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Super cool OP. I grew up making beads in the shed with my dad on an OXY/PROPANE rig, always wanted to do proper glassblowing, but the costs are prohibitive. My dad loved glass, he probably had $50k worth of pieces in our house growing up, mostly traded for electrical work on Seattle area artist's studios. He met Chihuly a couple times, said the dude was an rear end in a top hat. I did get to take one class about a year ago right at the incipient stage of the pandemic. I'm very interested in the lampwork stuff you posted, seams like a cool technique that bridges the gap between solid working and glass blowing. Here's my girlfriend blowing some glass:  E: hhow do you anneal your lamp worked stuff? So you use an oven or just a good insulator?
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That's cool stuff, I never drove that deep into any of it. I do remember having this cool gold-fleck rod, that I could not get to loving melt, no matter how low a flame I used and how long I warmed it up it would just explode every time it was moved into the flame.
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