jus a question. vacs an valleys.

[BakerTheGlassMaker]

When making pin striped vac incasements do you buy your 4mm or pull your own stringers? Sure doesn't matter, jus curious how others are. Also anybody tryd this with 4mm micro rod for valleys. Dose it come out alright with 75 pulls? Thanks much

[BakerTheGlassMaker]

Oops for the typo. That's dicro not micro.

[Riley]

Any stacks are typically done with stock rod. For the stringers between you pull rod down. As for dichro stringers, it probably wouldn't have much sparkle. You'd be pulling it down to stringer, vac/stack, then pulling it down again. Probably have some dichro in there but it would be stretched way out.

My understanding is that dichro in a stack works best the Strobel method. Take flat strips of dichro inside a sleeve large enough to accommodate the rods under the flat strips. Eush gets down like that, and I believe there was a tutorial somewhere.

[Dan Kooper]

I have used a dichro rod In a stack. It was orange with a stripe or dichro down one side. It worked good. It was only two striped in the tube but it was sparkly.

[IsthmusColor]

The 4mm rods work well. Just don't cut your dicro strips to wide to fit into the sleeve. I buy odds and full the small diameter rods out to use for this especially.

[aREa541]

I have pulled quite a few tubes with GA 4mm but I prefer using 7mm. The 4mm lines are less defined when pulling down thin and wigging tight, they can tend to almost blur together in a twist. Also your spiral will be more "muddled" if you twist it enough. I would stay at 50mm and below if using 4mm to minimize that issue. It also sucks having such a limited color palette if using 4mm. I have pulled my own colors down, but that is a bitch on a large scale.

The good things are the obvious more lines, but also a higher clear to color ratio which is cheaper.