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Summary: Learn about kilning for glass beads in this free video series that will show you how to make these decorative beads that are perfect for homemade jewelry.

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Tom Wright Tom Wright is the owner of "Ginger Bread Glass" and has worked in the warehouse of Delphi Glass. He has over two years of professional experience in fashionin... read more

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Learn About Kilning for Glass Beads

O.k., well now that your bead is in the kilning, you need to let it cool off and cool down. So, basically I just put it in there. I shut my kilning off and I'm just going to let the kilning and my bead slowly drop down to. You don't want to take it out of the kilning before it's under at least like five hundred. I mean obviously, you can't handle it with your hands but it won't, usually it shouldn't crack under like five hundred. We leave it in there so all of the molecules can come together and it won't crack. So basically, yeah you just got to leave it in there. Don't take it out, yeah I know you want to. I know you want to continue working on it and get it done but it just takes patience. Alright, so the next step is you're going to want to take your bead off of your mandrel. Sometimes it might be a pain in the butt, but usually it's not. We're just going to use this for demonstration purposes. It would be on there. You can either make it off that way or pull off that way, whatever. So we're going to take it to, basically, we're going to try to get that bead release off which you don't want in there because it's junkie. So, we're going to dip it in some H2O. Dip it in some water. I'm going to put my drill bit on the drill here. Now we got the bill or bit on there. Turn it on. Basically, you're just going to drill it off of there. It's really key that you want to keep this stuff wet because the particles that'll like fly up in the air you don't want to breathe. But, if you get them wet the particles obviously will just be wet and they won't get into the air or into your lungs. You can see it grinding down to a little bit of a paste.

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