Sadly, this little guy exploded not long after this photo was taken, and he now resides in the trash bin. As it turns out, the integrity of his internal composition had been compromised even before he developed fins. The core is a large bead, onto which details have been carefully applied. Fins were flattened using a pair of tweezers, lips dented by pressing a blade horizontally into a blob of red glass. The difficult part is keeping the central bead warm and happy while applying the details, which I did not. Consequently, the over cooled bead cracked internally, and even once annealed (in the kiln), the pressure of having a cord pulled through the center of it was too much to bear, and his face fell off in too many pieces to glue back on.