Glassblowing Thread

whats more satisfying shaping it or the finished prodcut? ive always been into crap like smithing and glassblowing : ^ )

>>4640196
How do I get into glass? I'm not sure about all that heat and stuff tbvh.

>>4640200
Nice dubs!

>>4640201
Not trying to shill my site here, but I've done some small-scale scientific glassblowing if anyone's interested. Mainly making vacuum tubes (pic related). I've made a thread here before about it.

http://simplifier.neocities.org/

For those of you just starting out, you can do quite a lot with neon sign tubing (the lead-free kind, leaded glass gets ugly fast) and an ordinary blow-torch. You won't be able to make anything very large (3/4" tubing was challenging to work with) but it's a good way to learn how glass behaves, and it's cheap ($15 for the torch and $50 for a box of glass from brillite).

I'm in the process of upgrading my equipment right now; I just built a new torch, and I'm in the middle of building a glass lathe, but I should be back to making stuff within a month or two. Planning to make some stuff out of beer bottles just for fun, then start working with pyrex. I hope this thread stays open that long; glass is a really cool material and I'm happy to see it getting popular, especially for making things that aren't bongs.

>>4640207
I watched some guy at some renn faire thing do glass blowing. Tbh I don't want to burn my tits off but that is kewl imo.

>>4640196
blow me an anime figure

>>4640210
It would really help if you at least included:
1) size and thickness of the object you need (drastically different heat sources are use for different sizes)
2) if the type of glass matters (modern glass is cheaper and better overall, but you can recycle "original" glass if you have that)
3) where exactly are you. Shipping from Europe into Japan is slightly more complicated than shipping from PA to NJ, you know.

>>4640196
awesome!! how do i get into glassblowing? j want to start right away

glASSblowing lol

>>4640214
so are you saying it's possible?

>>4640280
Yes

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I have a piece of chalet glass. exactly like this. it's beautiful

>>4640196
what is "hobbies you suggest to your wife," alex?

What are your opinions on glass S U C C ing?

>>4640196
Beautiful!