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For Christmas this year my DH got a 10amp rectifier for me, and a 1000cc pyrex beaker with a nice long handle. I couldn't wait to play!!! However, I needed to gather together the rest of the materials...

As soon as the rest of the materials, solutions, paint, etc, are all gathered nicely together I'm still too darn tired after getting out of the patient side of the hospital to do anything interesting, so everything just sits there on the shelf looking at me and making faces.

At last!! I can do it!! So what if I'm on call... it could take awhile for one bead, right??? Right?? Like 18 hours or something???

Of course my husband won't let me set up in the house, or my studio, or his garage... so I'm in the tool shed. I pull out my tutorial that I printed from an article by Kate Fowle Meleney, hook everything up, get the bath set up, and THEN realize that the line where she mentions the amperage had gotten cut off.

Hmm. I'm new at this, exhausted from call, and NOT thinking clearly if at all. I think to myself "Hmm. Kate recommends a 10 amp rectifier. So did Tink. There must have been a reason for that."

Yep. I did. I cranked it. ALL the way up. 10 amps.

Well, I took a nap, then figured that I'd just go check and see what wasn't happening - because what could possibly have happened in an hour and a half, hmm???

Uh, um, well.... a whole lot.

For starters I turned OFF the rectifier. Let's see... The copper plates were lying on the bottom of the beaker, the wires that they HAD been hanging from were whittled down to little bitty points, and there was so much vegitation on that bead it looked like someone had stuck a tree in tidy-bowl leaves first!!!

After cleaning up my mess, making sure that the rectifier was working fine, and hanging my THING out to dry, I went back to the web article...

So maybe the amps were a little high...

1amp. I was supposed to start at 1amp!!!

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First Attempt

Here's what's left of the first attempt - most of the copper fell off - it was about three inches long so I sprayed Polyurethane on the rest....

Next time I'll use 1amp instead of 10!!

DEFINITELY a learning experience!!! LOL
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Second Attempt

Ok! I know - the amperage is supposed to be set somewhere between 0.1 and 1.0 amp, but I had such an, um, interesting outcome on my first attempt at (ahem) 10 amps that I just wanted to see what 5 amps would look like before my copper plates ate through....

So I took anothe broken bead, painted some very un-artistic looking squiggly lines on it (Have to work on that part) and sank it....

Very different texture this time, although some of the tree-like growth was starting to appear in places.
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Artist: Ironmoutain01

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Iron Mountain Jewelry is a one person glass studio in sunny (sweltering) Bulverde, TX, in the hillcountry just north of San Antonio. I'm a self-taught lampworker who works full-time in an Interventional Radiology Lab and only get to play with hot, moulten glass when I've been good. Or when I can run fast enough to get away from my department. I've been playing with glass now for about 20 months, but if you add up the actual time, it's more like 8 or 9. I WANT SOME MORE!!!!!!

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Ya know,
It's really cool! I wonder what it would have looked like if you had slept another hour ;-)

Jayne
» Posted by BadgerBeads on 2/3/2008 12:38:50 PM.

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