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'R&D' Bullseye Flameworked Murrine Mix

'R&D' Bullseye Flameworked Murrine Mix

£12.60 GBP
£12.60 GBP
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Making flamework murrine canes takes a lot of trial and error. I usually end up making a cane three or four times, tweaking colors until the final fused chip looks how I want it. The ones that don’t make the cut aren’t really "bad"; they just don’t quite fit with the rest of the mix, reacted more than I expected, or didn’t have the visual balance of colours I was going for.
That said, I’ve had visitors in my workshop get genuinely offended at how many “extra” canes I had lying around. They loved the designs and thought I was being ridiculous for not selling them. So, I’ve decided to start an "R&D" mix with every release—basically, a grab bag of these experimental canes at a slightly lower price than my signature mixes, since they’re a little less polished but still totally usable.

So that's what this is!  The canes I've made where I'm exploring colour combinations, or trying to tweak a design, or simply forget to twist a cane that's supposed to be a twist (it happens...).  They're slightly cheaper, to account for the fact that sometimes the design isn't as 'polished' as my signature mixes.

What you get:

15g+ of usable chips in a biodegradable glassine bag. Every chip will be between 5 and 7.5mm and will show the designs pictured when fused (first picture). You will NOT get chips with minimal/no design, teeny tiny, or super wonky chips.  Chips will be a random mix of the eight designs.

The chips are made from Bullseye glass, constructed and pulled by hand in a lampworking flame (not in a vitrigraph kiln) by me in my workshop. The chips are designed to be taken to a full fuse, and vary in size between 5 and 7.5mm diameter and 3-6mm high. They can be used on top of two sheets of 3mm fusing glass to add that special something to your fused glass pieces. They work really well when used as eyes or flowers, or baubles on a tree at christmas, for example.  I design my chips to look best when fused flat, to really bring out the outer starburst patterns that complement the colours in the centre.

A Note on Compatibility:

Compatibility is especially important when incorporating flameworked elements into kiln-formed glass. Flameworking exposes glass to higher temperatures than typical kiln forming, which can sometimes affect its compatibility. I take this seriously and test every item I sell for glass fusing using the polarized film test.

Chips are tested for compatibility after being fired to a full fuse over two layers of 3mm sheet glass, followed by an average slump schedule.   I have been selling flameworked murrine for almost a decade now and I have never had a customer highlighting any compatibility issues.  That said, if you plan to use the murrini differently — such as on thicker glass (with longer anneal times), with multiple full fuses, or higher temperatures e.g. squishing or drop-outs — I suggest conducting your own compatibility tests.  I am not responsible for compatibility issues arising from firing methods beyond those I have tested for.

Colour representation:

I have the chips and fused samples next to my computer when I edit the images and try as far as possible to get the colours correct as the chips look.  However, different computers and monitors may represent colours differently and so the chips may look a slightly different colour on your monitor than mine.

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