Welcome to my summer lamp working studio. I work with City gas and an oxygen concentrator. My glass is mostly moretti or scrap class that I find or friends give me.
My lamp working station with home made arm rests (cigar boxes). The top of the table is an old door protected with pieces of thick aluminum flashing. I drilled holes in a wood block to hold the mandrels. I only make lampworked beads in the summer when I can have the windows open and the air moving.
The workshop. I batch anneal and when the kiln is on the area around it is cleared!
Glass shards
Stringers pulled from scrap glass
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Disk beads and silvered glass. I wear a respirator when I am working with fine silver in the torch.
Here I’ve mixed blue and green scraps and added some silver. I don’t know the COE of these glasses but they behave similarly and I think they must be very close in COE if not the same.
More beads
My home made mashers (rebent barbeque tongs)
From the Dollar Store, these also work as mashers but you have to quench them in water to keep the glass from sticking.
I’ve made a lot of beads this summer. I even like some of them. I will share them with you in a later post.
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