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May. 24th, 2010 07:48 pmPicked up the beads from lesson #3-- they're actually semi-symmetrical this time, yay! I should probably snap some pix of the progression, but at the moment I can't find the USB cable for my camera; I should probably finish the necklace I've been thrashing out for the past few days anyway. I don't know why this particular necklace is being such a total pain in the butt-- I keep spacing out about maintaining the symmetry of the centerpiece region.
The instructor was kind enough to make two beads for me from the Bullseye "rhubarb" shift-tint glass that I bought from eBay and brought in to class. It's fairly similar to Swarovski's "cantaloupe": green in fluorescent light, red in incandescent, sorta grey in daylight. Not very exciting by itself, but it's kinda the principle of the thing.
Have gone ahead and ordered a few rods of Bullseye "cranberry sapphirine" to check its immediate visual resemblance to the (imho not very exciting) "saphiret" rhinestones that I finally got hold of-- perhaps these particular saphirets are some of the later dilute stones, vs. the old Victorian stones that initially attracted a huge following. I also have some rods from a Bullseye odd lot of "gold sapphirine", which might be better victims to bring in next time for more hands-on info about color-striking.
The instructor was kind enough to make two beads for me from the Bullseye "rhubarb" shift-tint glass that I bought from eBay and brought in to class. It's fairly similar to Swarovski's "cantaloupe": green in fluorescent light, red in incandescent, sorta grey in daylight. Not very exciting by itself, but it's kinda the principle of the thing.
Have gone ahead and ordered a few rods of Bullseye "cranberry sapphirine" to check its immediate visual resemblance to the (imho not very exciting) "saphiret" rhinestones that I finally got hold of-- perhaps these particular saphirets are some of the later dilute stones, vs. the old Victorian stones that initially attracted a huge following. I also have some rods from a Bullseye odd lot of "gold sapphirine", which might be better victims to bring in next time for more hands-on info about color-striking.