Fumming

[chipperpottery]

Please, how do you do fuming on beads...like gold?

Rita

[Stacy]

You get a small amount of precious metal that you want to fume onto the bead.. then you put it directly into the flame right next to the candles. You can either put this onto a heat resistant pole , ie Quartz? I think or I've seen people using tweesers in vids from the states (although I've always thought you would contaminate the fume with the metals from the tweesers??) anyway. Once it is in the flame you rotate your bead or object in the top part of the flame hence catching the fume which is being burnt off the metal.

I'm sure there is a vid on youtube you could view?

You can also buy kids from Di East here:
http://www.glass2wear.com/fumingkit.htm

[beadysam]

You can also buy kids from Di East here:
http://www.glass2wear.com/fumingkit.htm

OMG! Has Di started selling children!!!!

[squirsygirl]

You can also buy kids from Di East here:
http://www.glass2wear.com/fumingkit.htm

OMG! Has Di started selling children!!!!

I'll take two, as long as they're well behaved and can make a decent sandwich!

Kirsty

[Steampunkglass]

Just to add you should make sure you've got really good extraction or even better a proper mask as the heavy metals are in vapour form which can be breathed in

[garishglobes]

YouTube videos -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txJxlcRrBiM&feature=PlayList&p=D7B6417171D5AFB2&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQGSLT3JuQ&feature=related

Ventilation is crucial!!

Kids from Di East....tempting, but we've got quite a few already...its like glass, I've promised not to buy any more