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In this video I show you some air twist stringers that I’ve made using an ancient technique that glass blowers used to produce air twist stems for drinking glasses. I intend to use these stringers to decorate glass beads that I will make and I will use some for glass fusing work. It’s important not to overheat the stringer when applying it to a bead or fusing as the twist of air will resolve itself into several large bubbles and the effect will be lost.
I'm at the early stages of my experimenting and it may all come to nothing but hopefully I'll be showing you some more results, subject to moving house soon. I was inspired to make this video as I talked about ‘air twist’ on the ‘Frit-Happens’ website but I couldn’t find any videos showing this particular technique. Frit-Happens is a very helpful, friendly website for folk interested in all creative things relating to glass as in bead making, jewellery making, stained glass, glass fusing and lots more. www.frit-happens.co.uk
You may notice that I’ve made over 100 videos and I have had a lot of pleasure out of YouTube I used to reply to every comment made on them, more than 10 a day, more than 3600 a year! but when they changed the comments notification system it rather killed it for me. So please feel free to comment on the video but please forgive me if I don’t get back to you. Thanks for the interest and have a look at the Frit-Happens website, check out the gallery, and maybe ask those questions about glass that may just get you into the hobby.
Thanks for watching.
Kind Regards . . . Andy