Melon Press?

[Elizabeth Beads]

Does anyone know who sells one of these? It makes a bead like this:

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:d85qPnke9heT-M:http://www.bwsmigel.info/Lesson7/images.wl.7/Babylonian.lapis.jpg

[DesertDreamer]

You can do them freehand. All you need is any tool with an edge (dental spatula is my fave, but a palette knife or razor tool works fine, too). Heat up a line in your oval-shaped bead, line up your tool with the mandrel, and rock it quickly from hole to hole. Lather, rinse, repeat around the bead. ;)

[margriet@stainedglass.nl]

You could write an email to Maria Louisa from http://www.beadpress.nl
She likes new ideas for stamps.