Making a Glass Cane Disc

Video Transcript

"In this clip we are going to start our decorative cane that we are going to make. Basically how we are going to start this is I am going to take some color and heap it up into a ball and then I am going to squish it and then when I squish it I am going to lay colors parallel to each other on the squished part and melt that in and then I am going to twist it back out so we are going to start with the ball first so we are going to fire up the torch. Now we are just going to try and get a nice big blob of glass on the top here and we can squish it out. Let me use my marver here to scoot the glass together a little faster and keep some of the color in it. When you go to press it on you want to make sure to get it real hot and then when it comes out let it set a little bit and get a little bit of skin on the outside of the glass and that way when you marver it in there with your marver it won't all squish out and get distorted and you will still be able to keep like its essential shape but you will be able to smoosh more glass into the mass. Because if you just take it directly out of the flame and just go like boom it wouldn't keep any shape at all it would be all disfigured and it would be hard to build up a mass. When I say I guess you can call it disc too. It is a pretty common term in the glass world and I guess I should be using it in the glass world since it kind of makes sense because I guess now the more I do this it does represent a disc. Alright I think we have got almost enough glass for our disc. There is our disc, we are going to pop that back in the kiln and we will get on to our next step."