A re-visit video to my older (and blurrier) Feathered Heart tutorial. This video shows how to make a twisted ribbon heart pendant. This heart was made using soft glass (104 COE), but it can also be done in Boro.
Jeanne passed away in 2018. It’s her daughter who has kept these videos up and going. Jeanne was such a great teacher! Thank You for keeping these videos on for all of us to continue learning from!
Thank you. I know these videos have helped me. I feel more confident learning the small things...the little techniques you don't realize like how to add glass in certain spots, "pulling-out" ends, calmly re-punting a piece etc. When I see you do these things so nonchalantly it is very helpful.
I dont mean to be off topic but does any of you know of a way to get back into an instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my login password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me!
@Lewis Judah I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
It's fun to play around with those. I think they have a blue that works the same way, so you don't get those red flakes in it! Hey, I see you have a spinning top mold - do you make tops? Do you make them with soft glass? I can only make a good one with boro.
Not sure if I heard it right but when you finished the pendant you said now it can go right in the kiln, was that correct? Do you now have to kiln it? Sorry, noobie.
With all glass, the outside will cool down faster than the inside leading to lots of internal stress. By using a kiln to keep it at a certain temp (960ish for soft glass) for a while to let all the internal steppes work out and then slowly cools the kiln down (couple degrees every x min, it differs based on the exact glass) it makes the glass much more resilient.
Thank you! :) I was ill for a few months, but now that I'm back to work, I've been slammed with orders. I am hoping to get something done within the next month or so - - hopefully!!
Hi! I've been watching your videos lately because I've gotten into lampworking as a kind of intermediate to a larger goal of mine, ending in a (hopefully) business! You mentioned on one of your videos to add you on fb and I can't remember which one. Would it be okay if I added you? I'd appreciate it greatly =] thanks in advance!
Thanks Shannon - - my business FB page is Jean's Beads (with that heart logo on my video as the avatar). I think it's more of a "like this page" instead of "adding me".
Just recently became interested in the way glass, all glass... is shaped and handled. I luv your hours of experience...you do know, you make it look easy, right? lol When I find something like this now, I have the appreciation for the way it was made which really matters to me.
I have been watching your videos constantly because I want to pursue glass blowing but only to make beads and small pendants because of my eye condition. When you first first started out which torch did you use ? I'm going to be buying the bead making start kit off of Moutain Glass and it comes with a hothead torch, is that a good one too start off with
Hi Domz, Thanks for watching my videos!! :) There were actually 2 stages to my glass career. I first started way back in 1995 with borosilicate glass, which was a different torch (hotter torch), then I started soft glass (which most of these videos are with) in 2005-6. I believe you want the soft glass torch. I worked on a hot-head (cheap) torch, but only for a VERY short time since it was noisy and took too long to melt the glass. After about a week of that torch, I ordered a Nortel Minor. I used that one for several years and then went to the Mega Minor, which is basically the same size, but might have a slightly larger flame. Similar torches would be the Bethlehem Alpha, the GTT Lynx torch, a Carlisle Mini CC, etc. All are decent torches for bead work like I have here in my videos, some people just have preferences of one over another, but all are good. Trying out the Hot Head can give you a feel for glass, to see if you like it, etc., but it is MUCH slower at melting the glass, so you might get impatient (like I did, lol!). Have fun!!!
I have a Bethlehem Bravo torch now (just using the center flame of it for most of these videos), but also used a Nortel Minor for years and years (and still have it!).
Haha, I don't have the facilities for a multi-person shop (in my hot garage!). But I am teaching at SW Art Glass in Phoenix. They also have open torch nights and rental torch times, too.
