Wonky beads
What to do with wonky beads?
I still make my share of them, and don’t always want to throw them away. Usually I just try to dress them up somehow so that the indisputable weirdness isn’t as obvious. Here are some examples—-I always get compliments on these when I wear them and wonder if anyone (except for other lampworkers of course) notice the asymmetry?
Another thing I sometimes do is split the bead in half and melt the halves down in the kiln. Sometimes these turn out to be junk, but sometimes they can be made into nice little cabs.
August 27th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
sometimes a certain amount of wonkiness is ok!
makes the bead more interesting, and people think you did it on purpose…:)