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 enough times that they're willing to trust us alone in the shop. Shows what they know.
Hi-jinx over, and tools prepared
we set to work making things.
We made a couple of paper weights, since the color was out.
Lucas decided to try to re-create his bubbly glass from last week.
Step 4ish: cool the bottom, thin the sides.
It looked pretty good.
The transfer went well, and the mouth opened nicely.
Until...
It didn't separate from the punty quite as planned.
Jen got ambitious and put color on a little glass/bowl thing.
It actually made it to the annealer. I was impressed.
My attempt at the bubbly 3-gather glass started out rough.
After some work, though, it looked pretty nice.
Then it got a giant crack in its base.
All told, we managed to make a few things to keep, but more landed in the bin.
