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Mind Melt: April 2013
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104 COE Glass Colour Testing Results and Glass Musings. April 10, 2013. Test Results : Mosaic Green. 1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced and encased), 5 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 6 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 7 and 8 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory and Peace. Effetre Mosaic Green is another crazy colour. I seem to be writing up test results for quite a few of those lately. When Mosaic Green is used on top of Copper Green, a light turquoise halo ...
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Mind Melt: Winter Colour Diet :: Session #8
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104 COE Glass Colour Testing Results and Glass Musings. May 9, 2015. Winter Colour Diet : Session #8. As it turns out, I like these colours enough that I am just going to keep right on going with this palette for the forseeable future, using stuff up and putting new colours in as I run out of things. It's a healthy way to work through the unwieldy stash of glass I have in the spare room, and I work better with this structure in place. Bead, I dub thee 'Clown Paint'. This bead used a twistie made from Abs...
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Mind Melt: Test Results :: Absinthe
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104 COE Glass Colour Testing Results and Glass Musings. May 14, 2015. Test Results : Absinthe. 1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - Reduced and Encased, 4 and 5 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory, and Peace. So, to successfully get some colour out of Absinthe, I followed the following steps:. 1 Get it on the mandrel and get it the shape you want in a neutral flame. 2 Let the bead cool significantly outside of the flame. 5 Repeat steps 2-4 until the bead has all the colour you want. I work on a ...
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Mind Melt: November 2014
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104 COE Glass Colour Testing Results and Glass Musings. November 26, 2014. Test Results : Cobalt. 1 - Plain (reduced), 2 - Plain, 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced and encased), 5 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 6 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 7 - Silver Glass Frit Stringer (encased), 8 and 9 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory, Peace. I read a post on Lampwork Etc. by Sarah Kay. Using Cobalt in my silver glass frit stringer test yielded a partial success. It is interesting that it ...
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Guide to Lampworking Glass | Me, In An Atypical Way
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Me, In An Atypical Way. Guide to Lampworking Glass. Guide to Lampworking Glass. First, there is Satake Glass. Also available from Arrow Springs. Lead line only) in California, and Dogmaw Glass. Then there are the C.O.E. 104 glasses. Effetre (formerly known as Moretti) and Vetrofond are both Italian glasses widely available in several glass stores. My favorite is Flame Tree Glass. And Moretti and More. Just to name a few), also carry the Italian glasses. 82 colors) in Connecticut, Glass Daddy. Precision 1...
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Mind Melt: Test Results :: Black Pearl
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104 COE Glass Colour Testing Results and Glass Musings. May 21, 2015. Test Results : Black Pearl. 1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - Plain (reduced and encased), 4 &5 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory, and Peace. Precision 104 glass and I have not had a very extensive relationship, but I have deep love for this colour. Precision. To reduce Black Pearl:. Black Pearl keeps its reduction under clear, but it does not really develop a mother of pearl look to it. Copper Green goes a dark, greyish ...
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Mind Melt: May 2014
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104 COE Glass Colour Testing Results and Glass Musings. May 28, 2014. Test Results : Clockwork. Is a vibrant, happy orange transparent. It is not as easy to strike as Effetre Striking Orange (072). But it is not difficult either, once you get the hang of it. It's easier for me to strike this colour in larger beads than smaller ones. I'll put it on my wish list underneath 'Transparent Coral'. Than anything I've ever seen in nature. Ignore the weird mark that looks like a crack in the right-most bead. ...
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Mind Melt: October 2014
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104 COE Glass Colour Testing Results and Glass Musings. October 29, 2014. Test Results : Tangerine Sparkle. 1 - Plain (reduced), 2 - Plain, 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced and encased), 5 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 6 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 7 and 8 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory, and Peace. Reducing Tangerine Sparkle without any additives does not seem to have any impact at all on the colour. Deep in the Tangerine Sparkle, as you might imagine, there are sparkles.