Sunday, August 25, 2002

Kel was telling me on

Kel was telling me on the way home last night about someone of her acquaintence who has glass eyes - she’d gone blind early in life and her useless darkened eyes were causing her discomfort and inconvenience, so she had ‘em replaced with plastic ones.  Apparently the process involves filling the empty socket with hot wax, somehow forming a mold for the custom apparatus under construction.  My question was, How do they get the wax out?  The other cool thing is sometimes they accidentally put the eye in upsidedown, and it looks at you strangely; that’s a look I’d like to perfect.  In researching this post I did not learn how to extract a solid wax orbitmold from a yawning socket, but did find this: