Post #415324 by Benzart on Sat, Oct 25, 2008 7:47 AM

Thanks Tama, I appreciate your words of wisdom. I guess I should have taken some shots of the eye procedure. You can see on this shot that the eye opening is just a straight, 90 degree, "V" cut which I cleaned up later.
All I did was cut a 1/8" square rod about 1" long from a Black shiny stone. I made sure it would slide into the 90 deg trough as tightly as possible, then pre-shaped the eye , one on each end, as close as possible. Then the eyes were detached from the block and epoxied into their slots. At that the eye looked gigantic and were ground down and shaped further. I figured the worse thing that could happen as I could mess up with getting them even and have to start all over, but it seemed to have worked out fine in the end. I really MUST thank Paipo and his intricate pieces he has shown us with stone-in-stone inlays for having the faith that it Could be done. Of course the postings from YOU, T3, have made it easy for me to transition from wood to the Hard stuff. Thanks both of you. I hope that clearly explains how I did the eyes on this guy, if not let me know. I Promise to take photo of it next time, but you know how hard it is to stop a wild run to use the camera! :P

T-Paka, Thanks for your funny, kind words too. You seem to be becoming my biggest fan? As for miss Blue eyes, not long I think.
Sorry you Missed that eBay auction but another TC'r won it Away from you :), there will be more maybe!

OH Yeah, as far as being lind, these new gadgets REALLY make a difference. Where the old style mag's had a 4 inch working distance, these have a 16 inch distance.

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[ Edited by: Benzart 2008-10-25 07:51 ]