How to make a glass needlefish
 

first you start with some clear glass

then you swirl up some colored glass... In this case I'm making a marbled needlefish

swirl up a few different colors with the tweezers

put some clear glass over it...

sweet

blow it up and shape it a bit...

put on the eyes

every lure needs hook hangers...

At this point I've taken the needle off of the pipe and am fire-polishing where the breakoff was....Then it gets put in an oven over night to cool.

tomorrow I'll show a pic of the needle when its cold...

Pics by Bud8fan:D

:claps: :claps: :claps: Awesome Eben! I need to add a needle and a squid to my popper:D

tobias

:btu: Soooooo sweeeeeet!!!!!! How long did it take to make and what size hooks are you putting on it?

eben, u ever think of becoming a model? you have the nicest hands:laughs:

kewl!

I got plenty of beach sand and a tourch, can I do that:confused:

Capesams, in theory you could melt beach sand with a torch, but it would be soo stiff you couldnt do anything with it... my glass is sand mixed with fluxes to bring the melting point down to a managable temp-

Youngsalt it takes years:D

I think 10/0 hooks would work

Blackeye- :smash:

Very impressive Eben :btu:

WOW!

Nice, interesting to see how thats done.

:D :D :D :D :D

:btu:
awesome!

I got fruxes, use it on plumin pipes.:) ta stickem tagethea

different kind:smash:

to make glass you need silica (sand), soda ash and lime stone(fluxes).
Way back... like 5000 years ago, glass was invented on a beach when sailors (or surfcasters:rolleyes: ) made a fire with seaweed and used limestone rocks to make a fire pit... when the fire got going the ash from the seaweed mixed with the sand and the limestones and in the morning the hung over sailors awoke to a pool of cold glass inside the fire pit... (or so the story goes)

Gotta get me one of them ovens.

:cool:

What happens when you strike a rock with that?:)
That's neat stuff!!
Thanks,
CD

:bgi: :drool:

VERY VERY COOL Eben.

it "cools" in an OVEN overnite I love that part. :D

Thanks for sharing that. I only saw a glassblower in person once in Austria I think it was. Really cool stuff.
And you guys work so fast, thats what amazes me, the hand speed.

Awesome stuff dude! :) F'in hot in that place come august tho!

Um err is that the one BubbaH:D
open key to the cave:rtfm: :hidin:

That is the one :D
It should look different when its cool.