Yeah, it’s finally happening. Everyone says, “you could make a lamp out of that!” Well, no, I theoretically could, but i don’t. I can make glass for lighting, though, and that’s what we’re finally getting around to doing.
In collaboration with 100Watt Network, I have designed some new glass pieces which will be the foundation for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]