Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for August 19, 2020

Actually, glass blowing that way is a very dangerous job. Inhale just a little bit and your lungs are burnt history. Many people have died in that industry. (The melting point of glass is fantastically high.)

he’s lookin’ a bit glassy-eyed…

Glass-working can be a real pane.

Maybe. It depends on your goal.

Shouldn’t it at least be coming out his nose?

Blow it fool !

I’m confused… Can you say “he blew it”, when he didn’t? Or did he?

Anyway, I’m sending this to a glassblower I know.

Everything was hot, hot, hot!!!

Check out the pane in his stomach.

Looks like a handy covid protector, way better than a mask!

Oy

According to Wikipedia, the earliest form of glassblowing was invented by Mrs. Cedric Glass of Liverpool, England…I’m sure she had her reasons.

just need to put a one way valve in the tube.

At least he’s in the bubble.

He’s making a spectacle of himself

I worked in clear fused quartz its working temperature was 3600 degrees F.

If travel ever gets back to at least semi-normal, and anyone has an itch to go to Venice, take a side trip to the island of Murano. They make some of the most beautiful crystal, and, to my knowledge, still in the old tradition of blowing the glass.

That’s how you get a pane in the stomach.