Again in March one in all my clients requested me if I may educate her the way to pull vitrigraph. I like making vitrigraph so I had no downside instructing a primary vitrigraph class. The principle cause is persons are a bit scared to the touch molten glass – I don’t perceive why – LOL. First, I needed to indicate her what you are able to do with vitrigraph, cane, and murrine.
I needed to indicate her what instruments (pots, hemostats, cutters, gloves, and many others). We talked about that are my favourite gloves and pots.
As a result of Janice was coming over at a sure time and I didn’t need her to attend, and I didn’t need it to it come to quick I did a check run to see how lengthy the pot takes to be prepared to drag (1.5 hrs) and the way lengthy it took me to drag (1 hr). I take advantage of plenty of inexperienced, so I made a decision on inexperienced. moreover, I like my inexperienced extraordinarily then for branches and stems.
I appeared by my accessible vitrigraph and I don’t have plenty of pink so I needed to construct her a pink pot however I additionally needed her to have the ability to make twisties, so I put whit in as nicely. It was a fantastic pot.
I needed to provide Janice loads of vitrigraph to select from, so I acquired out all my 96 vitrigraph. She may buy as a lot as she needed. She lives in Arizona, so she didn’t select a lot.
Right here is Janice pulling vitrigraph. She did a fantastic job. It’s therapeutic to me and to be trustworthy a cool – pulling scorching liquid glass from a kiln.
Among the strategies I confirmed her is skinny, bulbs, curvy, cane, twist, springs, and many others. Under you’ll be able to see the inexperienced and pink (which she pulled).
I additionally needed to have her construct a pot. Because the first 2 pots had been strips standing up, I needed to do layers. I’m lazy so I don’t like to chop 35 circles of various sizes we did it the way in which beneath. Clearly, we didn’t pull it whereas she was right here, however we did get all of it prepared whereas she was right here.
Janice additionally introduced this cleaning soap dish that had huge devit and requested me the way to repair it. There are 3 methods to repair devit 1- sandblast, 2- tremendous spray, and 3- powder. I needed her to have the ability to take it together with her so we sandblasted it. I confirmed her how to do this. Then we talked about the way to hunch it – which depends on if she desires it shiny or mate.
If you want to take a category. Please let me know (elegantfusedglass@gmail.com) when you’ve got any questions or wish to have a personal fused glass class all you want is 3 folks to create a category (most of 5). ** Vitrigraph class most is 2. Right here is the pull from the pot that Janice and I constructed.
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Karen