CHERYL!!!!!!!! Guess what I did!!!! OT sort of

Oh yeah - they always LOOK perfect hot!

I knew that video would get you. You had a cherry wood mold already I take it... which reminds me- I think mine may be going dry in the bucket.... ooops Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

OMG. The poor marble was in a zillion pieces when I opened the kiln. *sigh* Sure is fun though. I'll be making more. I have a graphite marble mold, but I've been wanting cherry wood for a long time. There's a guy named Walter in WV who makes awesome ones I've heard.

Oooohhhhhh :( My condolences on the shattered marble!

OMG. The poor marble was in a zillion pieces when I opened the kiln. *sigh* Sure is fun though.>>>

ahhh -- you let it chill too much before you got it into the kiln OR you used some glass that was not compatible..... (I did that once) Were you using the "PYREX PUNTY" method that he uses? If so - that is the source of your problem - you cannot leave even a DROP of the pyrex on/in the marble - or BLAM..... the alternative to this - told to me by Drew Fritts

use a new/clean STEEL MANDREL - a bead mandrel - and use the TIP OF IT asyour punty... .it's a bit trickier - and you have to practice getting it"stuck" on the end without going too deep.But you never have another Pyrex shattered marble.Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Tink" :

]OMG. The poor marble was in a zillion pieces when I opened the kiln. *sigh*

any idea why?????

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

Either I didn't keep it warm enough or there was a speck of Pyrex left from the puntying process. I did another one a few minutes ago: Dark purple with lime green and goldstone stripes, then twisted (just like me). It made it into the kiln intact, and I'm running the cycle while we're gone this afternoon so I should be able to pull it out when we return. YAY!

I'm liking this marble thing WAY too much. Yikes!

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Ah, no. Marbles don't have holes.

Have you ever seen the semi-round marble molds that your glass supplier might have in their tools section? That's what you make them with. You start out sort of making a gather and then just keep making it bigger and bigger until you can start to round it up in the marble form. The term punty is the term for the rod of glass you use to handle the marble once you have to start working on the opposite side of the marble that you formed the gather from. You have to attach another piece of glass on the opposite side of the marble from where you started "growing" it on the rod you first melted the gather from.

Confused yet?

I got some hot fingers to help melt off what was left of the punty. I made my first marbles (heck, I think all my marbles) with boro. I think it is a bit more forgiving about being left out in the cold when you're rounding it up in the mold. It uses a hellacious amount of oxygen though.

- Sandy

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Bacchae" :

]Ah, no. Marbles don't have holes.

TINK! how am i gonna use 'em in jewelry if they don't have HOLES?!?!?!?

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

wire?

Ah, no. Marbles don't have holes.>>>

They are VIRGIN BEADS...

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Beads are marbles that have lost their virginity. ;-)>

I see - I've corrupted you too Karen - remember when I posted that wayyyy back when on AOL -and everyone thought it was such a hoot!

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WOW

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Well, the purple and lime green and goldstone marble turned out great! Yay! Prairieson and I are going to Sauder Village tomorrow which is where Mark Matthews is artist-in-residence. Should be inspirational:

Well, the purple and lime green and goldstone marble turned out great! Yay! Prairieson and I are going to Sauder Village tomorrow which is where Mark Matthews is artist-in-residence. Should be inspirational:>

Oh yeah -- I've seen his stuff in REAL LIFE (D.C. - Museum exhibit) and had an email conversation with him once... He's amazing.... ! Have fun! I love his tiger and leopard stuff Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

when on AOL -and everyone thought it was such a hoot! <

I couldn't remember if it was you or Ginger, so I just posted it without the proper credit.

Now I will KNEEL to the Supreme Punstress. Obviously that's stuck with me for a while.

-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs

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I have seen glass and stone spheres suspended in seed-bead netting, too. It should be possible to find a way to integrate it into beadwork without drilling it.

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]It should be possible to find a way to integrate it into beadwork ]without drilling it.

i'm working on it. it's driving me crazy!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

There's at least one museum (of sorts) that has dead babies.... AFIP in Washington DC has a room full of jars of "pickled babies". Also things like tatoo samples (embedded in Lucite or such), shrunken heads (Amazonian type), and the lower leg of a Civil War doctor, along with the cannonball that blew it off (the little card in the display told how he used to come and visit his leg...). It was a great field trip; lunch afterwards was good, too. Kaytee "Simplexities" on