Forum: Beadmaking Techniques

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I have been cleaning out the inside of my beads with a reaming tool from Arrow Springs, soap and warm water. Despite poking and swivelling for...

If an O2 concentrator says 5 liters per minute - how does that translate to psi?

I'm trying to achieve a golden metallic effect, the way I can with silver leaf when I reduce it lightly. I've tried doing the same with gold leaf,...

I am so frustrated and feeling stupid. I can not seem to figure out how to post an image to the site and looked in the archives and couldn't find it...

Hello all-- I know I have heard talk of people using natural gas instead of propane before. My fiance and I are about to start building our own...

recently asked by a local history group to do a demonstration on making glass. so far I have been working with morrette and with salvaged glass and...

Hi all... I thought it was time for another Show and tell thread... Here's a new one from a new series I'm developing based on the idea of "Crown...

DUH!! Why didn't I think of this before? I have been trying to improvise a mandrell rack for inside my kiln, being too cheap to just order one from...

Just curious. Has anyone tried to include glass seed beads in their work. I don't know if any are compatable.

I have this debate going with a friend and she says that certain designs should be copyrighted and I say they can't since most techniques are...

Just want to ask, is it always o.k. to begin a new show n tell thread?

Hi everyone, I recently ordered the 12 foot hose to go with my hothead so that I can attach it to a larger cylinder of Mapp gas. I couldn't...

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I know I have read about making icicles with a torch, but the archives don't come up with directions. Does anyone know how to make them or where I...

Hi this is just an update on recent shows. If you haven’t been listening lately you may have missed some of the interviews we have done. Here...

Hello, I was just perusing the show and tell thread, and can see that many of you take such wonderful photographs of your beads! I am...

Hello dear bead makers, this is my fist post! I love this forum. I am new at glass bead making (6 months), and I want to change my gas set up...

Browsing through the Neiman Marcus Christmas book the other day, I ran across some cute bracelets made of Murano gold foil beads...the same kind I...

Hi all, I checked in the archives and didn't really find any info so here tis' How do you prepare the twistie to coil over the base bead to...