Nine professionally filmed instructional videos. Five master glass artists walk you step by step — from choosing your first torch to pulling finished sherlocks, hammers, water pipes, and goblets. A complete education in borosilicate glass art.
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In borosilicate glassblowing, failure isn't free. Every cracked piece, every botched fuming, every ruined tube costs you material, fuel, and hours of work. Random YouTube clips don't teach you how to avoid those failures — they just show you the highlight reel.
People don't pay for information. They pay for reduced failure. That's exactly what a structured, step-by-step system from experienced artists gives you.
Each video is a complete, structured lesson — not a highlight reel. Watch a master artist build a piece from raw tubing to finished work, explaining every decision along the way.
Your complete launch pad. Hosted by pipe maker Scott Rogers, with two master artists showing two styles — production and artistic — of color-changing glass. Covers glass sourcing, a five-torch comparison, tank storage, ventilation testing, and hand tools. Finish it knowing exactly what to buy and how to make your first piece.
Step up from your first spoon. Learn inside/out glass, side-car bubblers, and how to sink a downstem to turn a pipe into a water-filtered piece — the techniques that start making your work look professional.
Build a two-piece bubbler sherlock step by step. Pull color and latticinos fast with a cordless drill — prep secrets that cut your time so you spend more of it creating (and selling) new pieces.
Go heavy: a five-piece opposing-spiral sherlock in purple dichroic, mallard, and cobalt blue. Master dichro cane pulling — "glitter for glass" — worked top to bottom, completely hand-blown in the torch.
One of the most demanding builds in functional glass: a large inside/out opposing-spiral hammer, worked top to bottom, step by step so you won't miss a move. No lathe — all hand-blown at the torch.
The pinnacle of the path. A large-scale water pipe, heavily worked top to bottom, completely hand-blown in the torch — no lathe. The master-level construction everything else builds toward.
Pull lattichinos, ribbon lattichinos, and rich color into simple jars that sell. The fastest way to build the vessel-forming and wall control that carry into every advanced piece — and they make great craft-fair and gift items.
Take jars from gift to collectible: apply dichroic glass, millis (murrine), and magnifiers to your work. Advanced vessel techniques that build directly on Volume 1.
Hand-blown borosilicate wine goblets — a standout at craft fairs and a gift people remember. Learn stem-pulling and base work step by step, and prove your range as an artist.
Bundle courses together and save significantly versus buying individually.
Everything you need to go from zero to making advanced pipes, sherlocks, hammers, and water pipes.
All 9 videos. Every technique. 11 hours of master instruction — the full Boro Mastery education.
The Secrets series began in 2000 as Humboldt Films, shot in working glass studios in California's famed Humboldt County — the very first video filmed at Willo's Liquid Light Studio, one of the studios that helped launch the region's now world-renowned glass scene. Real master artists building real pieces from raw tubing to kiln, narrating every decision at the torch.
The original films were later acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass, where they remain held in the permanent collection of the Rakow Research Library. That collection has now been digitized and remastered for instant streaming and download — same master instruction, no discs, no shipping, on any device.
Hosted by pipe maker Scott Rogers, the series brings together master artists who each have a distinct specialty. Volume 1 features two artists back-to-back so you see two approaches — production and artistic — to the same technique. Later volumes go deep with individual masters.
Pioneer of the color-changing technique — silver and gold fuming to create iridescent shifts across the glass surface. The first voice you hear in Volume 1.
The artist behind the advanced builds — inside/out glass, side-car bubblers, and downstem sinking, five-piece opposing-spiral sherlocks in dichroic glass, and inside/out opposing-spiral hammers. The technically demanding work that separates beginners from artists.
Large-scale water pipes worked heavily from top to bottom — completely hand blown in the torch, no lathe. The biggest, most ambitious construction in the series.
Lattichino pulling, dichroic application, millis, and magnifiers. Teaches the vessel-forming fundamentals that underpin all advanced work — jars through wine goblets.
All five instructors have been blowing borosilicate glass professionally for 10+ years. Their videos were shot in working studios with professional multi-angle camera setups — the same techniques, the real environment.
Volume 1 covers every piece of equipment in detail. Here's the overview so you know what you're getting into.
An oxygen-propane bench torch is your primary tool. Beginner options include the Bethlehem Alpha and GTT Bobcat — both handle boro and run on oxygen concentrators.
Didymium glasses that block infrared, UV, and sodium flare. Non-negotiable — your eyes need protection from the torch's intense light and radiation.
Oxygen and fuel regulators control gas pressure. T-grade hoses with B fittings and flashback arrestors keep you safe. The foundation of your studio.
Graphite paddles, tungsten probes, tweezers, glass nippers, scoring knife, and claw grabbers. These shape your molten glass into finished art.
Clear borosilicate tubing (COE 33) plus color rods and fuming metals — silver and gold — for the signature color-changing effect.
Slowly cools your finished glass to relieve internal stress. Without proper annealing, your work cracks. Boro is held at 1050°F and cooled at 1–2 degrees per minute.
Follow this progression. Each course builds on the last.
Glass Pipes Volume 1 ($24.95) — Equipment, torches, kilns, and tank storage. Two artists demonstrate two styles of color-changing glass. You finish this video knowing exactly what to buy and how to make your first piece.
Glass Jars Vol. 1 & 2 ($29 & $39) — Lattichinos, ribbon lattichinos, dichroic glass application, millis, and magnifiers. Jars teach vessel forming and wall control that transfer directly to advanced work.
Glass Pipes Volume 2: Advanced GlassBlowing ($39) — Inside/out glass, side-car bubblers, hammers, and dowstem sinking for water filtration. This is where your work starts to look professional.
Sherlocks Vol. 1 & 2 ($49 & $59) — Two-piece bubblers, pulling color and latticinos with a cordless drill, five-piece opposing spiral construction with dichroic glass, mallard, and cobalt blue. 2.5 hours of focused sherlock instruction.
Hammers ($59) & Water Pipes ($59) — Inside/out opposing spiral hammers and large-scale water pipe construction. No lathe work — completely hand blown in the torch. The pinnacle of functional glass craft.
Wine Goblets ($49) — Hand-blown borosilicate wine goblets. Great for craft fairs and gifts. Proves your range as a glass artist and opens an entirely different market.
The errors that waste the most material, fuel, and time — and exactly how to avoid them. Free PDF guide based on 11 hours of instruction from 5 master artists.
Begin with Volume 1 for $24.95 — or get all 9 courses and save $122 with the Complete Collection.