.
Quote from: sparrow on November 10, 2008, 07:57:49 AM
But I am used of having my torch on full frontal attack, so I know I burn things easily!
oo-er missus :D