Hi everyone. I'm the wife of the poster to this question and know nothing
of home repair. I'm a travel agent, that's what I do, not a Mrs. Fix It.
However......I do understand enough about it to realize my husband didn't
really explain his question well enough and so I'm going to give it a
shot:
I'm making Christmas decorations for friends and family this year as I do
every year. This year, I decided to make what are called Glass Block
Lights. You take a glass block (like the kind builders use to make
decorative walls with), drill a 1/2 inch hole in a corner of one of the
sides, put Christmas lights in it, a bow on top with ribbon wrapping
around the block, plug it in and voila, you have a lit up "Christmas
present" that make beautiful decorations. Our problem wasn't with drilling
the holes: it was in finding one-ended strands of 35 Christmas lights. All
we could find were the ones that have plugs on both ends to enable you to
connect strands to strands. Thus, he thought he could get online and get
some advice on how to cut one of the ends off a 50 strand double-ended
string to use.

This is a really helpful site and we both appreciate every response we've
gotten. I apologize that he didn't explain what he needed well enough. Any
ideas, all you fix-it men out there? I know someone has to know what I'm
trying to make and tell me how to do it. Or, it may just be I need to get
the 20-light one-ended lights and be done with it. It just won't be as
bright as I'd like.

Thanks so much in advance for any advice and Happy Holidays!

Tara