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Author: Glass_Masters, Contributing Editor
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| This will take many tries and much practice in the beginning, and each glass has a different speed. |
| You can speed up, slow down, or stop for just a second to help the glass sag into the position it needs to be. |
| After heating and turning, while the glass is still hot enough to move, but not hot enough to sag, you want to take your tweezers and just touch the two legs to the sides of the bead like you did before. |  | Do not stop and squeeze this time, but just put a very light pressure on the sides and spin the bead at the same time. |
| This will push the sides of the bead up and even them out. Go very gently on this. |
 | To check on how your bead shape is coming along, always look at your bead from two directions, the rifle sighting view and the side view, and spin the bead while you are looking. If you are uneven the spinning will show that. If in doubt, place your tweezers sideways on the mandrel an use them to sight over while spinning the bead. You will see the high and low spots going up and down behind the horizonprovided by the top of the tweezers. |
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