I am a Great Grandma now, but as a young girl, I was the marble Champ! We played at school and couldn't wait for the bell to ring for recess. We kept our marbles in large coffee cans and to this day, when I smell coffee I get a thrill and think of marbles. Planets, Shooters, Aggies, Steelies, Peeries, PeeWee's, Cat's Eyes...we played "for keeps". When you had a "real " marble, it was made of gemstones or real marble. Everyone played marbles, and the playground had marble circles painted on the ground for the brutal games. They were more prized than gold. If we "lost our marbles" we would roll some out of real clay we dug up from the yard. They were tough to make well and sometimes they would shatter. Sometimes, we would heat the plain glass ones in the oven at home and put them in a bowl of cold water to make them crack, then play a game of "shatters". We rarely did this one unless you had won an excess of them. How I miss the days of NO COMPUTERS and kids playing outside from dawn till dusk!!! I have my marbles and played with my grandchildren and great-great nephew & niece!
@@SuzukaDespintada Get your hands on some marbles and keep them by you...when you are sad, shoot them and think of him and you will smile. You will play again someday!
this guy is a legend 🤣 "the senior blower is back at the glory hole, he has more glass on his rod and has been warming it up because glass blowers have to keep the glass on thier rods hot enough to fiddle with" 🤣🤣🤣 someone give him an award 🏆
"The rod is repeatedly put into the Glory Hole and there's a lot of blowing.." I'm sorry, I'm not grown up enough to not have copious amounts of fun at this.
It only took a little over 11 years for all of us to meet up at this very moment. Thank you RU-vid algorithm. You are as zany and unpredictable as ever.
I'm 64 and was fascinated from a toddler , how they got that twist of colour in there. I would just hold them and study them in wonder. I was still only a toddler and have now been interested in engineering , physics and answers. In all my years on this planet, I've always come back to that problem. I've had many theories, soon discounted by further thought, and just not knowing. I'm amazed at the things life can throw up. After all of this time , I randomly come across this. I'm stunned and so very happy. I feel like one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe has been unveiled...!
What perfect pleasure to read your comment Jay. One of life’s great mysteries finally put to bed, you may go to your grave fulfilled, but not any time soon I hope :)
"The senior blower is back at his glory hole , he has more glass on his rod because glassblowers need to keep the glass on their rods hot enough to fiddle with." How did the narrator get through this without cracking up?
I just wanted to watch something innocent and light hearted, I didn't want to laugh out loud at innuendos like 'the master blower returning to his glory hole'.
@@artdecotimes2942 maybe it is. but it’s a little hard to not laugh when you hear stuff like “the senior blower is back at the glory hole” and then immediatley after, you hear “the blowers must keep the glass on their rods hot enough, to fiddle with”. Especially if it’s out of context
VERY interesting video. I worked for twenty years as a neon glassblower.....very different process as shown here, but still many of the glass-process principles still apply. Rather than the "glory hole" arrangement, we used crossfires, (two opposing fire "jets") to do our work, bending glass tubes of various diameters into shape. I briefly worked with a young glassblower who learned his craft and skills from his father. This fellow was simply amazing in what he could do. He could make perfectly round marbles, with color or "cat's eyes" in the middle, using our crossfires and 6MM tubulation glass. No molds or instruments to manipulate the molten glass....only gravity and the ability to balance the "glob" of glass. I practiced this myself, and was able to make irregular-shaped marbles not perfectly round. I still own (and value) marbles he made. I wish I had a video to post of his method, but I love the memory of watching him work. Thanks for posting this.
"The senior blower is back at the glory hole. He has more glass on his rod, and has been warming it up because glass blowers have to keep the glass on their rods hot enough to fiddle with."
I’m amazed at how much care goes into the seemingly lowly glass marble. I hope that next time we see a marble, we’ll remember that the glass blower literally breathed life into the little masterpieces.
Most marbles are machine-made. They used to be handmade from long rods like this and very elaborate and beautiful. Now only expensive art-marbles are made this way.
Fuckkkkkkk this is possibly the best joke I have made in my entire life.. all moments led to this exact time and I'm 9months too late 😭😭 why Lord, whyyyyyy
I was about 7 years old in primary school, and I always wondered how the marbles were made. That was about 48 years ago. It's nice to see the basic concept of marble making hasn't changed much in all these years! They've been doing marble making for a very long time now, and it's not just marbles that can have glorious colored patterns in them, anything that can be blown or molded from a hot billet of glass can in theory have many different patterns applied to it!
'the senior blower is back at the glory hole, he has more glass on his rod and has been warming it up because glass blowers have to keep the glass on their rods hot enough to fiddle with'
I am 82yrs old, and I still remember playing 'marbles' when I was in grade school. All my marbles were made of glass except for one, my shooting marble, it was made from agate.
2:31 that was nice of Allan Dershowitz to bring his kid. Also, "The senior glass blower is back at the glory hole to put more glass on his rod." This is a documentary, right ? "It has to be hot enough on their rod to fiddle with."
@hell ño Who cares what the correct name of that Furnace is??? - The main point is that they're all a bunch of Gob-seeking Blowers, that have to constantly "fiddle with their hot tools" and "get them longer and longer", whilst trying to "insert Orb's" and the like. Disgusting.
Pretty cool that you are using RU-vid to learn things that interested you as a kid, my grandparents are around that age but they don’t even use flip phones, much less smart phones and computers.
Same here, but at 58 I started blowing glass and now make the marbles I had as a kid! Thanks to RU-vid and online shopping my dream came true!you can too!! Go for it, it’s a blast!
@@michaelmccown6857 sounds like great fun but I have multiple autoimmune disorders and can’t even blow up a party balloon, lol. Watching others do these wonderful creative things and hearing from folks like you brings me joy.
I started using computers to write back when it was a terminal off a mainframe and every period, paragraph returned, etc had a command. Never looked back. Love my IPad! Makes those old terminals look very clunky.
Actually making marbles is not blowing glass it is called lamp working and it sounds like you already have an oxygen machine you’re already on your way just need a torch and some propane! Lol
This video would make for the best party drinking game. Every time the narrator says something that can be turned into a sexual innuendo you have to do a shot.
i literally just thought that to myself as well. Glassworks are the most fascinating type of artistry, I'm constantly drawn to it. In fact I've collected many glass pieces over the years. It definitely makes dusting (and moving) fun.
Marbles were ubiquitous when I was a kid - they were everywhere, bags of 'em. Now, decades later, I can't even remember the last time I saw a marble in the wild! 😞
This was filmed at The House Of Marbles in Devon, England, they also have a little museum, a large wall with a marble run, they have a cafe and sell loads of different glass wear and other things, it's lovely!
"The senior blower is back at the glory hole. He has more glass on his rod, and has been heating it up"... Whoever wrote the navigation for this is a massive troll 😂
Ooooh dear...I could just imagine children and their parents sitting down together to watch this back in the day...when words like GLORY HOLE , GOB AND NOB started to be used...I know I couldn't control my self and would have to leave the room...and I'm pretty sure those weren't MARBLES but probably PAPER WEIGHT'S for some executive's desk!!!.😂😂💕🇬🇧
Forget the smutty innuendo! Admire skills of the glass artist, marvel at the astonishing complexity of the process and be amazed at the time and effort that goes in to producing one sphere of coloured glass. And to all those non-Brits and callow youths who imagine the narrator was innocently oblivious- google the phrase 'tongue in cheek'.
It's like in production they realized that there's no way around these innuendos, so they put all their effort into embracing it, but going just far enough to not overdo it. The sweet spot of innuendos.
"Beeswax is a very important lubricant for the workers hot tool..." I wasn't going to comment cuz I thought everything was pretty much covered. But when I didn't see this one mentioned ,I figured I would chime in. Who wrote the text that the narrator is reading? Hugh Hefner?
