How to Flatten a Glass Cane Disc

Video Transcript

"Okay, so now that we have our disc we are going to take it back out of the kiln and light up our torch and get it hot again and then I am going to take the parallel mashers here and we are going to try to mash it flat. Now using a marver like I did there will help your glass, like I said, keep its color as opposed to letting the flame do all the work for you because the flame can do what I just did and ball the glass up into a disc or a glob but you run the risk of burning the colors actually out of the glass so using your instruments definitely helps the colors stay. Alright so we have got this pretty hot and now I am going to smash it down, kind of shape it here. Alright see that is still pretty thick in there and that is what we want and we have got enough area here to get us a nice stringer. Alright so we have flattened it out, flattened our disc."