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 mold. We were joined by Lucas, though, who has already learned some of the things not to do.
For our first attempt at making a pint glass, the end of the pipe was inside the mold.
This looked pretty good, but when we transferred it, it did not break prettily.
Some of our attempts failed early, but this next one got pretty far before the lip suddenly went all clamshell on us.
We did some heroic salvage work to rescue it, and it ended up actually looking respectably bowl-shaped.
Ultimately, though, the bottom of that piece stayed on the punty when the rest of it broke off. Another lesson learned!
We did manage to make a couple of bowl-lookin' things. Most of our attempts at blowing into the pint mold were underwhelming, so we ended up just shaping stuff until we had a few short bowls.
Did I mention that Lucas enjoyed his blocking?
In the last pint glass we tried to make, the bubble got separated from the opening in the pipe, so we rolled some color on it and made it into a funky paperweight. We'll see how that looks in a week or so.