Twisting Heated Glass Beads

Video Transcript

"So as we alternate as we go all the way up it should look really good at the end there with a nice wavy design in it which looks like, you know you could do it when you put the glass on there, but it would be very, very difficult and definitely when you do it like this you get to keep the shape and the form which is key. It's also good to leave a little bit of it not twisted so you can, you know make sure, because you can see it when it's twisted but it's good to have a variation to go by, like oh that's what it was supposed to look like you know. Alright so we've got a pretty good twist happening here to the bottom and now I'm going to go to the top here and we're going to leave the space in between where we were working and at the top here straight so we can have something to kind of reference the turning by and make it look cool. Flame a little bit. I'm going to twist this last twist to the right with my right hand. So we have our design here at the end now and we've twisted it all and twisted it up. Now basically you might say what is this for and like what kind of decal can I use this for exactly. Now to let you know what you can do with this type of design, is you can pull off small sections of this rod I created here with these crazy swirls in it as it appears. You can create pendants. You can take this and stretch it out and you can make it a bead or a ring, or you can stretch it out and apply it to things, or you can apply it as is to things although I don't think my torch is big enough to do that, but that definitely would give you that swirly line design and that's how it looks in the end."