possible new magatama happy dance
Mar. 8th, 2010 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat11381.) Finally managed to recontact the former supplier where these came from-- their website disappeared several years ago, but I tracked down an alternate email address-- which may mean that I can replenish my dwinding stash of little stone magatama in green chalcedony/moss-agate and white/black cloud agate. Hoping I can place a more targeted order this time... otherwise, I'll really need a way to bleed off the backlog of red, brown, orange, and yellow agate/carnelian/chalcedony-- which are all lovely in their own way, but which I'm still relatively drowning in. (Maybe just convert more of them into multi-magatama necklaces? Ook-- I like making them, but they don't have a great sellthrough rate.)
2.) Have been talking to a local glass artisan about the plausibility of custom art-glass magatama, which (if the test cuts go well) may mean tweakable proportions and specialized materials such as neodymium "alexandrite", uranium glass, and umpteen flavors of dichro. "w00t" does not even begin to cover the possibilities :D
3.) On a semi-related note, have also obtained some brass filigree to experiment with. I'm not really sure what to do with it yet-- the few rhinestones/cabochons I have seem too small to wrap the filigree around it as settings (note to self-- get some bigger dichro cabs from the glass studio!), and I don't have the proper mindset at the moment for designing with jumprings and cement/solder. Some of the filigree discs might make great armatures for attaching glass beads with wire, but I don't have much feel for that either.
2.) Have been talking to a local glass artisan about the plausibility of custom art-glass magatama, which (if the test cuts go well) may mean tweakable proportions and specialized materials such as neodymium "alexandrite", uranium glass, and umpteen flavors of dichro. "w00t" does not even begin to cover the possibilities :D
3.) On a semi-related note, have also obtained some brass filigree to experiment with. I'm not really sure what to do with it yet-- the few rhinestones/cabochons I have seem too small to wrap the filigree around it as settings (note to self-- get some bigger dichro cabs from the glass studio!), and I don't have the proper mindset at the moment for designing with jumprings and cement/solder. Some of the filigree discs might make great armatures for attaching glass beads with wire, but I don't have much feel for that either.