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Title: Boysenberry Gray
Artist: *AJGlass
Image created by: AJGlass using an Epson Perfection 1200U scanner and PhotoShop.
Medium: Glass
Type: Soft Glass (this means it’s not borosilicate)
Description: Glass Bead

Details: The dime is provided for scale of the glass bead. Black and gray colored glasses were used to create this bead. All *AJGlass beads have been properly annealed. Due to the differences in monitor settings, the colors of this bead may look slightly lighter, slightly darker, or otherwise different on your monitor than the bead itself. If this bead looks red, green, or blue on your monitor then it’s probably time to get a new monitor. The bright white lines on this bead are light reflections. The dime is not for sale because it’s my lucky dime.

Status: Sold.
Item: One handmade, bone-shaped, squashed-dotted gray and black glass bead.
Price: $20.00 + $4 S&H (or $5 S&H outside of the continental United States).
Contact: Please note me if you are interested in purchasing this unique bead.
Payment: PayPal. Other payment options may also be accepted. Note me!
Shipping: I ship beads via US Post in protective packaging suitable for glass beads.

Delivery: Please allow one week for delivery, longer for international orders. Weather permitting, I try and ship the following business day after payment has been received and cleared. Beads will be shipped with delivery confirmation when possible and the purchaser will be provided with the package’s shipping/tracking number so that he or she can track (via the US Post Office website) where their package is at any particular time during transit.

Discussion: Rarely is black glass really black. The Moretti/Effetre black glass (used in the bead above) just so happens to be a very dark purple. When applied as dots, the black glass appears to be black. When swirled into other colors, such as the gray color of the bead in the above image, the purple color of the black glass is clearly evident. Not all black glasses are dark purple – some are dark gray, dark blue, or a very dark brown. One of the darkest of all black glasses (currently available in rod form) is Intense Black. Yet it too is still not completely black. When pulled into a thin stringer or mixed into bright white glass, its true color can be seen. I have yet to use CiM’s Hades Messy Color black glass, but if all of the other black glass colors are any indication, it is likely that Hades will also be some color other than true black.

The three glass dots on the above bead are fused permanently onto the glass bone-shaped body. Please understand that this bead is created entirely from glass, and like all glass it can chip or break if dropped/thrown/crushed or otherwise abused. This bead is NOT suitable for small children. It may pose a choking hazard if swallowed. Injury could result from the use of this glass bead as a sexual aid, so using it as such is strongly discouraged.

Creation: The bone shape of this bead was created in a similar fashion to how my other bone-shaped beads ( Stretch, How Bizarre, and Sudsy Purple Bone ) were created. What makes this bead different is that I didn’t swirl the black glass into the gray glass as much as I did when creating my Stretch bead. Also, instead of keeping the large dots round like in my How Bizarre bead, I carefully squashed them with the rounded handle of a tungsten pick while they were still molten.

Further comment: The black squashed dots on this bead remind me of small black tube rafts that I’ve seen people ride in when they’re going down rivers. I’ve thought of making a similar bead to this one out of either clear glass or transparent blue glass and then adding similar squashed black dots. Perhaps though, I’d poke the dots in the middle after squashing them to give the dots even more of a rafting tube-like look. The final clear/transparent blue and black dotted glass bead could look like a bunch of tubing rafts riding down a watery bone.

I might even be able to add some rapids to the clear/transparent blue bone body by boiling the glass in the flame a bit. I might also be able to add some rocks to the rapids by using some brown or gray glass randomly dribbled amongst the boil-created bubbles. This is just something that I’ve been thinking about when looking at this bead – which now that I think about it even further, is probably just one single step in my creative process. A single step that’s for sale of course.

Please note me if you are interested in purchasing this interesting glass bead. Normally I’d say “beautiful glass bead” but honestly, with its bizarre shape and coloration, this bead is really going to have to find a person with a unique fashion sense to love it.

  

Guarantee: I will do everything that I can to make sure that you are satisfied with your purchase. So if you are not satisfied with this bead for any reason, please return it prepaid in its original condition and in its original packaging for a full refund. Shipping costs are the responsibility of the purchaser. Please request return authorization in advance.

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