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[johnm]

I've always liked to watch glass blowers do their thing (especially scientific pieces) and although there's no blowing in this, I'm still impressed with the results.



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[silvertop]

Very nice!  I have a number of glass tops, but they mostly spin fairly poorly, and none are this colorful.  Most of them were made for me because I requested them from glass worker friends.

[Neff]

Those look really neat.  I got this one at a marble show last year:

[Jag O Twister]

Great video!!!! Thanks for posting it.

[Lourens]

I am back from a holiday after working for such a long time on my book.
Now I look what has happened on the Ta0-forum since! During my holiday me and Ria, my wife, have travelled through the South of Germany, Swiss, Austria and Czechia this summer. One of the first days we visited the Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein. Their collection has also many items from the famous Ray and Charles Eames! Outside the museum was a demonstration of 'The Glass Lab' from New York-state. I think these boys are very famous in designing glass. They were invited by the Vitra-museum for a week to show their abillities with glass in all kinds of shapes. Just at the moment we arrived they started making two spinning tops; one larger and one smaller one. I talked with them ans  a designer and off course tried to achieve one of these toips. But unfortunately it was not for sale, all the experiments in this week were meant for the Vitra-museum. Can you imagine that the whole Glass-Lab travels in two containers by airplane from the US?
I found a  recording on you tube (not from Vitra and not from spinning tops but you see the Glass Lab:
Lourens.

[johnm]

another makers approach

[ta0]

Interesting fabrication process. Thanks for posting it.  I have never worked with glass and I am surprised how many steps it required of attaching and removing rods.  I would have guessed that it could be made from a single glob of glass at the end of a rod, but I must be wrong.