One of the forums I frequent that is dedicated to beadmakers tends to get hostile. I've seen people tear other beadmakers apart for no particular reason other than they felt like it. And I have learned, over my time on the 'net that sometimes a "winky" just isn't enough.
Which is why, when I posted the other day about what really is a BASIC bit of lampworking knowledge I said as a preface "I am NOT being snarky here" so that readers wouldn't take my following comment the wrong way.
Well of COURSE someone had to get snarky right back and informed me that my comment WAS upsetting.
Well boo hoo. Can't you read?
The issue at hand was INCOMPATIBILITY of glasses and I couldn't see why someone would be surprised to find a bead they made with incompatible glasses would BREAK.
Now I'm all for experimenting. But when you KNOW that if you wish to use a 94 COE glass as DECORATION on a 104 COE base you need to use the least amount possible of the 94, then why on EARTH would you just keep jamming more and more of the 2 glasses into the same bead? General rule of thumb is to use 5-10% of the 94 COE (because this particular glass contains a LOT of lead which helps keep the two glasses, if not happy together, at least out of divorce court).
Pardon me for interjecting some SENSE into the discussion. And I have, once again, exiled myself from said forum. And I was just getting back into being part of the "community" after a long hiatus.
Maybe I should just STAY away permanently.
sigh
And JustBeads is dead. So I'm moving auctions back to ebay and praying for some movement. I cannot keep making stuff that just sits in boxes in the studio. (full pity party now) ... maybe I should just sell it all off and go find a job.
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