making a twistie with reactive/reduction glass

[firedinglass]

How do you do this?  When do you reduce  the glass or as with raku get it too pop?  if you mange to do it say when it is as a lollipop shape before twisitng , does it change again when you are heating etc when on the final bead?  any tips or help from those of you who have had success making twisties with DH glass or raku?

[sublimekate]

I'm really glad you've asked this question, I can't really help as I've tried and failed, in fact yesterday I was doing that exact thing and had a disaster 

I twisted Psyche with purple and ended up with orangey greeny pleat beads Afterward I thought it was pretty obvious that was going to happen, but my brain mustn't have been working properly.

[firedinglass]

Well I've made one encased after popping the colours and one normally, tomorrow I'll see what they look like on beads as it's difficult to tell in twisties.  Still no expert advice from anyone

[Shirley]

If I make them I usually reduce after the twistie has been applied to a bead. That way it reacts with the base bead and you avoid the birs poop.

[garishglobes]

I'd say you need to make the twistie normally.
For reducing glasses - you can't encase reducing glass in a twistie unless you reduce it first (and I wouldn't have thought it would look great because the reduced bit spreads out). I'd also say its worth not making the reducing glass bits too thin, but that could just be me . Be careful not to get the thing too hot while you are making the twistie or while applying it, to avoid burning the silver. Melt in (or not) carefully and then reduce.
For striking glasses (raku, TN2 etc..) again make the twistie normally but it wouldn't matter as much if you did encase except that clear can act as a bit of an insulator. Once you have the design on you can aim heat at the bits you want to strike.
The results for both types depend a lot on what you twist them with, and what you put them over.

[Trudi]

great tips!

[firedinglass]

With all this info can't wait to get out there and try.....  i would have today but had a second viewing for sale of my house.  I thought it was going well until the little boy fell in my pond!!!!!!! Oh well......

[Jolene]

Oh No!