My Timer Driven Life

My Timer-Driven Life

One of my articles has been published! In a fairly obscure e-magazine called Soda Lime Time, a monthly magazine for lampworkers. Anyway I submitted an article, it was accepted, and it was published in this month’s issue. It’s not specifically related to lampworking, so I am republishing it here. My Read more…

Bead pair: aqua encased, with silver glass feathers

My fine feathered friends

Sorry, no, this isn’t going to be about birds. Instead it’s about my current obsession: feathered, also known as “raked”, beads. Okay, okay, it’s just one of my many obsessions but this one has been going on for a while. It started early last year after I attended JC Herrell‘s Read more…

Tip: Pulling shorts

It’s simple enough to do: melt a small amount at the end of the rod (where it was cut), and pull a short thick stringer, about 2mm thick and about 4-5 cm long. Try to make sure that it’s straight in relation to the rod.

…Warm/melt the end of a rod in the same colour and I used to melt and use the stringer handle as well as the short rod, but now I flame cut and throw away the handle.

Matchbox economy

[I wrote this a while ago, but I have finally updated it with photos.] I have collected a whole bunch of matchboxes from one of the cafes in the neighbourhood that was kind enough to leave them lying around. They are small (5.5 x 2.5 x 0.7 cms), but you Read more…

Shocky glass

There is nothing more irritating that a rod of expensive glass that self-destructs when it gets anywhere near a source of heat. No matter how careful you are, it just flies off in little, unusable bits. I have been hoarding some rods of River Rock (Vetrofond 931, once created, never Read more…