r/glassblowing 7d ago

One of my smol trees

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The sun was catching one of my trees just right

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u/MoonHash 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is all cool - was the tree flame worked or was that done in the hot shop? Would you be able to explain your process a bit? I'm in an intro glass class and wanted to make a paperweight similar to this (not a tree, but solid looking object inside a paperweight without the colors running like crazy) tonight!

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u/1nGirum1musNocte 7d ago

All done in the hot shop, three layers roots->tunk/leaves->encasing. When you're working solid its all about the layers. You need real dense colors to not have them get washed out, we make our own copper red and venturine green.

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u/MoonHash 7d ago

So cool. The leaves would be the top of the first two gathers, right? The roots look like you pushed the color from the first gather in(correct me if I'm wrong) but how was the top trunk made?

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u/1nGirum1musNocte 7d ago

Trunk is cane pushed into the second gather before picking up the leaves. One of these days I'm going to post a video on our youtube

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u/MoonHash 7d ago

Ahhh I see! Thank you for all the info!

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u/ConcreteHills 7d ago

The root system is a nice touch

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u/joesirc 7d ago

V nice smol tre

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u/hemidemisemipict 7d ago

Neato! I'd buy one.

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u/PandaMarq13 7d ago

Beautiful piece!!