Escape the Ordinary: Lampworking Boro Vortex Marbles Episode 9

[@natejohn3398]

Thank you bill!

[@jameslminix6428]

I love your videos and talent. Perfect content to enjoy my breakfast with... happy holidays to you and yours.

[@WilliamGrout]

So nice of you! All the best to you and yours.

[@michaelkmiec5842]

I’ve only been doing it for a little over a year so these long form vids are extremely helpful

[@WilliamGrout]

I am so glad if this is helpful! Even after 30 years working glass I find little gems in other artists videos.

[@airforcerob]

fascinating! i think the trickiest part is not getting air trapped in the cane tentacles....any tips you would give? it seemed like you kept the heat close to the base of the lens and kept turning. Also, what are you doing with the butter knife on the backing? are you cooling the design and embedding it deeper to keep it from boiling? great stuff again!

[@WilliamGrout]

Ok yes first off minimizing air entrapment is a high priority but small bubbles are to a degree going to happen. You just have to give the glass enough time to flow and of course it will not flow unless it is hot enough! So often we want to get heat into the depths and not so much on the outside and that is always going to be a compromise. I move fairly fast with this one but yes I am trying to heat the clear to get the heat behind the "tentacles". The butter knife on the backing is pressing the sides in from where the color has ripped apart instead of flowing together while raking. This can happen with not enough heat base or too hot of a flame or moving too fast or some mystery of glass I have yet to master. I do this a ton and it still escapes me what is the root cause of this tearing. Cheers!

[@ActivistTigers]

Thank you for the video. I am 40 mins in, any suggestions to use other than frit? I am just starting out & have 0 frit.

[@WilliamGrout]

You can certainly pull out color into stringers and apply that in stripes or a spiral. Or skip some steps like that and focus on a dense color pattern on the back.

[@ActivistTigers]

@@WilliamGrout Alright, will do. Thank you!