Double Helix Thallo, one of my favorite Double Helix reduction glasses. I know it is not everyone's favourite, but it works well for me. Here, you can also see it in comparison to the Elpis that I showed you a few days ago. Thallo, in the unworked rod, is a deep transparent emerald green. You can also see here that it complements the Elpis and the Geneva beautifully.
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Double Helix Elpis and TAG Geneva. Elpis is a light transparent Peridot color that reduces to a golden luster with rainbow accents. Geneva is a medium transparent blue that appears as a greenish glass with a rich blue lustre after reducing.
I am having a lot more success with retaining The Luster's from reduction on the glass after I reduced the annealing temperature in my kiln. I think my thermometer/pyrometer on the Kiln is reading a little high. I reduce the temperature by 10° (at a time) from the annealing temperature of 960 which is where I generally keep it for the Lauchas that I use, until it is now garaging around 875. That's a big difference. But I'm not having any issues with cracking, so I am just assuming that the pyrometer is reading a different temperature from actual. I actually tried another to check the temperatures but it wasn't working either, so at some point I'll get another but for now it's fine.
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Double Helix Oracle Opal over dichroic. I have say, the opal went a little more opaque than I anticipated, I expected it to be more like CiM Cirrus. I am not unhappy with it though. I will just use it differently going forward. You can see from the photos that it changes a bit depending on whether the light is in front of it or behind it. The rods are nearly clear before working, and it goes into the kiln clear, and then opacifies in the kiln. 🙂🙂🙂
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RX-783, from #doublehelixglass This is a technical glass that comes as a transparent mid-sapphire blue, and goes transparent purple as you work it, leaving some streaking of the blue, depending on how you work it.
Some of the beads are a core of Zephyr, some are encased with Zephyr.
Very, very pretty.
