Borosilicate Lampwork Glass

Stone pendant
On a 1/8 inch mandrel make a bead and pop it into the kiln for your bail leaving enough of the mandrel hanging out so you can grab it later without getting burned.
Take a 8 mm clear rod and melt a ball on the end. Cover the ball with butterscotch by striping from the top of the ball down. Completely cover the clear. Melt smooth. Dip in frit blend of choice. Melt smooth. Now roll in clear frit (optional) and melt smooth. When ball is hot and molten flatten it with parallel mashers. Heat the lollipop. Take your tungsten pick and get it hot and glowing. Pierce the center of your lollipop with the tungsten pick. Keep the pick hotter than the glass or the pick will stick. Do this until you have a hole big enough to fit your graphite reamer. Now keep the glass hot and keep the reamer out of the flame. Work the hole until it is the size you like. Keep the hole hot and burn away any of the graphite that gets into the hole. Now remove your bead bail from the kiln and attach it to the top of the lollipop by getting both the bead and the spot where you will attach it glowing hot. You want a hot seal. Bring the two together in the flame then remove them from the flame and pull up on your bead bail. Straighten it out before it sets. Now smooth out the chill marks around the seal in the flame. Now you have the mandrel in one hand and the clear rod in the other. Using gradient heat , heat from the hole to the end with the clear rod and begin to pull into the desired shape. Pull off clear rod and then melt end into the arrow shape. Use brass stump shaper to make arrow. Now decorate the front of the pendant with dots or squiggles and pop into hot kiln.