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History of Glass Blowing & Ornament Making
Glass Blowing: Techniques & Furnaces
Glass Blowing: Tools
Glass Blowing: Using an Annealer
Glass Blowing: Safety
Glass Blowing: How to Gather Molten Glass
Glass Blowing: How to Make a Holiday Ornament
Glass Blowing: How to Properly Cool Pieces
Glass Blowing: Using an Optic Mold to Make Holiday Ornaments
Glass Blowing: Using an Optic Mold to Create Texture on Holiday Ornaments
Glass Blowing: Adding a Hanging Loop to a Holiday Ornament
Glass Blowing: Making Blown Glass Fishing Boats
Glass Blowing: Feathering Technique
Glass Blowing: Using a Pick to Feather a Holiday Ornament
Glass Blowing: Adding Patches to Holiday Ornaments
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A fun, and yet difficult hobby or career is blowing glass. If you've taken classes, and read books to lear… More
Summary: Glass blowing tools and what they're used for; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video by a glass blowing expert.
Ana Willow Obermayr, a fourth generation artist in the Obermayr family, has been blowing glass since 1994. She received her early training in Seattle Washington where she studied at...read more
"Hi I’m Anna from Annawillowglassdesign.30art.com and I wanted to show you a couple of different glass blowing tools that we use and these particular tools here you see on the glass working bench. The bench is very important itself but the tools that we use and these are called hand tools. This is a pair of jacks and a pair of tweezers. These are two of the most ancient tools that we use in glass blowing. These tools are very similar to the same kind of tools that the Egyptian’s were using 2,000 years ago. These are wooden blocks that we soak in water and we use these to ship the glass right after we got it out of the furnace. This is an interesting tool because using the water to soak the wood in actually creates a cushion of steam between the glass and the wood and that is actually what shapes the glass is the cushion of steam. "
eHow Article: Glass Blowing: Tools
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