2014-Glassblowing
 The shiny silver tank in back is filled with melted glass |
 The red-hot area is the glory hole where you remelt your glass so you can work with it. |
 CRAZY HOT when you open the door to get some glass on your pipe. (2200F) |
 Neat contraption to cool off your pipe |
 Making the jackline on her piece, which is how you'll separate it from the pipe when finished. |
 Taking the molten glass out and letting it fall a little off the pipe. |
 Rolling it into a cylinder |
 You roll the pipe with your left hand and work the glass with your right |
 My instructor Pearl |
 Just finishing a small bubble blown in the glass |
 Rolling out my cylinder |
 This is probably where I destroyed my first piece by hitting the door on the glory hole. (Melted glass just sticks to it, so you have to start completely over) |
 Attempt #2 to take the glass out without hitting the door. (I was the only person in class who made this mistake.) |
 It's really hard to blow. You need to make sure the glass is soft. |
 Yay! There's a little bubble in it. |
 Working the glass while my partner (who you can't see) is blowing in the pipe |
 See the bubble? I should have told her to stop blowing sooner, it was way too thin |
 Now you see my partner blowing. Since I screwed up, she had to do it twice. |
 The pipe cooler |
 Love the octopus at the bottom |
 Tools of the trade |
 Wooden block used for shaping a sphere. We didn't use these. |
 They also host weddings at the shop. Setting up for one. |
 Voilá. My finished works of art. |