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| Cylindrical Beads within Transparent Outer Glass Beads |
For the last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with a new style of bead. It's sort of a bead within a bead.
First I made a cylindrical bead and then used the hollow bead technique over the top. This was quite successful and effective. The biggest difficulty is getting the bead even and preventing the transparent outer bead from collapsing onto the inner bead. Hopefully, it just needs plenty of practise.
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| Cylinder Base Beads |
I got really ambitious next, I decided to try and create a loose bead within a transparent outer bead. It took a good few sticks of clear glass in practise, as the beads continued to fuse together. On the ninth attempt I achieved it.
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| Tricky to see, but small orange bead within clear glass bead |
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| Unsuccessful Attempts |
In conclusion, although I quite like the loose bead within a bead, there's a few impracticalities with it. It's success rate at the moment being one and the difficulty in cleaning out the bead release being another. I may go back to it at a later date. However the original cylinder base bead definitely has possibilities. It's effective on it's own and definitely has scope to develop further.
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