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Hi, my name’s Ed Donovan and I am here at DC GlassWorks. You can find us at dcglassworks.com. We are a public access glassblowing facility, we also do metal and metal casting and welding. We are primarily a teaching facility. We want to share with people the magic of glassblowing, it’s an amazing substance and today, I’m going to be talking to you about glassblowing. Uh, how to choose a glassblowing kit. Uh, there’s not a lot of options. Um, your hand tools, there’s a, a few really quality makers. Uh, again, you’re probably gonna want to do a web search to find some uh retail outlets for the tools that uh that are made for glassblowers. They’re pretty highly specialized, they’re fairly expensive, um your, your tools are all sold individually, so there’s not really a kit per se. Uh, but basically what you want your jacks, uh and they come in a couple of different sizes but your standard size would be a nine inch blade. Uh, your tweezers which also come in uh three different sizes or there are even more than that but your typical medium size tweezers uh, one straight sheer, uh again a medium sheer size uh, and then again, the diamond sheer uh is a is a standard, there’s three sizes for those uh small, medium, large. You would probably choose a medium. So your standard kit for glassblowing uh includes those four basic hand tools and if you set those up on your bench you should be able to do pretty much um all of the beginning and even the most of the, most advanced uh aspects of glassblowing with the basic set-up kit.

1. Introduction to Glassblowing
2. What Tools Do You Need?
3. How to Find a Class
4. How to Find a Job
5. How to Pick a Kit
6. How to Rent a Studio
7. Where Is the Best Glassblowing Museum?
8. How Much Do Glassblowing Artists Make?
9. Is Glassblowing School Necessary?
10. How to Use a Blow Pipe
11. 6 Tips, Tricks & Techniques
12. How to Shape Glass
13. 4 Glory Hole Tips
14. How to Use Puffers & Steam Sticks
15. How to Use Tweezers to Shape Glass
16. How to Use Jacks & Pacioffis
17. How to Use Diamond & Straight Shears
18. How to Get Started
19. History of Glassblowing
20. What is Glass Art?
21. History of Handblown Glass
22. Can Glassblowing Be Done at Home?
23. Glassblowing Safety
24. How Hot Does the Glass Get?
25. How to Pick Supplies
26. How to Dress for Class
27. How to Marver Glass
28. How to Decorate Handblown Glass
29. How to Use Newspaper as Heat Protection
30. How to Handle Hot Handblown Glass
31. How to Handle Fallen Molten Glass
32. How to Color Handblown Glass
33. How to Use Blocks & Paddles
34. How to Blow Glass with Todd Hansen
35. How to Blow Glass with Ed Donovan

Learn about glassblowing from pros Todd Hansen and Ed Donovan in these Howcast videos.