mandrels with dot guides??

[Chelle]

I konw I saw on WC something about mandrels that made with, I guess you'd call them protruesions. In other works it was a regular mandrel that had little mandrels soldered to the side. You used the small mandrels to make sure you put your dots in the right place.

Since I have a vision problem, anything that would helf would be great.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Thanks!!
Mitchelle

[MikeAurelius]

You can do something similar, but using a sharpie black magic marker.

Make marks on opposite sides of the mandrel at the bottom of the bead release. This will give you marks 180 degrees apart, and the basis for most even numbered dots.

Adding two more dots on either side will give you 4, 4 dots on either side 6, and so on. This is how I teach my students to make evenly spaced dots.

[Chelle]

Thanks Mike. I will do it and see how it turns out. I'm sure much better than now, LOL!!