Dark Silver Plum
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Hier ein paar Hinweise von Amber aus dem Lampwork etc. Forum zur Verarbeitung von Dark Silver Plum:
Carla - Try annealing at a lower temp. Dark Silver Plum *is* silver glass so it can't ramp up to the normal 960 and keep color - just like Terra or others. I anneal mine around 920 and keep the purples. Laurie at LLDesigns tried this and it worked for her, too.
Also, you have to work DSP cool in the first place. If it gets too hot and goes silver, you've lost some of the metals needed to produce color.
Try this... make a rough spacer. Do not heat it up enough to completely round it out - leave ridges. Take it out of the flame, let it cool, then reheat the surface of the bead until you see a film form. You'll know when you see it. KEEP THIS FILM INTACT. Never reheat the bead to molten after this step. Just keep heating the surface, cooling, heating, cooling... the color progression goes from gold, to bronze, to magenta, to teal and then it stops. Once you see some teal, STOP! After teal, it goes silver and you've burnt off the metals. Keep practicing on small spacers and then work up to larger focals. I have found if i have to marver anything, I lose all the color progression I got.
For shards, I work the focals maybe a total of two to three minutes after they are on the bead. I heat the ends to a glow, hit the middle a little bit and straight into the kiln they go.
