Glass Pipe Making for Beginners — Volume 1 — Free Preview

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1:04 Welcome to the secret world of glassblowing. My name is Scott Rogers. I'll be your host for this video.

1:12 You may not know it, but glass has been a big secret for a lot of years and

1:17 people don't

1:18 really want to let the secret out, but now is your chance to observe it

1:23 yourself.

1:32 A lot of people don't realize that glass is made from sand.

1:38 Blowing glass isn't for everybody.

1:40 It's not the easiest thing to do.

1:43 There's a lot of heat involved and everybody that blows glass gets

1:48 burnt.

2:04 I'm Mufasa from [unclear] Productions.

2:07 Today we're going to do a demonstration on your basic spoon.

2:10 What we do here is you just get it really hot and we take our solid rod and

2:15 we mix it

2:16 and we kind of pull it out of the fire, twisting it and spinning both

2:21 pieces.

2:22 That way it breaks away evenly.

2:24 So you want to bring it in slower.

2:25 because the cold and hot will just slam against each other and make your

2:31 cracks and

2:33 explosions on your piece. So another thing is if you're working with any

2:37 kind of metals

2:38 by fuming the glass, you want to have very good ventilation.

2:41 I'm going to do a color [unclear]. Trailing color on and raking it with clear.

2:47 So the first thing is open up and end so you can blow into it.

2:52 Heat it up a little bit so that you don't cut your mouth because the glass

2:55 is sharp.

2:58 And warm it up a little bit so that it will accept the silver that you will

3:02 spray on it.

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