There is something fascinating about the way skilled glass workers control and understand semi liquid glass. I have watched and enjoyed several of these videos from the Corning Museum of Glass. Years of practice and experience. Sadly I don’t personally like the finished pieces much.
It took a little bit to finally realize what the vase reminded me of....BIRD FEATHERS. It needed 2 carefully placed FEATHERS! I respect her right as the glass artist to choose what she added to it......but the butterflies just seemed a jumbled mess(yes, realize she was rushing there at the end) & the Narwhal was out of place. That should have been but on a vase in hues of Blue. But the vase itself was Very nice!
by the way, the torch tip you are using to heat the base of the piece is called a "rose bud", used in oxy torches to heat metal for bending, heating a solder block for soldering, these are the biggest tip sizes, for general area heating; these determine the size of tank/ cylinder you need to use (c.f.m.- cubic feet per minute-gas flow), the bigger the rose bud the bigger the c.f.m. required to 'feed it'. there is a problem with these, as I understand, if there is too little gas flow for the tip size, it can cause a 'vacuum' on the tank, ie: exceed the safe drawing speed for the gas concerned, which can cause serious problems, blowing regulators, and the like.
interesting show, one question, you have a lot of heaters for the glass, 2 furnaces and some smaller ovens, are they all at the same temperature?, and are they all used the same, ie to heat the same glass, or are some used just to apply the "coating" glass, as was done this episode, ~ 14:00 minute mark.
Hi Andy, they're set for slightly different temperatures. The melting furnace is set higher and the reheating chambers are usually around 2100 degrees F. Thanks for watching!
4:14 into the video. Can not really hear the narrative unless I eliminate all of the extraneous sounds possible. Even then I have to try and 'redirect' the audio and really really concentrate to catch it. I am hoping that this drastically improves.
There is something fascinating about the way skilled glass workers control and understand semi liquid glass. I have watched and enjoyed several of these videos from the Corning Museum of Glass. Years of practice and experience. Sadly I don’t personally like the finished pieces much.
Who knew that George was so talkative.....wonderful informative narration!!
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Easily one of my favs on Blown Away
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It took a little bit to finally realize what the vase reminded me of....BIRD FEATHERS. It needed 2 carefully placed FEATHERS! I respect her right as the glass artist to choose what she added to it......but the butterflies just seemed a jumbled mess(yes, realize she was rushing there at the end) & the Narwhal was out of place. That should have been but on a vase in hues of Blue. But the vase itself was Very nice!
by the way, the torch tip you are using to heat the base of the piece is called a "rose bud", used in oxy torches to heat metal for bending, heating a solder block for soldering, these are the biggest tip sizes, for general area heating; these determine the size of tank/ cylinder you need to use (c.f.m.- cubic feet per minute-gas flow), the bigger the rose bud the bigger the c.f.m. required to 'feed it'. there is a problem with these, as I understand, if there is too little gas flow for the tip size, it can cause a 'vacuum' on the tank, ie: exceed the safe drawing speed for the gas concerned, which can cause serious problems, blowing regulators, and the like.
What a wonderful vessel!
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interesting show, one question, you have a lot of heaters for the glass, 2 furnaces and some smaller ovens, are they all at the same temperature?, and are they all used the same, ie to heat the same glass, or are some used just to apply the "coating" glass, as was done this episode, ~ 14:00 minute mark.
Hi Andy, they're set for slightly different temperatures. The melting furnace is set higher and the reheating chambers are usually around 2100 degrees F. Thanks for watching!
Beautiful
4:14 into the video. Can not really hear the narrative unless I eliminate all of the extraneous sounds possible. Even then I have to try and 'redirect' the audio and really really concentrate to catch it. I am hoping that this drastically improves.
Excellent ❣️
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1:06 “we got the whole cmog team”
Doesn’t even include Helen? Smh
IKR!
hmmm so the narwhal wasn't attached to the vase in the end?
How many frances do you have
This guy could not stop talking for a minute, or ???? Really nervewracking
Is she transgender?
Yes
Why you want to kown that