making my own striped stringers

Yesterday I was making some stringers and decided to apply stripes of 3 different colors to a clear rod.  The rod was about the thickness of my little finger.

I first made stringers with the colors I wanted to use, then I heated the clear rod and applied the stringers in stripes of about 1 1/2 inches to the end of the clear rod.

Then I made a fatter stringer out of the striped end of the clear rod and applied that to a small bead I made using the clear glass.  It turned out looking like a stone bead only with bits of clear between the stripes.

This is a pic of some beads I have made so far.  The striped ones are at the bottom,  I made 2 of them.