I don't know if this has been said already, but the way I do it in soft glass (haven't tried it yet in boro) it to make a tentical cane, a vine cane, but with clear in the center, and put the cap on the tip of your tentical cane, let that sit as you warm up a nice sized glob of clear. After you have a good sized glob you can super heat the bottom third, and then push your tentical cane in as far as you can, and the molten glass will heat the tentical cane enough for it to mushroom into the cap when it hits the solid glass. Then you can melt of the tentical cane and finish the pendant.
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