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Originally Posted by ginko
Thank you for that. I think that I am mashing with the tool, which is giving me ragged bead holes by pushing glass into the slot of the tool. Must be more gentle.
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I really do hope it helps! I guess a few people were having that problem. I suppose it's somewhat ingrained to automatically want to use them like regular mashers. We're so used to using making beads then mashing them with mashers that mash on a horizontal plane with the mandrel that it seems like the way to go. But with these, since they work on a plane that's perpendicular with the mandrel, doing a big mash doesn't really work.
Of course, there may be a million different ways of doing this...I've just found that the gentle method works best for me.