Can someone please explain?

My non-bead makers guess would be that a lot of folks would rather spend their time makign the beads rather than doing the prep work. You took all the prep work out of it by offering your stringer for sale.

Well crud, that does make sense. I just put prep work into every bead before I begin. Like last night I spent three hours making canes and stringer for my floral bead. I only got one turned out like I wanted but it was good practice.

The twisties and the reduction frit stringers are what I am after. Twisties are a pain to make, and it looks like you have a nice variety. :)

Same here - it seems like the prep work can take longer than making the ebads themselves. I spend a ton of time mixing glass, pulling stringer, making encased cane and sometimes even twisties.

It all makes sense now. It's funny because I would just throw out a whole lot of stringer before. I thought I would put it on the Bay to get someone who might use it. I go back to that jar in 1 out of maybe 250 beads. The reduction stringer jar is never used. If I don't use the stringer I pull the first time it sits in the jar.

Ebads? As in... E's bad, e's bad... .. Considering your beads... E's bad, in today's vernacular :-) Diana

yep - and some of us like to use stringer, but aren't so good at making it yet. (and yes I made some today)

ME TOO!!

I absolutely love to make twisties. I'll make twisties all day above beads. I know I'm weird.

This is a non-lampworker question: Please tell me what a stringer is.

And I would like to know.. is it usual .. or common for pre-done stringers to be sold? Im wondering, if you have so much fun making twisties.. whatever that is (all art forms have their inspeak I guess) then why not do it more often? Diana

Of course we can explain. We as in lampworkers. Stringer is pulling glass into a fine string like rod. Most of the time it's used to apply dots, squigles, etc.

Twisties come in a variety of ways but it is basically taking two or more colors, melting them together, and twisting them together to form a rod of glass. Most of my twisties are made by making a paddle of one color and applying colors to each side of the paddles. Then I will usually encase both sides of the paddle and twist into a rod.

LOL - I keep mis-typing that word for some reason. Bad, bad, bad!

Well, make more and I'll buy!! Make reduction frit stringer in that pretty gold color and I will buy! I don't have any of that and I keep meaning to get some.

I can do that. Gold reduction stringer is my all time favorite. I made a buttload last night and hardly used any. :-(

It's funny, there are days when I have a LOT more fun making stringer, from simple stuff to complex latticino, than I do making beads. It's just a different kind of groove.

KarenK

Oooooh I'll be your twistie girl! I love doing those! I just suck at putting them on beads afterwards. LOL

KarenK

Starlia do you have any of Val's Copper Ruby frit? That makes gorgeous garnet red stringer. Just keep it marked somehow because it's totally clear after you pull it.

KarenK

I have tons of copper red. It's one of my favorite colors to use. Copper Red as well as some others like Gold turn clear when pulled into stringer.