This summer I purchased a Nortel Mega Minor lampworking torch. I used the profit from my glass fusing sales and set up a very tiny workstation in the laundry room with the propane outside. There isn't much space next to my bonnie glo kiln, barely just enough.
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Making a bead |
I don't have any bead making experience, but how hard could it be. Well it has turned out to be very easy to make a bead and very difficult to make a bead that is symmetrical.
It is also pretty awesome.