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Kids Math-Based Craft Project based on New Glassblowing Mold Design

I started work on a custom 6-sided steel glassblowing mold, based on a pyramid (faceted cone). In the process I uncovered a quick and easy math-based craft project which you may find suitable for your...

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Karl Carter – Glassblowing Exercises at Bucks County Community College (BCCC)

I just added links to two YouTube videos made by Karl Carter at BCCC which demonstrate excellent student glassblowing exercises “Pulling Stems” Glassblowing Exercise “One Gather One Reheat”...

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Glassblowing Furnace Crucible Planter

Tonight I added a new fun page — Glassblowing Crucibles used as planters! Tony Patti www.glassblower.info gaffer@glassblower.info

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Steven J. Kellogg Blacksmith makes Glassblowing Raking Tool

When we visited Cooperstown NY this summer, nearby The National Baseball Hall of Fame) is the The Farmers Museum While there, Steven J. Kellogg Blacksmith made me a custom Glassblowing Raking Tool (in...

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Ten Years is a Long Time! (origins of www.glassblower.info)

When I was looking at the home page of www.glassblower.info, I noticed the date range of the visitor counter, a print-screen is shown here: What caught my eye was the 2002 date — now that we’re into...

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Today is a LUCKY Day!

While digging to plant more Hibiscus moscheutos (see photos from my garden below), my shovel hit what I thought was a rock, but after digging up this “rock”, instead I found my Good Luck Talisman! I...

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Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive credit-card-sized Single-Board Computer (SBC), which has tremendous learning (and play!) potential. And it runs Linux, so promotes Open Source Software! While the...

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Taking Photos and Videos both day and night of Birds and Animals

We started thinking we would feed a few birds outside the kitchen window. Then we learn more about birds, and that each type of bird has a preferred food. So we add a few different types of seeds. One...

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FreeCell Card Game

My son introduced us to FreeCell many years ago. FreeCell is a solitaire-like card game, which has four “free cells” (hence its name) at the top of the screen. There is a Wikipedia page devoted to...

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Happy 12th Birthday to www.glassblower.info !

As I mentioned in my earlier blog, the www.glassblower.info website started on April 11, 2002, so today is its 12th Birthday! Even more exciting is that we just had our MILLIONTH page view of the home...

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