I have a love hate thing with my frit. I don't necessarily like to roll my beads in frit. I just don't like the look. However, I always give something new a try like I did last night. It's just not me.
What I absolutely love about frit is that I can pull stringer from it and get the detail and colors I want. My all time favorites are copper blue, copper red (most favorite), and mercury luster. I love stringered frit, even when it's wrapped around another color.
Umm.. Yeah... I have .. well I will have about 100 colors after this Frit Bulk Buy gets done :))
The experiments with frit that I saw were mostly in the glass instead of on the glass, as I have usually seen. So the beads were smooth, and the frit looked like Kool-ade crystals when they first start to blend with the water.
Tina
I'm sooooo hooked on Val's frits!!!! I'm the same way, nearly every morning I look to see what's new. I'm waiting for more tangerine at the moment.
I'll have some fritty beads up on auction with my next batch Tuesday. Way cool stuff going on!
KarenK
Yes, that's the stuff; it's just furnace glass frit, usually sold only in large quantities, repackaged to be palatable to the lampworker market. Val has quite the cottage industry going! I'm considering following suit and selling off some of my extra Bullseye frit... a pound is about sixteen ounces more than I need!
-Kalera
Christ> That's the frit that a lot of the people onWC posted sample work with isn't
Val has quite the cottage industry going! I'm considering following suit and selling off some of my extra Bullseye frit... a pound is about sixteen ounces more than I need!
-Kalera
When I went to Penland several years ago - I spent several hours at Spruce Pine Batch -- and several HUNDRED DOLLARS on Kugler and Reichenbach color rod...and powder - and frit... in the hopes someday I'd do furnace work.... ( I have maybe 30 lbs of the stuff!)
DUH!!!!! OFF TO FIND MY BOXES!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!
Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
Righteous! Wow, you have the SETUP... and the cool thing is that most of them have enough lead in them to work with both Bullseye and Moretti.
Some of these frits do mind-blowing things when you encase them, not to mention putting them over silver leaf, pulling them into stringer, oh my gosh the fun is ENDLESS!
-Kalera
Cheryl wrote:
Righteous! Wow, you have the SETUP... and the cool thing is that most of them have enough lead in them to work with both Bullseye and Moretti.>
Well - I found the boxes about half of this stuff is "powder" form - because I bought it for doing flower work for paperweights at Penland - an the other half is mostly pretty large frit..... I need a "frit pounder" like they had a Pendland - so I could grind some of this down.... Weinrot was my all time favorite red -- I'm going to do some beads with it tomorrow night and see what happens...
Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
Hey! I didn't know you went to Penland! I applied for a scholarship for Summer classes there. I won't know anything until the end of March. It looks wonderful.... *sigh*
T>
Hey! I didn't know you went to Penland! I applied for a scholarship for Summer classes there. I won't know anything until the end of March. It looks wonderful.... *sigh*
yeah - I had to apply TWICE before I got in - here are pics
Noooooooooooooooo... (begging no) Some of us love large chunk frit....like me! I don't like the powder stuff and I usually pull into stringer. Val hasn't had any large stuff in a while.
I can't talk about my frit collection... it can hear me!
However my baggies arrived today, and I can start selling off some of my Bullseye frit to help finance the purchase of more Bullseye frit...
-Kalera
Black Cat Beads wrote:
Hey Kalera....
I have been wanting to try out some of the colors you cant get in rods... do you have any that I can buy or trade or...... I just want like one of each. :)
Nicole
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I'm waiting impatiently for my new stash of Zen White and Tangerine from Val. DYING for the tangerine!!!! I now have every color Val sells plus all the colors from Arrow Springs. Me, hooked? Nahhhhhhhhh.
KarenK
I am stilllllll waiting on my tangarine and 2 others... the first shipment got lost... I hope the 2nd gets here soon!!!
I can start selling off some of my Bullseye frit to help finance the purchase of more Bullseye frit...
-Kalera>
pssttt whatcha got too much of???? Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
I got the Zen White...I'm not as crazy about it yet. I can see possibilities. I guess my favorite is still copper red.
Inquiring junkies would like to know what colors...hint hint.
I have several non-rod colors... actually, I will have some bagged and photographed tomorrow, and up on the website. These will NOT be expensive frits, I figured I'd sell most of them for $5 including shipping for a 2-oz package. I got a couple of the super-duper expensive colors too, but even those are only going to be $8 including shipping, and you don't need 1311 anyway because it comes in rods too. I could put together a 1-oz sampler pack too... do you think I should? One of each (I only have nine colors... so far)?
-Kalera
Black Cat Beads wrote:
I have nine colors that I bought a pound each of... orange, cranberry pink, striking pink, gold purple, dark royal purple, light aventurine green, steel blue (it's neat; it reduces by itself in the kiln) and uh, I can't remember the rest. I'll let you know!
-Kalera
Cheryl wrote:
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