I felt the same way with the mold idea. I don't like the concept very much. However, I did order a pair of tapcraft small lentil makers and I really like using them.
I'm not making a lot of lentils because of the same reasons you said. However, the few I make will be in addition to whatever set I'll do...for now. I'll probably give these itsy bitsy ones to Melissa.
Bingo!
Ayup...that would do it.
There ya go! Get them creative juices flowing! Hot er dog :) A lot of good things happening here!
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Thank you for the good description. I was wondering how they kept molten glass on a stick. Maybe now would be a good time to learn using 2 instead of 1? :)
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You just had to ask, didn't you. HAW:
No better time than the present to explore. :) I will have everyone making M&M's with 2 holes for bracelets before you know it! lol
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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "meijhana" :
]If you tried to take 2, and keep them ]level with each other *and* rotate, it would be a *lot* more difficult.
now THERE's a tool i'll bet would come in handy - a "double" mandrel with one handle . . .
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I like those beads just as they are, though they aren't colors I would buy. I also am not terribly excited about the lentil shape. For me, the don't work up into something easily, as round beads ften do.
The lentil beads I have are a clear aqua and green, blended (but not homogenous) with scroll work in another blue; and lentils in a "burnt metalics" that look sort of like artifacts of some sort. Another favourite lentil of mine is the one Kalera has on her web page. A sort of mandarin orange/red with a simple trail of silver.
I think scrolls, and "tribal" markings work well on them. The all over but varying "animal prints" look good. And I'll bet some of the frit work that I've seen experimental sample of would be really cool. A blush, again i analagous colors -- like magenta with purple blush.
Tina
Or you could use real seeds or wooden lentil beads.
Actually, you can get wooden ones that are the standard "glass lentil" shape, and they're much lighter than the glass ones. As for real seeds, there's tons of varieties of various shapes and sizes and some are "lentil" shaped. They work better if one's making a piece with thick clusters or layers where weight might be an issue.
I have a button mandrel that will hold two rods at once and I can still turn pretty easily. I might try this tonight with my itsy bitsy lentil tongs.
yep - that was what I was thinking too,,, could work!
Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass
Lentils, the seed (a legume and therefore sometimes referred to as a bean) share a name-origin with glass beads of the same shape; both are lens-shaped. A lenticular object is a lentil.
-Kalera
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LOL it's true... but I do what I like, whether it is or is not popular, even if that means sometimes I'm doing exactly what everyone else is doing! When I got my nose pierced in 1992, one of my friends scoffed at me, "But *everyone* is doing that!"
Yes, and I didn't let it stop me just because I'm supposed to be "different". I'm doing plunged florals for the same reason. They're not commanding much, price-wise, because I think the market is "over" them... but I think it's an important skill to master, and I like them, and each skill fits into a bigger picture in the long run.
-Kalera
T> ...and I must be missing something because I just don't like them all
LOL...sounds like we are sister's in art. I had my nose pierced too. Not because everyone else is doing it, but because it so fits my personality.
Both of which derive their name from "lens". Lenticular clouds are the ones that presage a snow storm, and are sometimes mistaken for flying saucers.
Tina
Oooooh! Wouldja believe we see quite a few lenticular clouds out here??? I told my DD about them back in the mid 90's, and used them on a radio show (well, SHE did) to "Stump the Science Guys" (she won a T-shirt and free passes to the planetarium). They tend to "grow" near the Superstition Mts on a seasonally regular basis. I was thrilled when we saw our first real one 2 years ago. And it was VERY UFO-like. (no snow, though, tyvm)
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That is way cool. Do you have any photos?
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They form when a colder wind comes over the mountains above warmer wetter air on the lee side. The "shape" of the wind coming up and over is what gives the clouds that curve on top.
Tina
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