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😮 I am wondering, I have heard of people removing eyes before. I ask for two pieces. First, a pyo dragon, that I really just don’t like the eye color with the paint on her together. Can her eyes be switched out for a different color? Second, I have a regular production piece that has scratches on the glass? plastic? eye and i’d like to replace it with a new eyeball. Any advice? 😕
yes, I had to change an eye on my SK, and you soak with very warm water, for a half hour, possibly several times, depending on the piece, and then the glue will soften. Then the eye can be removed with a toothpick. Melody told me how to do that. And she sent me a new eye to glue back in, that was better sized, so it didn’t look as cross-eyed, in my case. The PYO should be really easy to get different eye colors, and Melody will likely send you a new eye for the production piece, if it needs replacing. 😀
Hello, meaning put her in a sink of water to soak her? I thought you weren’t supposed to get them wet? Let alone leave them soaking? 😮 😮 That idea sorta scares me…
No, put the dragon on some towels and then pour some very warm water over the eye socket and then wait a half hour, then do it again, and repeat a couple of more times. This should soften the glue enough to GENTLY remove the eye with a toothpick.
sounds bad when you say pour it over the eye socket
You want to just put the water in the eye socket only, so that it gets underneath the glass eye to loosen up the glue in the back. Try to keep the rest of the face dry and when you’re prying the glass eye out of the socket, keep whatever you’re using (toothpick or I use a semi thick needle) OFF the eyesocket, you do not want to rest whatever you’re using on the socket because it may chip the gypsum there. The gypsum will be more prone to chipping if it’s soaked up the water and the paint will be more prone to rubbing/chipping/etc.
True, but if you are waiting a half hour in between for glue to soften, the rest of the face should be dry by then…
Hmm… don’t I have to kind of touch the eyesocket where the edge of the eye is to get it out? Maybe I will just leave them I would rather have them this way then if I were to take a chunk out of the gypsum around the eye 😮 😕
Just don’t use the edge of the eye socket as leverage to push down on with your toothpick to pry the eye out is what I meant lol
I’ve only removed eyes in pyos, never production pieces. Acetone takes them right out… but seeing as you’ve already painted it, that would probably be a bad idea.
I was merely pointing out that it also can damage the gypsum, in case you were planning to re-touch the paint…
49ER wrote:I was merely pointing out that it also can damage the gypsum, in case you were planning to re-touch the paint…
Before when the pyos came with glued in eyes, I always used nail polish remover to get the eyes out. The nail polish remover never damaged the sculpt. Perhaps you thought I meant to soak the sculpture in it? I just put a few drops into the eye sockets, that’s it. You don’t need to soak it. A few drops and let it sit for about a minute and they’ll come right out.
No damage, even when it got on the blank sculpt 🙂
Although I’m not sure what you meant by “retouching paint”? I said it would be a bad idea to use it on an already painted piece, so I was talking only about blank pyos.Removing eyes from a sculpture that is already painted is risky at best. Our official suggestion is ‘don’t try it!’ That said, if you feel you really must, I believe Kyrin has suggestions. You can PM her.
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