Notes from Camp-full-o-fun.

Well, actually its not camp.  I am in Seattle with the spouse checking out the Pacific Northwest.  Yesterday we took the opportunity to get a four hour lesson in glass working.  We made paperweights, apples, a blown sphere, and a blown bowl.  Not exactly an ashtray and a lanyard, but it was a bit like camp.  Having taken a scientific glassblowing class back in my undergrad days I thought I had some sense of how this work would be.  Well, torch work making condensers from pyrex tubing is nothing like pulling molten glass from a furnace and shaping it into something that resembles what you had in your mind.  I now have a better appreciation for why hand made glass objects cost what they do.

T.S. Hall