Come try it out! We will be hosting an open studio sand-casting event on August 8 so you can come watch, or even get invoived in, the process. For a flat fee you can bring a object of your own to press into the sand and we’ll pour the mold for you! Get a jump [...]
Sand casting glass is oddly seductive although the basics wouldn’t suggest it. The gist is that you have an open pit of sand; you find things to press in it that will create a void to fill, then pour the cavity full with incredibly hot molten glass. It’s dirty, gritty, inexact heavy work with sometimes unpredictable [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So as usual, Jeff Benroth Glass will represent in booth 5515 - Handmade section of NYIGF from August 16-20, 2008. I’ll be there for the meets and greets, and I’ll also show off some new items.
I’ll be bringing the Stripe Vase in a new color - Mandarin - as a result of the color experiments [...]
For all you kids that think your windows rattle because glass is a liquid - think again.
NYT :: The Nature of Glass Remains Anything but Clear - July 29, 2008
So I have a pet peeve about glassblowers who claim that their product is “green”, because there are so many ways to define this and really no universal standards or metric by which this can be judged (yet).
What makes this kind of product eco-friendly, enviro-huggy? On the one hand you can make the case that [...]