Glassworker Puns

I'm not sure if anyone can help me but I have a 2000 Nascar commemorative super oversized glass Budweiser beer bottle thing that was my dad's. He passed away years ago but I still remember us putting change in it and it was one of the first things I've always kept around close to me and safe. Last night it was accidentally broken by someone and both that person and bottle are very dear to me. I can somewhat tape it together but I really don't want to lose this. Is there anyone here who can maybe repair it or turn what is salvageable into something new? Or anything you'd suggest I do? Thank you.

Hi,

I've moved to Valencia recently and I'm looking for someone to replace a shattered glass door in my cupboard (preferably close to Ciutat Vella). I found few places in google but noone seems to pick up the phone, so I visited 4 places personally but they were all closed (opening hours were 17:00-19:30 and I went there at 18:00) - no information on the door if they are closed for holidays.

The matter is pretty urgent so if any of you know about a place that is open please let me know.

Thanks!

ISO a glassworker with a lathe

I have a fairly small adapter piece I nedd created out of Boroscillate Glass. In speaking with other artists, a lathe would make things much simpler.

Willing to buy supplies, beer, and pay you for your time. Both pieces are measured, sketched, and ready to go -- just missing this piece.

PM if interested and we can discuss specifics and break it all down,im guessing itll be 2-3hours start fo finish.

Or if you know where else I should lookthats also appreciated. Thanks in advance

Hi all!!

A few years ago, I was able to get a scholarship to my city's Glass Center, and I fell in love with torchwork--using a butane torch to make small items like marbles/small figurines. Almost every year since then I've been able to take classes, and I truly love flamework and glass crafting. But it makes me curious, knowing those in the community here and how they travel to wider glass expos: are there other Black women glassworking artists around?

I mostly just want to make connections and talk about craft, since I'm always the only one in classes or attending extra workshops. But I'm open to questions or showing my very still amateur work! I haven't delved into glassblowing personally, as I prefer smaller projects, but I'm still so excited and curious about the field as a whole.

Thanks ya'll!

-Treezypoo

Yes, it is for a bong.

My old roommate dropped a power brick on my big beautiful piece, and broke the... hole dealy where the downstem goes in. We've tried gluing it back together with Loctite for Glass, but it doesn't want to stay. Looking for someone who can either re-melt it together (we have most of the pieces), or make and seamlessly attach a whole new hole-dealy part. Of course, we will pay you for your work!

Thanks in advance. :)

(E: small but tricky. Though it's for a small bit of the piece, so...?)

Anyone know of any local glass artists that offer private lessons? Beginner looking for something inside the loop. Thanks!

How's it going everyone I'm looking for an Australian glass worker for some commission work was going to buy over seas and decided to try my luck in Australia first I was told through r/Australia that Apparantly canberra has an active glass artist scene so just wondering if anyone can push me in the right direction

Thanks in advance :)

I am a New Mexican glassworker of 8 years. I use a Bethlehem torch and work 33 coe, aka hard glass.

Proof: https://www.instagram.com/p/BEkUZyby5kz

https://i.redd.it/815a8v72n0381.gif

So, about the part of the process of making Albedo.

As you can see, to do these kind of Glasswork, they first dip this metal rod which is like a rod-horn into the melted glass and then they spin and blow into it, first so that gravity won't destroy the perfect round shape of the glass and to put a bubble inside the glass.

As the bubble cannot go out from anywhere, it makes the liquid glass to expand and take that round shape.

Then at the end, they break the narrow part of the glass attached to the rod and you have your glasswork ready. That's as far as I know.

So for Albedo to reference his making to this work was very interesting, because I assumed not many people know about how these glass objects are made manually and I was a little surprised to hear about it in the game. And the fact Albedo describes how it works, I assumed not many people know about this method.

So, now about his diamond star-shaped birthmark.

To say it simply, I think what he meant is that natural life has a flow of energy given to them naturally. Like how humans and animals are not made but born naturally.

I think it's like volcanos. When Lava is going down, if you take a glass of lava from it, lol, it's still hot and burning.

So, as the life naturally flows and have certain flow of energy, life born from that would also naturally follow the same flow of energy. Which Albedo describes as a energy that goes outward of our body, like the flowers blooming and that stuff.

But, if a rock is not yet Lava, you have to warm it to turn it into the Lava first.

So, like a Machine without electricity or a car without gas, when they are made, they cannot move or do things on their own. Because they were made from dead materials or materials that are not alive.

So, like the Frankenstein, they need that lightning or the start of a car after it has gas or the turn on switch of a lamp.

So, Gold basically blow energy into Albedo to make him become alive and like other living creatures.

While other natural lifeforms have that energy from the beginning, Albedo had to receive it in the first place.

The place on his neck where that energy, or as he said, lifeforce was granted to him, leaved a birthmark or as that energy was inserted through Alchemy methods, it leaved an alchemical mark on his neck.

The fake Albedo or the Whopperflower [Which I heard was failed Albedo's creation] tried not to imitate this mark, since normal life forms doesn't have th