» Glass http://adammwood.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:22:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Glass Pendant Necklace http://adammwood.com/2010/02/glass-pendant-necklace/ http://adammwood.com/2010/02/glass-pendant-necklace/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:44:19 +0000 Adam http://adammwood.com/?p=368 Here’s a shot of a necklace I made today.  It’s a present for a special someone for Valentines Day.  My blog readers will get a sneak peak though.

Glass Pendent on a necklace

It’s made with a pendant I blew a few days ago for this necklace. The rest of the necklace was parts bought from a local bead store. I like it and hope that others will to as it dangles from my valentines neck.

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Lampworking is the type of glass blowing that I do in which I stand or sit (not usually) in front of a hot oxyacetylene torch that runs at very high temperature. I usually use borosilicate glass which begins to soften around 1510 °F and anneals at around 1050°F in a kiln. There is other types of glass to use with lampworking but it’s borosilicate that I’ve been using and am used to so far.

This (below) is a picture of a borosilicate fish that I blew for my sisters boyfriend for Christmas.

I have more glass to look at on my Gallery page. My roommate took photos of me recently blowing glass but he’s been lazy with getting them to me to post on here. Soon (if I can motivate him)!

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