[Jewelry making - Article 00509] - [Orchid] [Enamel Bits] Getting your Lumps

[Karen Seymour-Ells]

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Hi all,

    I need to make some of my own lumps...I use them to do kind of a
    mosaic thing and I want to be able to control my colors rather
    than take the "Thompsons choice" assortment of lumps. 

    I have come up with two plans, anyone who has made lumps before
    or sees an obvious flaw to either please jump in! 

    1. Coat a clean piece of copper with a way too thick coat of the
    desired lump color..fire, press and then crunch up the resulting
    shard that ping off, maybe help them along with a hammer. 

    2. heat some of the enamel desired in a crucible until flowing,
    try to scoop out with steel tool onto my granite surface...let
    cool, take to it with a hammer. 

    The assumption is of course that I am graceful and careful in all
    these actions, use proper eye protection and gloves. 

    Any suggestions? 

Karen, Northern Illinois....currently recovering from a
trip to what they wrongly called a fine art fair
"Wyandotte" (any comments on that debacle would be
welcome as well)


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