Are any of you lampworkers ever going to make a set of beads representing the 9 planets? The Focal could be a big hot sun. Obviously, everything could not be to scale, but it could be sort of done like when you see mobiles or something. The big Gaseous planets are done bigger and the planets like "our's" are done smaller.
I still think this would be just way too cool and have never seen it done.
KathyH
Hey, I'd buy that! I might buy *several* of that, to have one for me and others to sell at cons!
(I've been thinking in terms of a "solar system" necklace made from stone beads for years. The problem is Saturn.)
Celine
I started a Solar System bead project over at Wet Canvas over a year ago, I think. I never got further than Jupiter. LOL! I had always kind of figured I would solve the Saturn dilemma with sterling wire wrapping.
ha, I just wrote last night in another thread further down that I was making a solar system necklace for my mom's birthday. I have a gorgeous lampwork sun bead and then the planets are all stones in various colors and sizes and I'm going to use seed beads to make the rings on the planets with rings, and stars, and the asteroid belt, and moons... it's going to be all free-form and artsy. I would have loved to have found beads of the planets with the rings right on them.... but then I don't think I would have gotten so creative in making this thing work.
:) Pam
If you poke around on Fire Mountain's website, in their "projects" department, there are instructions for making a solar system necklace with semi-precious stones.
Arondelle
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(I've been thinking in terms of a "solar system" necklace made from stone beads
for years. The problem is Saturn.)
Celine>>>
AHHH a challenge...LOL
maybe someday I will get around to it...
Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
I made a set of marbles with each as a planet, plus the sun. Saturn wasn't really that hard, but it was a bit wonky. For Mars I used green and reduced it so the copper would come out. I put them in a lidded jar (the kind bath oil beads come in) and etched "some assembly required" on the jar. Here's the pic if anyone is interested:
Absolutely! And I figure poppy jasper for Mars, and I've got some pietersite which looks like Jupiter. Neptune would probably be amazonite. But there I sort of get stuck -- none of the other planets have a real recognizable "look".
Celine
Oh Louis! That is WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 1:06:38 -0400, Lee S. Billings wrote (in message ):
I'd consider Pyrite for Mercury, with it's hot glassy surface. I know obsidian might be closer, but Pyrite looks hotter. Venus looks like a picture jasper, smoothed layers and patterns of brown.
Saturn looks a lot like a slightly lighter version of brown Tigereye. (and I'd ring it with a goldstone donut) Uranus is a lovely pale blue green, rather like Peking Onyx or solid color Amazonite. Neptune is darker and bluer, like Denim Lapis or a nice sodalite. Pluto and it's twin Charon look like a doubled golden pearl to me.
I know that I'd have to have at least a few Swarovskis, to represent icy comets. The main stringing color would have to be jet or onyx, to convey the incredible darkness of space.
All Opinions are mine (like anyone would want them), but I got all the images from:
Louis, Those are so damn cool!! The confederate flag looks a little ironic, in view of the picture of the solar system! KathyH
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It belongs to the guy whose shop is next to mine. Everybody needs local radical right-winger don't they? BTW, his rottweiler just had pups. Anybody need an attack dog?
I remember you telling about this before and it's SO COOL!
Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
WOW! Wish I could see a few other angles... how much would you charge for another one of those?
Celine
Carol in SLC New auctions:
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Tink" :
]I had always kind of figured I ]would solve the Saturn dilemma with sterling wire wrapping.
exactly!
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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Louis Cage" :
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