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2006-12-17, 2:19pm
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Inset eyes
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I have seen some gorgeous sculptural beads around that have inset eyes like they have been poked.
I have tried this myself but just keep getting a mushed mess.
Any advice?
Thanks
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2006-12-17, 2:36pm
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Are you talking about something like an encased bubble?
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2006-12-17, 2:41pm
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no
I shall try and find a picture
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2006-12-17, 2:45pm
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2006-12-17, 3:25pm
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Ah ha! While I've not made eyes like that, it appears that they have spot-heated the area for the eye and poked it, similarly as making an encased bubble, and then with a skinny stringer, placed a dot of black down in the "hole". Make sense?
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2006-12-17, 4:47pm
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what I do to make that kind of eye is lightly pre-poke with my tweezers and then spot heat and insert the stringer into the hole. It's the same principal as when you poke and twist without the twist. When it cools, wiggle it and it will break. When you lightly heat it back up, it will smooth the little piece you left in the hole.
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2006-12-17, 5:16pm
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Actually, it's easier to do this if you have a blunt poker instead of a sharp poker. That way you have a bottom to the hole to place your place stringer dot on and let it melt out to the sides of the hole. If you just put a stringer in a sharp poked hole, it tends to bleed out around the edges instead of staying at the bottom of the hole. Hope this make sense.
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2006-12-17, 5:26pm
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I agree - the tweezers I use leave a "bottom" on to which I put the stringer.
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2006-12-17, 9:40pm
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Take a short stringer of black, not too thin but not too thick, and make sure the end is cut, not melted off.
Tighten up your flame so you can heat a small, localized spot.
Spot heat your base bead, right where you want the eye to be - it works best on a soft glass like ivory or white - and poke the black stringer deep into the middle of where you spot heated the base glass.
Hold the black stringer still while the base firms up. You can blow on it to speed the process up.
Break the black stringer off by just snapping it off. One quick motion works best.
Repeat for the next eye.
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2006-12-18, 5:01am
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Originally Posted by loribeads
Take a short stringer of black, not too thin but not too thick, and make sure the end is cut, not melted off.
Tighten up your flame so you can heat a small, localized spot.
Spot heat your base bead, right where you want the eye to be - it works best on a soft glass like ivory or white - and poke the black stringer deep into the middle of where you spot heated the base glass.
Hold the black stringer still while the base firms up. You can blow on it to speed the process up.
Break the black stringer off by just snapping it off. One quick motion works best.
Repeat for the next eye.
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Cool, Lori - all in one step.
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2006-12-18, 6:21am
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Yep, what Lori said! 
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2006-12-18, 9:08am
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yep - the one step way is great, if you can get them even. I do the tweezers indentation so my eyes are even  Otherwise they have one eye up on the side of the head!
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2006-12-21, 3:21pm
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he he he thanks guys
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2006-12-21, 9:46pm
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I use a tungsten pick to poke the hole. I lift up slightly for a subtle brow. I have another thin tungsten pick that I have heated and bent the tip into a tiny fish hook shape, very small, just enough to catch glass. I use it to rake the eye opening slightly left and right to make it more eye-like.
I take a thin hot stringer and poke it into the slightly heated hole, break it off and melt it into a ball. If you have the right amount of glass is will ball up into the opening and be the right size.
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2006-12-22, 7:02am
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I use a variety of brass punches, dif sizes to create the indentation and then add the black stringer, cut on the end. You have to be careful about timing, if you're not,you'll end up melting it in
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