That's kinda what they are there for. To teach people and show how glass art is made and to not let glass crafting die. Beware the glass bug my friend. For once you are bitten, you will never see the world the same again.
I don’t understand how people think Nicole was mean. She’s direct and concise, which is what you need to be in a time sensitive and inherently dangerous operation.
Actually she was really good. Im learning glass blowing right now and its really hard and unforgiving. It takes a lot of practice to even make an "open piece" like a bottle.
In this video we didn't mention the secondary ingredient, flux, that is usually needed in order to be able to work with glass, due to time constraints we were under at the time. Check out our updated video on attempting to make eyeglasses, where we cover sourcing this ingredient as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ef2_aaYpZSI.html
she did a great job training him. with these kinds of potentially dangerous crafts, you want a teacher who can be firm and tells you exactly what to do
I love the idea of your videos. Production values are fantastic. However you are missing some elements that could improve the quality AND give you more content. Your execution is falling short. First, get into the details. The part about collecting sand was kinda worthless. It is just you putting sand into a bucket and walking away. Then that sand was essentially unusable. A discussion of why it was unusable (not just a general "impurities) would be enlightening. You had to use the glass factory's prepared sand. How is it prepared? What kind of work goes into it. When you discuss clay containers that is a good discussion to have too. These should be your starting videos. How to collect the raw materials and prepare them. You did a great job with the suit videos discussing those aspects. Second, the tools are important. Discussing the hollow tube and what and how it is made. Discussing the furnaces. You could do a whole series on how glass was made through the ages and how modern techniques were developed. You could build your own furnace and set up a small glass shop. Then for the capstone video you could go to a modern set up like this and do the work. Contacting manufacturers public relations could probably get you in to do some shots of factories and interviews with their engineers. How Its Made is great at covering the actual manufacturing but you could get deeper into the how and why and even just make an episode on that. You might even be able to wrangle visits to their suppliers to do videos on the whole supply chain. Third, ask questions of your experts. Discuss the techniques with them. Do an interview set up and ask questions. Use the answers as additional narration and as extra content (click here to see our full interview with Jane Glassblower). Write down questions as you observe their work. There are a lot of good questions you can ask any expert about their tools: why they are shaped certain ways, what are their uses, explain some of the technical terms (ex from this video: jack line), and so on. Fourth, work on your personal presence. Your natural speaking voice is not suited to narration and documentary work. Listen to famous narrators (Mike Rowe, Morgan Freeman, various newsmen etc) and work on your narrator voice. Your posture and stance while on camera could also be improved. Improving both will give your videos a boost that makes them feel much more professional because you will look and sound more professional. Your cameraman could try to frame you out during portions when someone else is doing work and you are just standing there. Your concept is great and even if you take none of my advice I will still watch your future videos.
+alecthemad Thanks for the great feedback! We will definitely take it into consideration as we continue to develop the style of the show...we do plan to make some followup videos around this one, to go a bit deeper into the process.
+How To Make Everything I would have disagree. I would prefer you keep your videos as they are. As a casual watcher my goal isn't to learn "How to make a Bottle." That information is easily attained in detail elsewhere. I prefer watching an everyday sort of guy attempt something most people fail to appreciate or take for granted. There is a charm to the novice approach your videos take.
+How To Make Everything This is the first video of yours I've watched; as someone who saw and was attracted by merely the channel and video names I have to agree. When I clicked I expected and was interested in a "how-to" for me, perhaps in a more improvised setting, rather than a sort of "how-it's made" style show; this may be a branding and wording issue, primarily. I'm saying it sends mixed messages to newcomers and potential subscribers. Please make it clear. I won't bother to tell you how it's inadequate as a how to (mind that I've only watched the one video, and am saying this purely as friendly advice), because it isn't at all and doesn't attempt to be. You could make it into one and keep what you already have, by inserting pertinent information between segments and having you try to do whatever by yourself afterwards, with commentary over it. Of course in that sort of thing you would be well off to explain how to make the basic multi-purpose tools and such.
+sydney Wilkinson sorry to disagree with you but the show is called how to make everything which implies it's an educational video. He's curious as to how things are made and with that curiousity comes understanding what goes behind what people do, this isn't the simple life.
This episode felt much more polished than earlier ones. you've obviously learned a lot about putting a coherent video together. Good Job! Your work really showed and I look forward to seeing more.
I worked for Owen's Illinois glass Company for 36.5 years making bottles and jars. Making them in mass production today is 95% different from this video. Go to the museum in Corning NY if you want to see some really cool things made from glass. Go to a glass factory and do a video, you'd be amazed. Roy
why does the subtitles say "girl worker" when he introduced her by name? also i don't get why people are saying she was rude, she was completely normal.
You should've went to NJ for the sand. We're known for having the best glass making sand. Our beaches have (some had) the best sand in the world, not even lying it's a special kind of sand
Well you have to clarify that the sand from beach lacks certain compounds like Sodium carbonate and calcium oxide that are natural flux loweing melting temperature.
can you melt glass bottles and then reshape it into something else? and I'm talkin about without adding anything else to it just melt it and pour it into a mold.
Travis Carod yes, you can. if you break the glass into shards, you can re-melt it and slump it into a mold, or if your glass was made with soda ash as a flux, it'll keep it's lowered melting point, and you can blow it into a different shape.
would be interested in knowing what type of fire you need to heat the sand, seeing as different fuels and methods reach different temperatures, i doubt you could melt sand by simply burning wood. You could do a video on making coal, seeing as coal burns hotter than wood (oddly enough seeing as it's made from wood) and has a lot more industrial uses.
