How to Form the Bail When Making Spun Glass Pendant

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Tom Wright, from Gingerbread and Glass, on behalf of Expert Village. This step I'm going to talk to you about making the bail on your pendant. Now, to make the bail on your pendant, you need to have your cold seal attached here to the bottom of the pendant, and take your - I'm going to use a clear borosilicate rod - you can use any sort of rod color or clear, but it has to be a solid rod. Now I'm going to get the tip of this started and get it hot, then I'm going to connect it towards the front side of the pendant that I want. This will be the front, therefore I'm going to connect it to closer to this side. We'll get this hot, and we will connect it. Now we're going to try and work that in with the glass so it's got a nice and solid connection with the pendant. Now, now that that is connected, (as you can see there), we're going to get the glass hot and gradually we're going to pull out towards the front of the pendant, (a little bit of twisting with my right hand there), now we're going to heat the rod and try and arc it backwards into the bail. A little twisting, we connect it with the back of the pendant, now we're going to detach the clear rod. Now we're going to heat this up and I'm going to use my mashers again to get the bail in the position that I want."