I've been playing around with a few ideas I've had for a while, and my reach continues to exceed my grasp. In trying to make long beads on my hothead, I am constantly running up against the challenge of keeping both ends warm on a relatively cool flame. This one didn't turn out too bad, since at least I had a good tank of gas and was able to get some decent heat up. The base is Effetre apple blush and the ends are Effetre dark matter. I came up a bit short but that's a design feature because I will be making a hanger to allow this to hang from a belt. For now I've got a spacer holding its place.
Got some reduction on the DH Psyche there....
This is the same bead right after annealing. I got some color out of the Pandora, but I think I reduced it a little too much.
I like this aspect...
This is the same combination of colors on a focal. I love the colors I got and The fuming from the silver is neat.
I like the color of the Pandora on this...
This was my first attempt to make a long bead on a half empty tank and was having real heat control issues. I'd just get one end starting to melt in nicely, go to reheat the other and pop a chunk off. Neat striking of the CiM Canyon de Chelly, which is under all that, but not enough development of everything else.
I finally decided that this turd was not going to polish up any better and gave up. It's a bead only a mother could love, and strangely, I do like it.
Finally, my first skeleton key bead. Must scrub the rest of the bead release out of the teeth, unless I want to hang onto the really aged look.
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