Basket illusion question

[Gary Beasley]

For those of you doing it and have a Colwood burner, the closest thing to a bead tip I can find listed is called a fish scale tip. Is this what you use?

 

[john lucas]

contact Harvey Meyer. He is the expert on this.

 

[GRJensen]

Not for everybody, but I made my own with some Nichrome wire, silver solder, and one of Colwood's tip holders.

 

[Peter White]

RazerTip make tips to suit D-Ways beading tools.

 

[Bill Boehme]

I'm not familiar with the Colwood beading tip, but I was involved in a discussion that Harvey Meyer started on WoW when Detail Master was going out of business and there was a search for a suitable substitute. Razertip made a BeadMaker pen, but it wasn't satisfactory at all. Fortunately Harvey was able to talk Pat at PJL Enterprises (Optima) into making a custom design. The design was fine tuned to perfectly match the D-Way beading tool and Harvey gave it his seal of approval. The Optima beading pens work very well ... maybe even better than the Detail Master beading pens.

 

[Tim Connell]

I use the basket illusion tip from PJL Enterprises. http://www.carvertools.com

It was made specifically to match the beads made by D-way beading tools. It was recommended by several in a previous thread. I don't know for sure, but would think that pen could be made to work with other burner units (maybe with an adapter). Give him a call and he will let you know what would be needed to use that pen.

Edit: Bill posted while I was typing, I'm a slow typist on a tablet!

 

[Bill Boehme]

I use the basket illusion tip from PJL Enterprises. http://www.carvertools.com

It was made specifically to match the beads made by D-way beading tools. It was recommended by several in a previous thread. I don't know for sure, but would think that pen could be made to work with other burner units (maybe with an adapter). Give him a call and he will let you know what would be needed to use that pen.

Edit: Bill posted while I was typing, I'm a slow typist on a tablet!

You can use the Optima pens with most burners. Optima can supply you with the right patch cord to go from the pen to the burner.

 

[john lucas]

All you need is RCA female.to.female adaptor I think. I'm a long way from my shop. It could be male to Male but they are easy to find online.

 

[John Torchick]

contact Harvey Meyer. He is the expert on this.

Definitely the expert. He also has a PhD in patience.

 

[Bill Boehme]

All you need is RCA female.to.female adaptor I think. I'm a long way from my shop. It could be male to Male but they are easy to find online.

For the Colwood burner I believe you would need just an Optima 16 gauge heavy duty patch cord with a male RCA phono plug on each end because the pen body has a female RCA phono connector and I believe that the Colwood burner has an RCA phono jack on its front panel.

 

[Curt Fuller]

I'm not familiar with the Colwood beading tip, but I was involved in a discussion that Harvey Meyer started on WoW when Detail Master was going out of business and there was a search for a suitable substitute. Razertip made a BeadMaker pen, but it wasn't satisfactory at all. Fortunately Harvey was able to talk Pat at PJL Enterprises (Optima) into making a custom design. The design was fine tuned to perfectly match the D-Way beading tool and Harvey gave it his seal of approval. The Optima beading pens work very well ... maybe even better than the Detail Master beading pens.

I agree with Bill and all the others that use the PJL pens. All of the pens I've gotten from him seem to be a notch better than other makes.

 

[Gary Beasley]

Thank you for the info, gives me a direction to research.