Bruce Broke
Nathan Michaels - June 6, 2019, 12:44 a.m.
tags: blown solid paperweight bowl
Remember the yellow bumble bee vase from...
Butter do it right!
Jennifer Michaels - June 5, 2019, 11:52 p.m.
tags: blown pint-glass
Dear Glasshopper team,
Let's see if we can remember the tip from Ellen to use a butter knife to s...
For Grandma Bruce
Nathan Michaels - May 19, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: blown solid paperweight pint-glass vase pineapple-mold
Today's festivities started with a primer on how to shut everything down. I guess we've done this en...
Happy Mother's Day (Belated)
Nathan Michaels - May 19, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: blown solid paperweight pint-glass flower
Jen's glass was "smaller than...
Pun Team
Nathan Michaels - May 12, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: blown solid paperweight flower vase pineapple-mold
This week's efforts saw some use of the pineapple mold. I made a bubbly paperweight with it....
Best Glass Yet
Nathan Michaels - May 12, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: blown solid paperweight pint-glass
Last week's results were few but good. Lucas made what's probably the best drinking glass we've seen...
Floor Model
Nathan Michaels - May 5, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: blown bits pint-glass
This week, we got some unexpected help from Seth....
Survivors
Nathan Michaels - May 5, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: solid paperweight pint-glass
Last week's experimenting left us without much stuff. Lucas got a fast notch-glass....
Mold no more
Jennifer Michaels - May 3, 2019, 8:33 p.m.
tags: blown pint-glass mold
You might have noticed we stopped using the pint glass mold. Someone told us it was crup so we've mo...
It's Easy
Lucas - May 1, 2019, 12:35 a.m.
Nathan and Jen made a paperweight when we first arrived, and I spent a good 30 minutes sanding down...
Unbroken, Unusually
Lucas - May 1, 2019, 12:11 a.m.
tags: blown
This week we got to take home things that survived the annealer.
Nathan got a thing with a foot:...
Without Fire, It's Just Pottery
Nathan Michaels - April 21, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: blown pint-glass
There was some molding going on today. It occasionally made for interesting stuff to look at....
Results, but Not Pint Glasses
Nathan Michaels - April 21, 2019, 5:59 p.m.
tags: bowl blown paperweight
This started life as a pint glass, but after some breakage and some recovery, we ended up with a nic...
More Broken Pint Glasses
Nathan Michaels - April 14, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: blown paperweight pint-glass bowl
Today we got to fail some more at making pint glasses. I think next time we'll try not using the mol...
Picked Up Paperweights
Nathan Michaels - April 14, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: solid paperweight
In addition to some other things we did today, we picked up the paperweights from last Wednesday's s...
Pop Goes the Pint Glass
Jennifer Michaels - April 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
tags: blown solid paperweight pint-glass
Okay, we went to class. We watched our instructor do it. Now we tried on our own...
Pop goes the...
Glassblowing 1 #4: Cane
Nathan Michaels - April 3, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: class blown pint-glass cane
This class started with making cane. The process starts with some color on a (not very large) bit of...
Glassblowing 1 #3: Bits and Bobs
Nathan Michaels - March 27, 2019, 6 p.m.
We started the class playing "hot potato" with a big hunk of glass. After several failed attempts, w...
Glassblowing 1 #2: Shapes
Nathan Michaels - March 20, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: class blown solid flower bowl
This class started with some practice gathers and trying to let glass drip down as far as possible w...
Glassblowing 1 #1: Return of the Glass
Nathan Michaels - March 13, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: class blown solid pint-glass
Having had a good time at...
An Adventure Begins
Nathan Michaels - Feb. 12, 2019, 6 p.m.
tags: class blown solid paperweight swedish-bowl
This web site is here to document our glassmaking adventures. We took our first class on February 2n...
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