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Old 2006-12-04, 1:43pm
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sucks! At least.. I suck at it. I tried once and broke my reamer while trying to poke through the hot glass. How do I poke through it without breaking my reamer or destroying my bead? Can anyone give me some hints in the right direction, cause I can't figure it out!

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Old 2006-12-04, 1:46pm
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I've never heard of doing this with graphite. What I have heard is using tungsten.
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Old 2006-12-04, 1:55pm
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that could very well be the problem there..... roflol
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Old 2006-12-04, 2:00pm
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yep - could be... but hopefully someone else will chime in to either confirm or deny what I said.
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Old 2006-12-04, 5:44pm
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Ayup, tungsten for poking, graphite for smoothing the edge....at least that's how I do it
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Old 2006-12-04, 6:17pm
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I hadn't tried it yet but I had thought the same thing, that maybe you could make the hole with the graphite rod...I heard different here...
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Old 2006-12-04, 6:20pm
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I've also poked with a mandrel and it worked great.

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Old 2006-12-04, 11:50pm
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lol and here I was thinking I needed to poke with the graphite reamer... no wonder the poor thing broke, just not sturdy enough to go through hot glass. I will try a mandrell today since I gave away my tungsten poker to a friend of mine who turned out to be my worst enemy .. ahh well, I hope she enjoys the poker

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