Floor Model

Nathan Michaels - May 5, 2019, 6 p.m.

tags: blown bits pint-glass

This week, we got some unexpected help from Seth.

So emboldened with our recently updated skills, we set to work making some glasses. Lucas managed to make a passable one, and I started in on one for me.

I got it in pretty good shape, and Lucas brought over a punty. I got it nicely centered, broke it off the pipe, and...

floor model

It fell on the floor. Jen tried next, and it collapsed in the reheater.

Undeterred, I tried again. This time, it had a more interesting shape, but we put a nice bottom on it, attached a punty, broke it off the pipe, and...

floor model, the second

It fell on the floor. So we spent some time poking at it.

Tags

class blown solid paperweight swedish-bowl pint-glass flower bowl vase bits cane mold pineapple-mold optic-mold grinding starfish wrap glass-camp