Advanced Glassblowing — Glass Pipes Volume 2 — Free Preview

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1:16 Just jump right in.

1:18 Since I'm a punty user and I don't use points, I don't waste time pulling points.

1:24 And the glass that you waste is about equal, so you save more time by

1:30 doing this.

1:36 The first thing I'm going to do is the stem for the sidecar bubbler.

1:45 What I'm doing is I'm heating both ends of the glass up to where when they

1:49 touch together, they will melt together.

1:50 [Speech unclear]

2:02 Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to fume the glass with silver.

2:10 [Purity wording unclear]

2:15 It has to be pure silver.

2:24 [Speech unclear]

2:31 And now I'm going to lay color on top of the silver.

2:35 And

2:41 this is a pretty standard pattern.

2:50 Basically you're taking the color glass and encasing the

2:56 tube with it.

2:58 Once your colors on,

3:01 you grab your solid rod.

3:03 Whatever size you're using,

3:06 now we're going to rake again.

3:07 Just like before, have to flame a little ahead of your solid rod.

3:15 So when the rod goes down the piece, it smears the color.

3:19 you just laid. As you can see, I have a nice little [unclear] there, and I'm going to encase it

3:28 with clear. And by doing this, it will magnify the picture that is on there. Fire polish

3:36 your mouthpiece to where it's nice and smooth. And you're done, so you want to put it in

3:41 the kiln to heat it up and cool it down equally.

3:47 Goes in the kiln, close the kiln.