Quarantine project 2 years in the making (brief interruption for ya know...having a baby..) but Sergei got the home lamp work shop going in our garage! We hadn't done any glass work since the baby. So while he was spending hours re-familiarizing himself of how to make beads, I apparently can zoom in and make a spacer bead that doesn't suck!
It turns out making lamp work beads without carpal tunnel is much easier than with it. :)