Making a vortex marble

Making a vortex marble. Had to cut out a lot of it to make it fit the time that YouTube allows. More info at www.cosmoglassworks.com

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Howto & Style

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• glass
• marble
• vortex
• lampworking
• borosilicate
• boro
• glassblowing
• cosmo
• glassworks

[raider2661]

is that Phish?

[cosmoglassworks]

@raider2661 Yep. The 1994 New Year's Eve show

[acroduster]

nice work man!-) I love and miss the bacon simmering sound of a carlisle, are you a number3 or number 5 center fire? I envy that big graphite plate, gonna need to get myself one of those.-)

[cosmoglassworks]

It's a #5 center. I wish I had a #3. The big graphite plate came from Winship I believe...

[glasscollective]

Great Job as always Chad. I see the steps but want to know ... once you have the cone and have set the first lines do you twist those or are they twisted a little just burning in and keep the cone? Also when your building up the back and you have the color on do you build up the clear and round before moving to the lens? 5 stars and ty for sharing.

[cosmoglassworks]

It depends. For just a plain vortex, I usually lay the lines down, melt them in, then put on the background color. Then heat it all up and twist it all at the same time. This one is a little different. I twisted it some before I added the background. Form the back half of the marble with clear and round it out before adding the outside color.

[1stPal]

Nice work man , am just curious about what type of torch you are using? that's a one large flame !

[SamHartling123]

Nice Carlise Brotha

[funkfosho]

looks like you might have done that once or twice 8) thnx for sharing

[ReFractalus]

You just blew my mind. Thank you so much for sharing this intimate view of your creative process.

[TheDustyCartridge]

hippie music

[DEAFthief]

did i miss it?? when did you put the twist in it? the only part that's really kickin my ass!! nice vid!

[SKILLErElvurn]

nh

[vegasflyboydotcom]

That is so cool thanks for posting.

[raider2661]

@cosmoglassworks

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[raider2661]

@cosmoglassworks

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