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Step 9Knock it off and add a bit (Part Two)
With that finished, you're ready to add your bit.
If you don't all ready have them in hand, grab whatever tools you're using. I find either a combination of diamond shears and tweezers or shears and tweezers to be the most useful. Work with whatever you're most comfortable with.
Get down eye level with your piece, and have your partner hold the punty vertically over your piece. Grab the punty with the tweezers and pull it down so that the glass coming off the end touches your piece where it broke off the blow pipe (The goal of this is to cover up the sharp corners that were left when you knocked the piece off, and giving you a loop to hang the ornament from the tree).
Let the glass completely cover the jagged part of your ornament and then pull the punty up away from your piece. You might have to hold your piece down with the shears or diamond cutters while pulling the punty away.
With the punty a few inches away from your piece (find the distance that works best for you...not too far, not too close), you want to grab the glass (closer to your ornament then the punty) with the shears or or diamond shears and pull it up and stick it to the glass on the punty. If you touch hot glass to other hot glass it will stick quite well. Since we don't want too fat a loop we need to thin out the amount of glass that is currently attached to our ornament. The way you do this, is to grab the hot glass near the ornament and pull it up and stick it to the glass by the punty. Continue to do this until the glass on your ornament is pretty thin and you think it would make a nice loop.
Use the shears or diamond shears to cut the glass, and have the person with the punty move away. Grab near the end of the glass with the tweezers and loop it around and touch the end of the glass with the hot glass toward the base. This should create a small hoop that you'll be able to tie string to, attach a metal hook to, or use whatever other means you like to attach it to your tree.
If you don't all ready have them in hand, grab whatever tools you're using. I find either a combination of diamond shears and tweezers or shears and tweezers to be the most useful. Work with whatever you're most comfortable with.
Get down eye level with your piece, and have your partner hold the punty vertically over your piece. Grab the punty with the tweezers and pull it down so that the glass coming off the end touches your piece where it broke off the blow pipe (The goal of this is to cover up the sharp corners that were left when you knocked the piece off, and giving you a loop to hang the ornament from the tree).
Let the glass completely cover the jagged part of your ornament and then pull the punty up away from your piece. You might have to hold your piece down with the shears or diamond cutters while pulling the punty away.
With the punty a few inches away from your piece (find the distance that works best for you...not too far, not too close), you want to grab the glass (closer to your ornament then the punty) with the shears or or diamond shears and pull it up and stick it to the glass on the punty. If you touch hot glass to other hot glass it will stick quite well. Since we don't want too fat a loop we need to thin out the amount of glass that is currently attached to our ornament. The way you do this, is to grab the hot glass near the ornament and pull it up and stick it to the glass by the punty. Continue to do this until the glass on your ornament is pretty thin and you think it would make a nice loop.
Use the shears or diamond shears to cut the glass, and have the person with the punty move away. Grab near the end of the glass with the tweezers and loop it around and touch the end of the glass with the hot glass toward the base. This should create a small hoop that you'll be able to tie string to, attach a metal hook to, or use whatever other means you like to attach it to your tree.
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