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This marble is made with 24k gold, .999 silver and simex clear.

I’m a sculptor with very limited bead making experience. As in I technically know how to do it and have access to a setup but am fully a novice. I recently purchased these antique knobs in Japan for a project. They seem to just be lampworked glass directly on a threaded rod. I had no idea this was possible and it would be INCREDIBLY helpful to my process if I could make these instead of hunting for them. The largest of them is like 15mm

Any ideas what type of glass this would need to be? Do we think they’re just standard bolts? Is it really as simple as it looks? I have access to marble forms and a wide range of tools via my makerspace.

Trying to push myself outside of my production mode by creating breed specific kitties.

It's boro. The rod is orange but strikes blue red and purple. I'm looking for the color name and who makes it.

I definitely need a finer tip torch. But I got this pearlescent stringer bundle from glacialart. My propane torch is enough to melt it.

I know this looks terrible. Burning it here and there, my tweezers leaving residue, global everywhere, patchwork repairs in 2 places and many other mistakes I'm sure.

Any advice? Please don't be harsh but be truthful, thank you!

Newest additions. As you can see, exotics and double amber purple are my go tos 😂 I know my punty marks could be worked out better and my implosions could be a little neater (including the haze on the double amber) but is there anything else sticking out terribly? My parents are both glassblowers so I get advice from them but always nice to see it from other eyes!

I spent today's torch time making dichroic marbles for the summer show season. Now on to other things.

29.5mm fume line work marble by Phase Glass

Finally getting the kobuki method down, just have to try new patterns 😎😎😎. Thank you for your guys help w/ flame chemistry, Im still boiling my whites cuz i forget to be patient🥲. But I was finally able to use Amazon Lagoon and some Eclipse without them greying out super hard(not in photos)

Been working this out over the last year, finally happy with results. I’m calling it my ombré tech, basically do a dotstack then sock flip it. Pretty fun. You can find me on ig under HotDotBot for more, hopefully some fun collabs coming out soon

Enjoying making these rigs.
2 hole perk
10/90 joint

Made some eyes again..mostly turned into pendants..first photo here, more coming..

Take two of my ombré hammers, did a little rainbow mash up with some golden gate tubing. As always find me on Ig as HotDotBot
Thanks for looking