Peed off with Pandora

[Lush!]

I know there's another thread about Pandora, but I didn't want to hijack.

The first time I used Pandora, I made this bead - I was dead chuffed.



Well, its sold, and I want to make another .. and another .. and ..

But I CAN'T 



The spacers are coming out okay, the really small ones are lovely, but the lentils are poopy pandora pants 

I've tried them in different parts of the kiln, for different lengths of time - this is just a small selection of my rubbish results.  This stuff is too expensive to keep messing us about like this!

[mjbelkin]

I'll happily take them off your hands to save your embarrassment 

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

They really are nice as they are, but I know what you mean, you aren't paying all that money for cack coloured glass

[nemeton]

Blimey Tan, if my cack was that colour, I'd be seriously worried! 
Julie, I think they're a lovely colour, actually... but I can see why you don't feel they measure up to the original one, which was several lovely colours all at once!

[garishglobes]

Could you re-anneal them? Does Pandora go in a kind of cycle, so if you annealed again, you might get a different colour? I've just annealed some Terra beads and they've gone from lovely purples and greens to dark brown - I thought I'd try sticking them back in the kiln to see what happened..
I agree they look very nice like they are, but I can also see that its frustrating if you wanted a different effect.

[Lush!]

Re-anneal them?

Now there's an idea!  Nowt to lose, I'll give it a go 

[nemea]

I know you really wanted to recreate the original bead but I rather like them. So if re-annealling does not work.....I'll be fighting all the others for them!

[magickminx]

Yeah, I think they are ded awful, best you could do with that lot I'm afraid is to send them to me! Te he

[Magpie]

With all my years of experience (about a third of a year to be precise ) and the huge length of time I've had the kiln (approx 3 weeks ) and the fun and games I had over the weekend I'd suggest, if you were to have another go, to dance round the room with the bead before it goes in the kiln. So it cools down a bit more. The cooler beads definitely came out with more bluer colours. Also the smaller beads will cool quicker so will probably react better. I'm sticking the lentil I made back in for another go coz it's only a few bits of blue.

[Redhotsal]

I reannealed a poopy Pandora for about six hours and it came out exactly the same as it went in! 

[Lush!]

Cheers for that happy thought, Sal 

I'll think of you while I dance round the room 

[Redhotsal]

Soz 

[Dragonfire Glass]

I'm trying really hard to see the value in a glass I have to anneal for far longer than I usually have the kiln on for, with absolutely no guarantee of the results!

[Kaz]

Me too Colette - I have decided not to invest in this one for a change!
Kaz

[dinah46]

I must admit that although I spent far too much on the last DH odds I just wasn't tempted by pandora and reading this and other threads, I haven't regretted it yet.