As usual, we will have an open studio during Thanksgiving weekend. Come by on Saturday, November 28 from 10-5 for great discounts on glass, demos in the studio, snacks and drinks. Since the casting event in August was so popular we will likely do a demonstration of sand casting for the studio sale as well. [...]
I think the sand-casting event was a success. Everyone enjoyed the process, the glass looked great and we at the studio learned a few things, too. Look for a repeat soon; this was a good intro but everyone was ready for more, and wanting to spread the word…
I’m pleased to say we’ve found a simple way to make some of our stuff available for sale, direct from the studio. We are now set up with BigCartel to offer items that are in stock, with payments made securely though PayPal. We may eventually integrate a shopping cart into the next version of the [...]
David Keeps, home editor for the LA Times, fell in love with our limited-edition cast glass firelogs after our most recent e-blast and decided to put them on the blog for the home section of the Los Angeles Times. Along with Chad DeWitt, who collaborated on these pieces, I’m really pleased to have them featured and [...]
I’ve heard this question so many times… I think the only question more commonly asked of glassblowers is whether we know that guy on PBS with the eyepatch and the curly hair. So here are the basics of color in blown glass, once and for all:
Unless it’s painted or stained somehow, glass gets its hue [...]
How great a name is that? I first met Gay in 2001 when I was assigned as a gaffer to blow glass for her during her visit to A.S.A.P., a long-gone mini-residency program in San Francisco.
Since that time, we have worked on a number of pieces - both blown and kiln-formed - which continue her [...]
One of the “new” things I’m working on is actually a design I’ve brought back from a long time ago; a simple bubble of glass that lies on its side, with a finely polished opening that allows a flower to extend from it at an angle.
I made a few of these sweet little things as [...]
Jeff Benroth Glass will not be exhibiting at NYIGF this January; I had planned to take the winter show off so we can re-evaluate our products and how we present them (more on that below). I will miss seeing many of you at the show and I look forward to getting back to Javits in [...]
It seems like some of the most interesting ideas for new product come from explorations of ideas that have no relation to commercial viability. To wit:
These almond-shaped solid glass elements, with their semi-sharp edge and hand-wrought variations, began as experiments for a possible installation in a gallery with exposed brick walls. In thinking about that [...]
As we do more and more custom restoration projects, we are beginning to amass a collection of interesting molds. They are a great way to produce complex forms, but mold-formed designs also require that replacements be made in the same mold, or one produced to the same specifications. One in particular that has been worthwhile [...]