Pipe Making

Step-by-step instructions for creating a flameworked pipe shaped like a kraken (octopus).

Step-by-step tutorial on how to produce a flameworked inside-out pipe.

Step-by-step instructions for making and decorating a pipe.

A resource for tutorials and information on flameworking. The magazine publishes specific functional glass issues as well as collaborative issues which feature tutorials and glass art made by functional glass artists.

Some pipe making tutorials, but also a resource for tutorials including decorative techniques such as wig wag, fuming, opal inclusions, vortexes, implosions, dot stacks, and more.

The bubbler with a side car involves silvering, application of color, making a mouth piece, stme, chalice, maria downstem, and millefiori. The second object, a hammer shaped pipe, has latticino, inside/outside color, and open tubes. Filmed at the A & S Studios, in Garbervllle, CA. Annotation by Kelly Doeing.

Basics of blowing and forming borosilicate glass spoon pipe, using silvering, color application, punties and pulling.. Includes safety tips (ventilation, oxygen storage), torches, kilns, and tools. Annotation by Kelly Doeing.

"The water pipes are fully worked from top to bottom. No lathe work. Hand blown in the torch. Video covers advanced techniques for pulling latticinios, working with dichroic, and crafting double walled pull bowls. A two foot tall water pipe is created." The base is cased, and incorporates dichroic glass. Various techniques include twisting cane, making tubes, silvering.