Making a lampworked icicle ornament from borosilicate glass

This is just a quick video showing how I make my icicle ornaments. I used borocilicate glass, specifically: Simax flat rod clear for the body of the icicle and TAG Red Blizzard for the color stripes, and pre-made glass loops (the things I'm fishing around on my work surface for), also made from Simax clear. The torch I am using is a Carlisle MiniCC running propane and tanked oxygen. The clicking sound is my kiln cycling on and off. Let me know what you think. It's not really meant as a tutorial or anything, just a quick video to show how I make glass icicles.

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Howto & Style

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• lampwork
• flamework
• borosilicate
• glass
• icicle
• maggs
• creations

[maggscreations]

I used my miniCC for three years before I outgrew it. It does do Boro, but it does not have a tight pinpoint flame, which means that if you're doing a lot of sculptural work where you might want to get the flame into a small spot to make a join stronger can get tricky. It will do small hollow work, but if you want to do anything larger than 12mm tubing or about 10-12mm rod, it takes a long time. For small pendants and little bottles, the minicc works fine.

[VillageWasherWenches]

I use a R max w/premixed top torch and would not have the patience w/o the big torch. Also its not convenient to change the tip but can be done to achieve a tighter flame or even go bigger than a minicc. The mini is a very quality made torch.

[sev07pass]

I'll think I'll be getting a mini cc here pretty soon, It looks strong enough to work with borosilicate, do you have any problems with it?