Malcolm is making coast path pieces today so I thought you might like to see how he prepares all the colour, it takes him ages fiddling about to get it ready before he actually starts blowing.
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| Pulling the cane..................... |
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| ................out of the door! |
Once he has finished pulling the cane he arranges it on the marver and chooses all the other colours that he is going to use.
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| Thin green cane and lines of granulated colours. |
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| Cake tins of colours. |
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Right it's all ready and prepared now so he can start blowing. Depending on how things go, and how large the pieces are, he makes maybe 3 to 5 pieces in a day. After they are taken out the annealer the next day they are sandblasted and put back into the annealer to be fire polished, then out they come again, they are sandblasted again and finally hand polished.
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| Coast Path vase |
Wow! That's cool, I didn't know you had to go all the way out the door to pull the cane. So How many of those strands of glass do you use for one coast path vase (say a 15cm high one)?
ReplyDeleteIn answer to your question Ben, Malcolm can pull about 120 meters of green cane from one ball of solid green colour and that will probably be enough to use in 6 or so vases. It also depends on the size of the pieces he is making too.
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