Glass Blowing

This furnace is called a Glory Hole in glass blowing. It's the one you go back to regularly to keep your part warm and prevent it from breaking.

To add some color, we dip our clear glass in a bowl full of glass frit. The size of the glass chunks changes the way the color is distributed in the part.

We can see here Kyna using a Jack's tool to shape a marble.

Glass blowing is a team effort. While someone blows in the blowpipe, the other uses a wood block to shape the part. It's important to keep the block wet so it doesn't catch fire.

This is a wood paddle to flatten the edge of the bowl.

Here, Richard-Alexandre is using a torch to warm up the base of his part. After the torch, he is going to drop a few water droplets to locally weaken the glass. This is how you control where your part is going to separate from the blowpipe.

We made a paperweight each, this one was made by Richard-Alexandre.

This is a sucked up bowl. You start with a bubble and then warm up half of it. By sucking up the air inside the sphere, you end up with a double wall bowl.

We finally made a glass. The goal is to make a thick base and a very thin edge, but as you can see, I didn't succeed.