Where can I buy fibre blanket for annealing beads in the UK?
Debbie S asked:
Hi
I want to start making lampwork beads, I have started to buy the equipment but I cannot afford an annealing kiln so I want to use a blanket, but none of the webites seem to sell this in the UK. So if anyone has any ideas I would be grateful.
December 6th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
If understand the question right, do you need to delay cooling ? if so you could try a bath of vermiculite used to use it when hardfacing with an alloy called Stellite to keep it softer for use in manufacture of rolling mill rollers
December 10th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Try who have kiln supplies and who have a ceramic fibre cloth which may be what you need. They also have vermiculite which you can plunge beads in to cool.
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who may be able to point you in the right direction.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Are you a member of the Bead Society of Great Britain yet? You might be able to get links to useful sites through them, and also links to other lampworkers.