Marble Seconds

These are the Seconds: marbles not ugly enough to smash for frit, but not good enough to make me happy. They appear here partly as cautionary tales, and partly as examples of some interesting idea or technique that didn't quite work out but would be worth trying again. Except as noted otherwise, all these marbles are around 1 inch in diameter, give or take an eighth.

If you click to see the detail, you'll find notes on what makes each of these marbles a Second (i.e. what went wrong and whether I think I could avoid the problem(s) next time). I hope this may save a fellow novice marble maker from just a little bit of grief...

Psycho Pheasant	Psycho Pheasant 2	Psycho Pole	Polka Dots	Messy Pole
Reducing Turquoise	Veins lumpy	Clumsy Rake	Little .75in Shroom	Shroom 2 (bubbles!)
Big 1.25in Kahuna!	Smoked Swirl	Angry Eye	Raked MOP	Smoked Confetti
Confetti 2	Curlicues	Uuuugly! but . . .	Redeeming Spirals	Clumsy Rake
Tiny .5in Spiral	Green Sparkle	BnW Rake (oblate)	Yellow and Black