tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673138086470040022024-02-20T07:52:51.641-08:00Manuela Wutschke - Lampwork TutorialsManuelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05480972006119421596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67313808647004002.post-17141189726996069132011-10-27T10:26:00.000-07:002011-10-27T10:26:58.852-07:00Seashell TutorialPublished in the Flow Magazine Vol. III Issue 4 - 2nd Annual Woman in Glass, 2006<br />
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You need a Hollow Mandrel with a hole on the side for blowing up the seashell. <br />
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1. Wind a very small cylindrical bead onto your hollow mandrel and let it cool a bit. Then start to build a cone shaped hollow bead. Don´t superheat the end, you don´t want to loose your puckered end.<br />
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2. For a more realistic look add here and there a spiral wrap of a thin stringer of Black Dense<br />
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3. Notice the cup shape with some random layers of Black. You have to put each layer slightly inside the last one and to have a good finish make a very small bead where you want to have the final size. <br />
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4. Add more glass on your cup till it meets the small bead. Heat the bead and slowly rotate the mandrel. Put a gentle puff of air into the mandrel keeping the mandrel rotating till you are pleased with the shape <br />
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5. You can decorate the shell with dots or twistied cane. I put some Cubic Zirkonia´s and covered them with a clear dot.<br />
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6. Melt all your decoration in, keeping the shape of the shell.<br />
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<div> Take your sculpting tool, heat the end of the shell and make some intendentions while you rotate the mandrel.</div><div></div><a class="image" href="http://perlenwiki.de/index.php/Datei:P-mala-muschel09.jpg"><img alt="P-mala-muschel09.jpg" height="239" src="http://perlenwiki.de/images/7/77/P-mala-muschel09.jpg" width="239" /></a><br />
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7. Now spot heat only that part of the shell you want to open it<br />
Take it out of the flame and blow into the tube of your mandrel. You will blow up a big bubble of<br />
thin glass.<br />
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Melt that bubble carefully in. <br />
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8. If you don´t have enough glass for distinctive lips you can add at at this point some more glass arround the edge.<br />
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<div>9. I use my flaring tool to make one big intendation at the lower side of the shell and push the glass inside.</div><div>Preheat one side of the lips and shape it with any sculpting tool you like.</div><div>Preheat the other side and make some waves with the tweezers. </div><br />
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10. To achieve a shiny look I use to fume the Ivory shell with pure Silver first.<br />
Let it cool a bit and then spot fume it with Gold. I use to fume it inside for some Pink shades. <br />
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11. That´s it! Heat it up and put it into the kiln.Hope you had fun ♥♥♥<br />
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