can't help with pictures, but. gather a ball on the end of your source rod (15mil give or take) then let the ball cool, next heat up enough so you can shape the ball into a cone on your marvering pad. then heat the cone so it's glows and roll it in frit. then implode a bit, re-marver and repeat. once the cone is covered with frit evenly marver it smooth and apply a backing to protect the cone. you can even git it a little twist before hand if you wish. start at the top of the color on the cone and coil pot on your backing building it up so it's spherical. make sure to leave the tip of the cone exposed until your last application of glass on your backing, that way the marble will have depth but the end of the cone will be covered and have color behind it when you look through the marble. then shape the back, punty up and gather your lens on the front. shape the front and so on until it's round and smooth. use the light reflection on the marble to look for imperfections. once you're ready you could punty up really lightly polish of any marks and tap the punty off so the marble lands in your mold. go back and polish off the last punty mark which should be as small as possible and spin it in the mold to assure that it's round. hope this helps, when my cave is finished in a week or so i'll take pics if you're still wondering, but by then i'm sure someone else will chime in. good luck!
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