effetre aqua

[Sherry Bellamy]

For what it's worth, my last batch of the pale transparent aqua was nasty, nasty stuff. So many bubbles, it could have been sold as that "seeded glass". For an added bonus, it was really scummy, too.

[Vicki]

I've had this problem with certain colours that I didn't have previously, I've tried every torch setting & melting the glass in slow motion, but no joy at all...I've even had to take turquoise spacers of my website because of this....I have no idea whats different to before   maybe if we knew the answer it would help both of us...unfortunatly I haven't a clue!

I am having terrible problems with my Effetre dark turquoise, burning, pitting and it seems to reduce just by looking at the flame.. it's so bad that I'm not using the stuff.. and I have 1/2 kilo., I know for certain that my last dark turquoise from Tuffnells was fine, this batch is terrible. My light turquoise is ok though.

snap, thats exactly like it is with me too fiona

[fionaess]

Why do we just accept stuff like this?  What should we do about it?  Case in point.. I bought a packet of biscuits from M&S last week, I buy them fairly regularly so I know what they should be like, these were hard, almost to the point of being like biscotti, so I took them back, complained, got a replacement and my money back...  Surely someone has an answer to this..

[stephanie]

I thought my problems with the transparent aqua & teal must be because I haven't been doing this for very long! I also get scum and big frazzly bubbles, I tried cleaning the rods extra well before use, but it made no difference.