Glassblowing

so Ive been taking a glass blowing class for about 3 weeks now, 3 hours a week and Im actualyl gettting pretty good at it. it's a lot harder than I thought it would be but I've really been loving it. I want to take a private class once I get better at it, proably by the end of the 8 week course, do you think they would let me make pipes/bongs????? anyone do this b4? thanks

The glass blowing studio in my town is cool with that but they encourage you to make a variety of objects and discourage people just sitting there making pipes all day.

^^ makes sence, i can really only afford to rent it out for an hour privatly - with someone assisting me, and i have been making a lot of other things like a cup- which was more like a shot glass, a paper wieght turned out pretty good and a ornament. next week im gonna make a cup w a handle yayy so hopefully the studio i go to wont have a problem with it
thanks stinky
do u do glassblowing? if so isnt it amazing! im so excited about it

Not yet, but I'm looking into it. I'm just hoping to learn flamework at this point. It's simple and the equipment is farily inexpensive to set up a home studio.

It would be cool if they did let you make what you want to make, whether it be a bong or vase.

I make glass and honestly, pipes bubblers and anyhollow object wether its a bong or a jewlery piece is alot harder, than say a solid peice or a cup or a plate, realy you can slump these objects; not need a flame at all. I would think a pipe or bong would be like a final or a mid-term, It all depends on how you are making glass from elements or tube, personaly for bongs and bubblers (only things I make) Tube is more practable, however their are many different ways to make glass peices. I dont use a lathe yet but mabey after a while, as of right now I just make percolators and ice catchers, and nuthin over about 2 feet high so I dont need a lath just yet.

This is so cool! I have been dying to study glass blowing since I was a teenager. I've done stained glass for many years, which doesn't involve making glass, just cutting it and sectioning it together. And I've taken pottery and sculpting. I really need to try glass-blowing one of these days. I don't know that it's even offered here in Dallas. If it is, I haven't yet found out where.

420MissHighTimes420, have you ever seen the work of Dale Chihuly? He's an absolutely incredible glass artist from Seattle. Only has vision in one eye and so relies on his gaffer more than other artists. Still, he's incredibly gifted. To see a Chihuly exhibit is like going to heaven. I aspire to own a Chihuly piece, just a tiny one, someday. That's so awesome that you're learning that art, 420Miss!

I've always wanted to try glassblowing, as well. I have some weird things in my head that just would work out perfectly as glass and not as anything else, glass and dye-acrylic.

One of my friends is a professional glass blower. He goes to places like Burning Man and Hookaville and he can literally make THOUSANDS, no more than 4,000 he says, from just one visit from selling his glass.

He said for 250 bucks he can give me unlimited lessons. Is that worth it??

I'd pay $250 for unlimited lessons any day....me and my girlfriends fall back plan if college doesnt work out is learning to blow glass and open a head shop then just go to festivals all the time. Not exactly my lifes dreams and abitions but it would be a pretty fun life.

Eh i dont know, i guess if you showed that you were indeed interested in glass blowing as an art and not just pipes they shouldnt say anything if you make a pipe or three. In high school when i had ceramics class, i did good enough at all the projects and curriculum that the guy didnt really give a fuck what i made in my spare time, its not like the principal was gonna open the kiln and dive in haha. I made a very nice ceramic glazed stone pipe as well as a quite colorful sherlock and never got any shit for it because i was good at the other stuff as well. i think the same would apply for glassblowing.