Eyes were an issue for me for a long time. Over the years I have gotten better. This is what help me get started on doing a better eye. I learn this from a fellow carver many years back and do not remember his name.
At the hardware store I got 5 different dynamiters of brass tubes 1/8th, 1/4 , 5/16th , 3/8th,1/2” . I cut 11/2 inch off each one and epoxyed those cut offs into 1 inch dynamiter dowels that I had drilled a ½ inch hole in and cut to 3 inches lengths and rounded one end. Using a burr I sharpened the inside edge of each tube.
As you can see it is just scrap dowel and piece of brass tubing.
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I sharpen on the inside if the tube
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Then I draw a center line. Then using the punch I mark the eye ball. Then shape the eye and recess it back into the head
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