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Jewellery making
29 May 2008, 8:07 AM
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Laney
Joined 26 Aug 2007
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Hi, I have posted on here that I make glass lampwork beads - a very additive hobby! Now have hundreds of glass beads. I am not a jewellery designer and have had to do something with the things LOL! I now make necklaces, braclets and have even made a very funky ring! I buy alsorts of findings, silk cord etc., and spend hours knotting (I was a girl guide, one of the only badges I got!) and fiddling, anyone else make jewellery................and is anyone willing to share ideas, I am not very girly, being quite happy to slob around in jeans and paw prints - from the dogs, so do get stuck for ideas, thank god for a daughter!
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Jewellery making
13 July 2008, 8:05 PM
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carole
Joined 1 May 2008
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hi there just found your discussion..i bead..make jewellry and would love to learn how to make lampwork beads..how difficult is it and what do i need to do it\//
love carole
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Jewellery making
14 July 2008, 3:52 PM
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pottymoo
Joined 5 Jun 2008
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Hi me to I make jewellery and playing around with ideas, I also make cards and have sometimes used beads on those. How do you make these lamp beads, you've got me interested moo x
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Jewellery making
15 July 2008, 12:24 PM
 Edited by carole 15 July 2008, 12:25 PM
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carole
Joined 1 May 2008
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I do hope that laney replies then we may get a clas on making beads..lol
carole
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Jewellery making
15 July 2008, 1:54 PM
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Nobby
Joined 26 Feb 2007
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Hiya, i make lots of little friendship bracelets out of knotting embroidery silks. My girls give them to their friends, but i've seen them for sale around the markets and mine are made myself. They do take a while to do though, and its a b*gger when you do a wrong knot!! lol
Laney, why dont you buy some drop earrings and put some of your beads on those? Sell them at markets/online etc?
Do you have any pics of them so we can see your handiwork?!
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Jewellery making
15 July 2008, 2:09 PM
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Laney
Joined 26 Aug 2007
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hi, I don't know if you are allowed to do this on preloved, but I have some of my beads on e-bay, here is the code/item number for one of them 290245881209, from there you could see the other ones. I don't have any pictures of made up jewellery, some is in a craft shop in Bromsgrove - Stoke Prior Craft Centre if anyone is nearby!, but I will hopefully be putting some on e-bay soon, having to do nothing at the moment as I had a operation last week.......am getting totally bored! Can't sit at the torch, nothing, bored, bored bored....bored! I love making the beads, and have made some jewellery which I have sold at craft fairs (only done two this year! craft fairs that is!)
Making glass beads is huge fun and very additive. Using a duel torch, propane and oxygen mix, I melt the glass rods around steel mandrels and poke, prod, sculpt and play.......very additive! I also make animal beads, dragons, dogs, cats etc., Then anneal the beads/sculptures in the kiln over night.
Nobby, I did get a book, Chinese Knotting, and have made some fantastic silk cord jewellery pieces using these knots with the beads, become a bit of an anorak! I have spent ages perfecting a knot, and now an expert knot 'un-doer'!!
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Jewellery making
15 July 2008, 7:26 PM
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carole
Joined 1 May 2008
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they are lovely...i have got the shop added to my favourites at the moment..as i cant sit too long at the computer at the moment as i have 3 collap[sed discs and am in great pain today..
carole
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Jewellery making
16 July 2008, 9:20 AM
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Laney
Joined 26 Aug 2007
757 posts
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hi carole, sorry to hear about your back, ouch! my op was my tum, so same problem, not comfortable doing anything in one position for very long hence no torching!
Thanks for liking - and looking at my beads, hopefully I will be putting my animals, dragons etc., on this week, hubby has been really kind and doing it for me, hope you like those too!
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Jewellery making
16 July 2008, 5:39 PM
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carole
Joined 1 May 2008
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the equipment you need to make the beads , is it expensive???does it take up a lot of room??
do you ever make the silver lined beads??
i want to solder my jump rings on my charm bracelet and necklaces....can you tell me the best and cheapest places to buy these items..
carole
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Jewellery making
17 July 2008, 9:26 AM
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Laney
Joined 26 Aug 2007
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Hi, yes the equipment isn't cheap! For a start, a shed/studio/garage is really a must. You can do it in the house, but you are playing with fire, literally, propane tanks and oxygen, really combustable stuff. I am lucky I have a purpose built studio, prior to glass I was an artist anyway, working as a pet portrait artist, still do some!, even though, I now have a fire extinguisher and fire blanket, plus the carbon monoxide detector as the fumes can kill. Really that is the cheap bit. You need the torch, flame retardant desk - mine has stainless steel on it and of course the front of the flame/on the wall has to be flame retardant too. Then the kiln, you can't sell your beads until they have been annealled as they would just fall apart eventually, annealling them removes the stress in the glass and makes them more durable. Then the tools, which are not expensive, until you start collecting more and more, most of the good ones you have to get from America. There are only about 100 glass bead makers in this country. The art has been around for centuries, but is only finding popularity here, now. The glass rods are fairly cheap, but again, you start collecting. If you want to check out prices, Tuffnells.co.uk are one of the best UK suppliers and he really is a nice man to ask anything. I would highly recommend a course. I was lucky, my sister in law works with dichroic glass and found a bead course near me, so I just tagged along and became hooked, but it isn't as easy as someone who has been doing it a while, makes it look! But it is huge fun!
I don't make silver lined beads, yet. Its a long process with the dapping tools - you tube is an excellent place for tutorials, check out their lampworking ones, sometimes called flameworking - but I am looking into getting some silver and having a go. You need fairly big mandrels to make the hole big enough to begin with - the stainless steel rods you make the beads on - then the silver is getting more expensive than it was last year.
As for soldering jump rings. You can do this with the torch for bead making - another you tube tut, I think! - but a trick with jump rings is to gently move the ends, one at a time, back and forth connecting them in the middle everytime, you will find that they stiffen. As for best places to buy, I am still finding mine too. Ebay is a good starting place, I have brought findings from the states which have been very good. I prefer not to use precious metals, mainly because of cost, and I only want to make the flamboyant costume jewellery anyway. Would love to see some pictures of your jewellery.
Hope this helps
Laney
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Jewellery making
18 July 2008, 1:29 PM
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carole
Joined 1 May 2008
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oh my god...i am tyotally in awe now...
i didnt realize how complicated it was to make a bead...I do moan sometimes at the price but!!!!!!!!hats off to you ...
i would love ot do a course...but i dont think i have the money to set that all up..I had a scrapbooking business for years and i taught classes and workshops..i also ran my own ribbon business which i sild a year ago as we where moving to spain..
i am looking for things to do when we finally move...
i do a variety of crafts card making, scrapbooking, sewing, knitting, painting, drawing, nothing amazing but all things i can do , pick up and put down,
carole
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