This was such a PITA!!! My bead release had the gall to break free on the mandrel while I was making the bead, so the bead was spinning around on it's own while I was trying to rotate it in the flame to shape and create it. GRRRR!!!
Iron Mountain Jewelry is a one person glass studio in sunny (sweltering) Bulverde, TX, in the hillcountry just north of San Antonio. I'm a self-taught lampworker who works full-time in an Interventional Radiology Lab and only get to play with hot, moulten glass when I've been good. Or when I can run fast enough to get away from my department. I've been playing with glass now for about 20 months, but if you add up the actual time, it's more like 8 or 9. I WANT SOME MORE!!!!!!