Thursday, July 2, 2015

Glassblowing Master Class with Ed Schmid at the Crucible

Recently, Tim took a week-long masterclass with Edward T Schmidt (Glass Mountain Studios), a legend among American glassblowers. Ed wrote the book on glassblowing every glass blower has to have a copy of, Advanced Glassworking Techniques. His class covered the history of glassblowing from Greek and Roman times to the present.

Here are some photos from the class:

Ed Schmid working on a bottle

Ed Schmid starting a piece

Katrina Hude (assistant for the class)


A couple of the pieces Tim made in the class:

A Stangenglass, a historical drinking glass from Germany.
The colored bits of glass are there to prevent fingers from slipping
when the drinker's hands are greasy with mutton juice :)

A bottle