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To drill or pre-pierce?
What are the reasons one would drill a bead after baking instead of piercing
it while soft? How do you drill a squirming, rolling bead, (i.e. what drill, how do you keep it still, etc?) Many thanks from a real newbie! |
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Some beads, like lentils, deform easily if you try to pierce them before
baking. It can be done, but it's not easy. There is a new bead roller out by polytools that allows you to pierce the bead while it is still in the roller, eliminating problems with fingerprints, etc. A nice innovation, imo. Barb |
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I drill after baking if I'm worried about deforming the shape,
especially on smaller beads; and I use a hand-held pin vise. You can get them with multiple sizes of drill bits. I'll make an indentation on the bead before baking so I know where to start drilling. It only takes a minute or two. The downside, for me anyway, is I've also broken beads that way (happened more often with Sculpey than with Premo). Cheers, Carla wrote: What are the reasons one would drill a bead after baking instead of piercing it while soft? How do you drill a squirming, rolling bead, (i.e. what drill, how do you keep it still, etc?) Many thanks from a real newbie! |
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If you do drill, try a small drill press. Riverstone.com has little
rubber pads you can use to keep things still, maybe the hardware store would have them too I don't know. Drill presses don't tend to have the rolling problem as much. There's a plate on the bottom that has a hole so you can poke the drill through but this also serves to stabilize round parts as they'll tend to settle in the depression. Ingrid |
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