Making Borosilicate Water Pipes — Volume 1 — Free Preview
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Study a large-scale borosilicate water pipe worked from top to bottom at the torch, with no lathe.
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0:07 Good morning. My name is Paul. We'll be working today on a water pipe. It's a two-piece unit.
0:14 They're quite nice to use. This one's quite extravagant. It's got a connection right here.
0:22 You blow a ball and then you make your down stem here and connect the two. It's excellent to use
0:28 a tabletop kiln. You keep your pieces preheated and ready for connections and you won't have
0:35 to crack its problems and it's a lot faster for me. We're going to be using dichroic glass which is
0:40 a metallic finish and it's kind of tricky to work with but it leaves a really nice sheen to your
0:47 piece and it's good for beads like on here because it gives you a highlight and it's something to
0:52 stare at. It's really nice that way. We're warming up. I'm going to be pulling some colors,
0:59 putting a clear coat over them to protect the glass alchemy colors. It's a brand new yellow.
1:04 It's really nice. It's a real solid color but if you don't clear coat it, it turns pretty ugly
1:12 and we're going to be pulling twisties, what I call twisties off of these clear coated canes
1:18 I'm making right now. I try not to touch. I just try to heat up the clear rod, the case color. I
1:25 don't really want to get any on the yellow because it'll make it ugly and you push down to help
1:33 stop trapping any air bubbles. As you lay it down, you're pushing down on it. We're doctoring
1:40 up the piece we're about to pull a section off. We're going to pull the end out of the piece,
1:51 blow it out, pop it in the flame and now we can puff it out a little bit, a little bit more.
2:04 It's not even. When I puff it out again, I'll make it even. Okay, now I got an area that I'm
2:20 using a smaller piece. If it's the first time you're doing a big piece like this,
2:25 because this one's really thick and it's just out of control in weight and
2:32 how it gets when you heat it up this hot.