[TheForge] Glass [TheForge Digest, Vol 213, Issue 6]

[Bruce]

We have Wheaton Arts, which celebrates the glass industry in NJ.  One
friend, a former blacksmith, has switched to flameworking and turns out
lovely marbles.  It's tempting.

Imagine what it would be like to blow glass in zero G!

Bruce
NJ


On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 2:17 AM Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:

>
> Mark> Always wanted to work with glass.
>
> Dick> I added glass blowing about 13 years ago on top of the 38 years
> Dick> of blacksmithing. I play with glass more often than iron these
> Dick> days.
>
> I hitched a ride home from the 1976 ABANA con with a couple who were
> keen to see the Blenko glass works in W. Virginia.  It was worth
> the extra day on the roak to visit the works.
>
> About that same time, I did a 3-day public demo adjunct to a craft
> market.  They set me up in a fire-safe, wind-protected patio and put
> the glass blower there too.  During the weekend, I forged a little
> basket affair and he blew a bottle into it.  Regrettably, we stood
> around admiring or work for too long, failed to get it into the
> annealing oven soon enough so it went PING and fell apart.
>
> He gave me some basic instruction, let me mess about a bit.
> Observation:  A blacksmith doggedly pushes the iron, inch by inch,
> millimeter by millimeter, where (s)he wants it to go.  With hot glass,
> you're constantly chasing after the gather/workpiece as it tries, in
> conspiracy with gravity, to run away from you.
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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