OCTOBER 2008



Larry Scott
Exercising (sic) The  Devil in the Details
What I do, how I do it, and why I do it that way - PART ONE
October 25 & 26, 2008     10am - 6pm     $475

Lunch provided

The class is for intermediate beadmakers and gutsy beginners. I concentrate on refining technique. The jokes are generally pretty good. www.larryscott.net


*Heat rises, gravity does not…
*Pulling perfect stringers - coated stringers, goldstone stringers, and silver coated stringers.
*Lines - end to end, rings, finishing the ends and joints.
*Latticino 1, 2, & 3 *Linear thin encasing
*Bubbles where you want, when you want - putting bubbles in, removing bubbles (and debris)
*Control of heat, heating only a small section of the bead, sectional heating.
*Moving dots and lines with gravity and friction.
*Dots
*Melting in dots and lines
*Casing dots – the Hershey’s Kiss
*Harlequin patterns – Patterns w/ 8, 6, and 4, divisions, diamonds and squares, big, little, blind dots.
*The puckered end
*Carving glass
*Whole gather casing
*Thoughts on silver
*Drawn tube beads on the torch