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Summary: First steps for bowing your glass jar including rotating the piece to make sure the glass is even; 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. So now, we are going to expand our tube here to make our jar a little bit bigger. So, we're going to start out with the end here and we'll just kind of work our way up. This has got to get real hot. I'm going to put my torch to the limit here. The one thing to remember when you're trying to blow the glass is kind of rotate it when you're puffing on it so it doesn't all like slink to one side when you're blowing it up. That definitely helps. It's starting to move a little further."
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