Wrap And Rake Video

Here is our first glassblowing video! It shows Tim's signature Wrap'n'Rake technique.

And here is the finished piece:

 

This was a special order for one of our wonderful Etsy customers :)

Glass Hand Studio

We needed more practice and production time, so we took the plunge and started working at Glass Hand Studio in Alameda on the weekends. So far this is working out great! Glass Hand is a very clean, welcoming and affordable space, and the owner, Prax, is a sweetheart, very laid back and friendly.

Here are some pics from our second night:

Glass Hand Studios

Sign on the wall  in the studio.

At the furnace

Shaping

At the Glory Hole
Dear Reviewers of this page. The name for the item pictured above is the correct technical term used by professional glassblowers, Here is an article from the Corning Museum of Glass explaining the origin of this term:
https://libanswers.cmog.org/faq/144299
If you want to flag this entirely harmless page because this term happens to also be used in other contexts, be my guest. I will not change this from the correct term to something else because you think people are too stupid to take context into account when reading. Cheers.

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Marvering

Hot Glass

Final Product!

New Goblets

Tim has been working on his goblet skills, trying different techniques and colors:

Some Beautiful Work from the Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival

This weekend we took a trip to the Palo Alto Clay & Glass Festival. It was inspiring to see so many accomplished glass artists in one spot, including many artists whose work we have been admiring on the internet! We came home brimming with ideas. For anyone in Northern California, this is definitely a show worth going to.

Bob Kliss' Booth

Beautiful Reflection from this Vessel from Cristy Aloysi and Scott Graham's Booth

Heermann Lunn Glass (Press Photo)

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