Iris gold

[Sal]

I have been gifted some iris gold frit (huge  to KJ!) and just wondered if anyone has advice on how to use it/good combinations etc etc. I know it's a reduction frit (I think) and so I need to make a little collar for my hothead for it to even possibly work but is there anything else I should do? Is it likely to work on a hothead?

Would love some tips on where to start 
Thankyou!
Sal xx

[Buzzybead]

Sal - it's my absolute favourite. I even buy the stringer from America, I'm that hooked. I work on a HH and it loves that frit. Reduce it to get a gold/bronze look. Lightly reduce it over dark ivory for some stunning mossy greens, browns and golds. I'm struggling with it slightly when I use it as a stringer on bigger beads - I think I'm letting the bead get too cold OR the bead is getting too cold in this weather. Oh yes - run it over Moretti Black (264?) I won't tell you what happens but it's not what I expected.

[Mary]

Dip a rod of Straw Yellow (Effetre 049) or Light Brown (Effetre 018), maybe some silver leaf/foil, and pull into stringers for some cool cloudy blue/green effects! Or try it on Rubino!

[*rowanberry*]

As Mary suggested...
Make a ball of glass at the end of a rod of straw yellow or trans light brown roll it in the iris gold... then melt it in, do it again, melt it in... pull a stringer from it. The apply stringer in a random fashion on top of a base bead of cobalt blue, melt in HOT, then encase :-) You'll be surprised at what colours you will see!

[Dragonfire Glass]

iris gold on transparent cobalt

[Sal]

iris gold on transparent cobalt

OMG! How truly beautiful! Is that iris gold frit you've used? Wow! Just need to give it a go now  Thanks for all the advice!

[Trudi]

Hi

I know you can use frit - but is it possible to get the old Iris Gold rods - the new ones suck! I tried it but with no joy at all