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Things you can Make with Glass Blowing
Glass Used to Blow Glass Jars
Tools for Glass Blowing
How to Begin Stretching Color for Glass Blowing
How to Stretch the Green Glass for your Glass Blowing Project
Stretching Clear Glass for Glass Blowing
How to Round Out a Tube with Glass Blowing
How to Apply Blue in Glass Blowing
How to Apply Green in Glass Blowing
How to Heat Up a Glass Piece
How to Drag Color in Glass Blowing
More Tips for Dragging Color in Glass Blowing
How to Apply Clear Coat in Glass Blowing
How to Blend Clear Coat in Glass Blowing
How to Begin Blowing Glass
How to Control Thickness when Blowing Glass
How to Blow Glass for Base & Missed Sections
How to Remove the Tube in Glass Blowing
How to Expand the Top Hole in Glass Blowing
The Cold Seal & Kiln in Glass Blowing
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Summary: The first steps in stretching your glass for your glass blowing project; tips, tricks and techniques for creating your own blown glass pieces in this free online art lesson on video taught by expert glass artisan Tom Wright.
Tom Wright is the owner of "Ginger Bread Glass" and has worked in the warehouse of Delphi Glass. He has over two years of professional experience in fashioning glass ornaments.read more
"Hi! I'm Tom Wright from Ginger Bread Glass and I'm here today to show you how to make a glass jar. Now we're going to stretch the color for application. This is kind of a boring little task, but it's got to be done. We're going to light her up here. Make sure we're running at a proper pressure. We're going to do the caramel first. I'm actually going to chop this in half make 2 sticks of it. Take our tweezers. Give it a little bushier flame here. We're just going to heat this up and we're going to stretch it out. With the smaller torch, you want to stretch them out because you wouldn't really be able to get a good melt on all this stuff if you were just straight up apply it to he jar. If you had a bigger torch, you wouldn't necessarily have to stretch the colors as much, but for this one, that's what we're going to do. You just heat it up and hold one side and stretch the other one. We'll just pop that in the kiln. It's ready to go."
eHow Article: How to Begin Stretching Color for Glass Blowing
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