Adding silver to beads
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
I’ve been experimenting with adding fine silver to my beads. Since I just love the turquoise and ivory combination (which also makes that nice little black line between the two main colors), the silver adds an interesting effect. This has taken a bit of practice though, and I still manage to burn up a lot of my silver wire before actually getting it onto the bead (I use 28 gauge fine silver that I purchase from MonsterSlayer) . Need to work high up in the cooler part of the flame, or at least turn the flame down a bit before adding the silver. Anyway, here are some of my recent efforts (there are also a few without silver).
