The curious incident bead....

[Kaz]

Yesterday I made some(really rather nice!) round beads from CIM crocus with purple rose frit. I then put on dots of Kalypso and encased them and then pulled them. I finally added smaller dots of black (Reichenbach) with white on top in between the encased Kalypso dots. After I had cleaned them a couple of the black and white dots came off when I was drying them. They were fully adhered when I made the beads. Then I decided to see if I could pull any more of these dots off by hand and amazingly I could. Clearly a case of complete incompatibility (which I have only ever had happen once before with ivory dots on ASK glass). Any suggestions as to where the incompatibility lies?
Kazx

[hollergrafik]

I have had issues with cracking with Reich black, had a bead on top of my glass unit for about 3 months, I was sat in my studio and heard a pop, reich black encased with 006 was in 2 bits on the floor.

[julieHB]

I must admit I am a bit wary of the CIM glasses, having had beads crack on me months after I made them - that has mainly been when I have encased them in another glass, though, and could have been me not paying enough attention to their sometimes fussy annealing requirements.

[ScarletLeonard]

I didn't get on with the reichenbach black at all. Midway through making a bead I had dots on the opposite (still warm) side pop off. I mostly chalked it down to something I must have done wrong but it never happened with any other black.

[pixiewillow]

which reichenbach black are you using??
I use the deep black and so far no problems (I hope!)

[Kaz]

For that bead I used the normal Reichenbach black.
I have been using deep black for murrini and no problems with that.
Kazx

[pixiewillow]

Ahhhhh I'll steer clear of that one then! 

[Redhotsal]

Sounds like the Reichenbach black. Why don't you do a compatibility pull with the two glasses that it's sandwiched between? Reich's a nice glass but I would be wary of mixing any Reich with Double Helix or CIM. Too diffferent,

[hollergrafik]

Mine was the normal black too

[Shirley]

you could also try making the bead again but using one of the CIM blacks instead

[Kaz]

I'm one step ahead of you Shirley and this time I have put white on the bottom and black on top (Hades)
Kazx