So your streamer has a nice formed head and you've applied head cement...hard as hull...or whatever...it hasn't quite cured...sometimes even if it has. You want to clean out the eye without damaging that nice shiny head... yeah I know the tooth pick trick...no sweat...heat up your bodkin and burn the finish out with zero damage to head finish.
If this is an old trick...it was an unintentional tips and tricks infringement on my part.