How to Apply Clear Coatings to Glass Beads

Video Transcript

"All right. So, now we're going to apply the clear to the bead, which will make it look super cool, add a magnifying effect to it. When applying clear to the bead, I definitely go by the rule of "Better safe than sorry". So use a lot of it, because once you use a little bit of it and you try to come back and do it or redo it, it just never looks the same. So, just try and get a whole bunch on there the very first time, and you should be all right. As you can see, this clear rod is pretty thick, so you get it nice and heated. All right, so basically, you just want to take it one time around the bead should be good enough with this thick rod. So, we'll just go real slow. Try not to trap any air bubbles in there, because those are annoying and look stupid. That was snow that just fell in there. That was nice. Oh yeah. See how we're just slowly working it, and just kind of turning with my left hand here and just kind of holding the glass in the middle there. You don't really have to get the whole bead. You kind of just want to get a big chunk of the clear in the middle, and then just, hopefully, it will spread itself out. All righty, we have a little...ah, we'll just melt that in. All right."