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Author: Glass_Masters, Contributing Editor
| Keep reheating, spinning, and jacking (lightly squeezing with tweezers while spinning) until you have a round, centered bead. If one part is sticking up and resists sagging into shape with heat you can push the high part lightly on the marver, jack it with the tweezers, and reheat to round it off.
If you do not have a way to anneal (cool very slowly) your bead, then do not make it any bigger than 8mm, and it will probably survive without cracking or breaking. Do not wear or give away beads that have not been annealed! They can have huge amounts of stress built up in them and they can go off like little bombs months later. Getting an eye and a feel for the relationship between the glass heat and it's movement takes a bit of practice. Spend a bit of time just playing with all of this, just seeing how far you can push each part of the technique until you go too far. There is no way to know the limits unless you push it on out there! |
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| Outstanding Dave! Where can we find your work displayed, and do you sell to the public?
Many of my beads and jewelry component work sell to jewelry designers on custom order. There are a few of my designs up on my website at www.davebross.com. I do a number of conceptbeads for people on custom order. I like the challenge involved when someone wants an idea translated into a bead or other jewelry component. |
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| Dave, thank you very much for the lesson in making a round bead and for giving me the pleasure of this interview. It was very insightful and informative!
You can find Dave Bross's work for sale on eBay, or click here to visit Dave's Web site! |
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