Mark Lauckner Glass Tutorials

Hot Glass Casting & Blowing Topics

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H-28 (Coming soon)

H-27 Pressed Dishware

Hand-pressing dishware from a variety of molds

H-26 Ring Holders

Making ring holders with the 40-pound furnace

H-25 Glass Flowers

Using the 40-pound furnace to make glass flowers

H-24 Glass Leaves

Using the 40-pound furnace for glass leaves

H-23 Murine and Millefiori making

Using the 40-pound furnace to produce patterned canes

H-22 Building a Cane Vise

Designing and building a very useful hot glass tool

H-21 Decorating Blown Glass with Sheet Glass

Using compatible coloured sheet glass in glassblowing

H-20 Making Mushrooms

3 gathers, no reheating. Mushroom garden ornaments in just a few minutes.

H-19 Hot Glass Casting intro (Part 1 of 8)

Part 1 of 8 tutorials covering different aspects of hot glass casting

H-18 Hot Glass Casting (2 of 8)

Shaping hot-poured forms

H-17 Preparing Casting Sand (3 of 8)

The mixing and moistening of hot glass casting sand

H-16 Sand Casting Methods for Hot Glass (4 of 8)

Different sand forming techniques for hot glass casting

H-15 Sand-Cast Bowls (5 of 8)

Pouring glass onto convex sand surfaces

H-14 Hot Glass Casting with Color (6 of 8)

Adding color to hot glass pours

H-13 Hot Glass Core Casting (7 of 8)

Creating holes in hot-poured glass

H-12 Hot Glass Casting with Inclusions (8 of 8)

Inserting metal fasteners and decorations into hot-poured glass

H-11 Making Twisted Ribbon Canes

Quickly making canes with the 40-pound furnace

H-10 Heart Canes in Minutes

Using the 40-pound furnace to make quick pattern canes

H-9 Bottle Stoppers

2-gathers, no reheats. Free-form and molded

H-8 Marble Stands

2-gather 2-minute marble stands for displaying marbles

H-7 Air-trap Paperweights

making air trap forms to trap paperweight bubbles

H-6 Furnace Marbles

2-gather decorated marbles in 3 minutes

H-5 Hanging Suncatcher Drops

2 gathers, 3 minutes. Great little gift item

H-4 Flower Napkin Rings

These take about a minute to make

H-3 Blowing Bullseye Glass

Using sheet glass to color blown glass

H-2 Dichroic Swirled Paperweights

6 minute paperweight, no reheats.

H-1 Jellyfish Paperweights

Using glass powders to decorate paperweights.

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