Borosilicate glass implosion pendant by Bill Grout - GTT Cheetah torch
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- Bill Grout from Aspen Hot Glass is making a borosilicate glass pendant with a GTT Cheetah torch.
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The pressed dimple pattern is created with the help of a "florist frog" found at craft stores in the floral department. This style has been commonly referred to as an "implosion pendant" which was detailed in a great tutorial published in FLOW MAGAZINE (this technique has since been described as "compression".) Using the difference in viscosity at temperature to produce a three dimensional fold generates the three dimensional look.
I did a short remix showing finished pendants at the end:
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Bill and Rae Grout are full time artists from Corvallis Montana. “We are science geeks to glassblowers”. They both have technical backgrounds in the high tech avionics industry but left the corporate life to live their dream.
Bill became a full time artist and started blowing glass in 1993 and Rae left the corporate world in 2002 to be with Bill and become a glassblower. In 2016 they began incorporating metal working, dragon attire and Steampunk designs into their glass art. Together they live on a small farm that includes orchards, an extensive garden with a green house, Steampunk shop, Torch shop for torch work glass blowing, Bills Man Cave equipped with a electronics wing and Brew house.
Their farm has fantastic views overlooking the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. Together they spread love and harmony, sharing this fantastic journey called life.
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Thank you for these videos. As a Veteran suffering with anxiety, depression, and PTSD, I wish I could truly describe for you the emotions elicited by these. Between the music, and the artistry, it is truly something that I found extremely relaxing. I have started watching some before bed and they actually have helped me wind down and fall asleep. So again, thank you. And keep up the beautiful work.
It's even more therapeutic to actually get behind a torch yourself give it a try sometime if you ever get the opportunity
Awesome video man. I always enjoy seeing people who truly work at their craft and can make something amazing out of it. Great choice of music as well ;)
There isn't any music
Sam smith Had an AC/DC mix for two years but they made me take it off. Nothing else is quite the same!
Nice work, man! In an era of instant gratification, it's encouraging to see that some folks still take time in their craft.
+Daniel Bozman I was gratified pretty instantly though! You're right, I'm glad there there's so many people that cultivate tremendous skills like Mr Grout.
amazing how good human beings can be at a certain craft. That was incredible to watch
I first saw this video in 2014 when I had purchased my first torch (mega minor and a lil smith) and this had a profound impact on how I see and approach the material. Now I own a beautiful head shop in New Jersey that sells all my work and work from friends who we teach and I couldn’t be happier. For what it’s worth, thank you from the bottom of my heart and if your ever in NJ come find “Hub City Smokes”!
It is profound and deeply humbling to make such connections through art. Flame ON!
Hi Dimitri, I am Bill's wife Rae. Your kind words brought me to tears, thank you for your awsome good vibes. Please email your mailing address to me at Rae@AspenHotGlass.com ~ Have a wonderful day :-)
Ayyyyyyyyy Dimitri is my old shopmate! His shop is doing really well
I am a jeweler and although I don't do lamp work and such, I do admire those who show immense skill, such as yourself. Beautiful work, mate! Please post some more.
This might just be the most calming video on TH-cam
Meditative
And THIS is why I love youtube. Thank you for sharing your craft with us. Fascinating!
That was one of the most beautiful artistic videos I've stumbled onto on youtube. Well done
Thank you. Im a beginner. Ill give it a go.
Grateful for people like you who put it out there for others.
How the hell did I go from watching horror videos to glass making?
At least the music is helping me calm down from all those jump scares
Lol
I really want to get into glass blowing and the glass craftsmanship industry, making pieces and what not. But it's really cool to see how these designs are made. Honestly one of the best videos I've found even without voice. Such attention to detail, applied knowledge, and artistic touch. Love this.
Made this video some years ago out of some frustration with all the torchwork shot without a didymium filter. There are a ton of videos where unfortunately you can not see what is going on in the flame. Glad this video is still of some help!
Very cool! You probably got hundreds of people into glassblowing with this video!!!!! Good bless you brother!
Much Enjoyed!
Always a pleasure to watch a skilled craftsman at work! You make a delicate and tricky process look easy! It always makes me appreciate (all types of) pieces more when I see what goes into them.
don't know how i got here but that's beautiful, good job
WOW! I really underestimated how this kind of stuff is made. I appreciate these little pieces of art so much now.
That holes hot in orange look so damn cool and relaxing. Nice vid
working with glass seems relaxing already ^^ music fits the job aswell hahah
Right when i thought it couldn't get any more beautiful you just made it more beautiful! Awesome!
You, sir, have not simply created, "jewelry," but art.
Fantastic mate, the craftsmanship & perfect attention to detail is amazing! A true artist at work.
There's just something mesmerising about glass work. I could watch it all day.
So calming, for a moment i don't feel any pain from my carpal tunnel syndome, my back pain, my stiff neck ... And the vibration from the audio actually soothen me while the video hypnotize me ... Whoaaaah
Bill, I just realized I never commented on the original video, before you released the full length version and still love it. I don't know whose idea it was to use ACDC for the background music but it fits just perfectly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just went to your etsy account. WOW! absolutely beautiful!
that is schweeeeeeet!!! had no idea what went into making something so cool.!!!
This is so hypnotic to watch. I would've liked more of a closeup at the end.
Best music out of all the glass blowing vids.. Hail Bon Scott!
Very good job of showing what's going on. Thank you for doing this.
There's noting quite as beautiful as proper glass-handling, I envy you sir!
I work in the fiber optic extrusion field for a medical company in Colorado springs. We do not work with Borosilicate but I am amazed at how similar our technics are.
Our preforms come with core, cladding, then shock jackets and in process we ad a clear Teflon coating. But during our process I use a hydrogen torch and a dual rotating head, glass lathe to insert and submurse strain gauges and UV dampeners to protect the core.
I don't know anything about cosmetic or artistic glass work... and am surprised at how fun that looks. My certs and skills are from chemistry lab construction. So its even more shocking that our tooling is almost identical. But I don't see a vacuum hood? Is that a tool your industry uses?
And how do you know what colors to add?
We use safety hoods for ventilation, yes of course. Boro art glass grew from the scientific world, borrowing techniques from the traditional art glass world. Colors have been developed over the past 30 years or so, with a fairly rich palette available today. We simply choose from those colors, or make our own colors, based on artistic factors. Pipe making is become very popular recently, and it heavily borrows from scientific techniques. There isn't much difference between a complicated bong and a laboratory setup, except I have actually used the latter. So, we're seeing some cross-over there as well. Very interesting question, I'm amazed nobody had anything to say about it for 4 years ::)
Nice work. Some lady's surely going to enjoy wearing it; others will marvel over how it even came to be.
only a true artist can do something as thing.. congratulations
Thanks so much for making this video. You did an awesome job showing the steps.
simply AMAZING....always loved glass workmanship and blowing glass....very talented..!!!
Nice vid! for those asking yes it is called a floral frog, sold on eBay, amazon, hobby lobby, Michaels etc
As a newer glass-blower in boro, this work is freaking awesome mann... I've worked with several types of materials and craft pendants more commonly w/ soft lass, but this is beyond epic in the magnification of the bursting-designs (as you said, boro clear is MUCH cleaner for visuals through magnification). Beautiful work, I'll be back to letcha know how it goes for me:)
great music, and good description of what you were doing at the time. The one suggestion I could make is to show the finished piece after annealing, so we can see it in all it's beauty.
Thanks for watching! This video is rather old and was used in our store looping to show customers how they were made. They of course had the real thing to see in person.
@@WilliamGrout I have only been doing boro for a year so I nerd out on creation videos, and love to see the finished product.
Simply awesome craftsmanship & great tunes!
You, sir are an artist..! Thanks for sharing the video of your beautiful work.
Came out of curiousity, stayed for AC/DC, and your great nice craftsmanship sir.
That was some amazing glass work. A true artiest.
Amazing! I made my first implosion pendant tonight. I didn’t use solid rod though I used tubing. Trying this next it’s beautiful. I feel like with solid rod it will cut the chance of a bubble while filling the surface.
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTFUL! Such tallent! I've always wished I could make art with glass. my mom has collected blown glass all her life. great video!
I am self taught in glass work, but this specific design was published in Flow magazine a few years back. Of course I make mine my own wrong way!
Amazing craftsmanship. Bravo.
It feels like the galaxy and stars being created! Amazing. Great work and amazing artwork.
Beautiful! Thanks for the great tutorial :-) I particularly like the camera position - it helps me see exactly what you're dong
Very impressive artistry. It's taken hundreds of years to develop glass blowing and forming techniques.
As metal worker, I find it fascinating how they don't need flux and the glass never oxidizes.
Mostly true however flame chemistry is critical for colored glass and we can oxidise or reduce the surface to get different color effects by adjusting the torch. Glass will boil when overheated which is not good and it can devitrify when overworked which also is also very bad. Glass is sometimes referred to as "fluxed silica". The composition is by definition already a mix of pure silica sand and fluxing agents which brings down the melt temperature and make it more workable. Devitrified glass can occur when too much of the "flux" has been burned off.
+William Grout wow! the more you know! Thanks for the reply
good music+good work= Exelent video
Wow, that's a solid 5/7
+TheCraft I would rate it 9/11
+Apicalis Gaming Jet fuel cant melt glass beams
thanks for the florist frog tip
Looks so pure and clean
Nicely done, and beautiful. Thanks for sharing this direct and to the point video. Cheers!
killer.
great to see a different approach to a loop!
Adorable - you are a real master of art !
Very, very nice work. Just amazing. Thumbs up for you.
Good question! Cold seal punty work can break loose when I don't want it to, so I use hot seals most of the time. No cold seal will break without a mark. Good enough for some, but I like to flame polish any punty break point.
extremely impressive work
You're a patient artist.
I'm a tool builder, sick of working with steel, think i found my next profession :3
do it, its fun.
Out of words, just Wonderful
AMAZING! I have no idea what this is but the process looks fantastic!!! Thanks for sharing!
Really nice video. Love glass making and really top quality skill
what a fab skill !!! awesome!!! magic work--congrats--would love to own one !!
My wife was playing a bunch of ACDC the day I was editing this piece, and it made it so much fun I had to use some of it for the video!
. God gave this person an amazing talent!! 😀 This is pure genius. God bless everyone.
Glass is such a beautiful material and can have such diverse appearances, I would love to learn how to do this and there's so many cool things you can do with it
bong
That looks incredible.
troppo bravo,un maestro dell'arte,complimenti!!!
Amazing! Thank you very much for this tutorial!!!
Good job. Nice presentation.
this. is. simply. amazing.
Amazing, I really loved the final product.
Amazingly beautiful!
Quite possibly the most fasinating video I have ever watched on TH-cam :-)
Amazing and beautiful skill!
Boy,,ficou muito bom, adorei. Parabéns. Brazil.
great choice in song at the end lol he says its not as easy as it looks lol why else would i be here!!! ahaha lol great vid man thanks for the knowledge i have been learning to do implosions recently and this helped clear up a lot of bad habits....im ready to try a new one tonight!
That was fantastic! *applause*
superb craftsmanship bro ;) loving it
beautiful, thank you for sharing your knowledge and talent, very relaxing!
Amazing! I'm totally fascinated!
Beautiful artwork.
ACDC is the definition of a guilty pleasure.
That's gorgeous!!!
I've seen those kinds of items, but I never knew what they were called or how they were made.
An amazing result.
Very nicely done!
wonderfull. Hapiness is to work for living for working, like that.
that pendant is like freaking kryptonite for people with Trypophobia
+bluetorch13 not really
+bluetorch13 dont google it
+bluetorch13 Seeing how it is not a phobia in the DSM I highly doubt that.
^ohh it is.
oh my god I googled that
Great accuracy lol. Dotting implosions is a nightmare for me most the time cause my hands get shaky. i like the idea of putting down a pattern to follow, and you get the air trap that looks really cool.
Hey William, great video! Your technique is smooth and clean so it's a pleasure to watch. Non glass artists don't realize how much skill and time it takes to work glass with confidence and grace like you did in this video. 1 Question for you if you don't mind... when I make my implosion pendants with a very similar technique, the disc seems to become concave when I am imploding. Wondering if I am heating the edges too much and the center of the dot field is not getting direct heat enough?
Awesome vid, I enjoyed every second of it with AC/DC! haha
Tada? That was a very short presentation of such a beautiful piece and craft :)
Fantastic! Just beautiful! :)
Thats amazing
When you heat the edge the clear starts moving with gravity and begins a three dimensional fold around the color dots. Pressing flat at intervals helps control this rolling action, and keeps everything from getting too hot. The key is the clear is moving and the color is staying in place. At least the tips are. Hope that helps!
I waited an implosion all the video...
*****
Oh, finally, someone with whom to cry.
+Sergio Ariel Díaz Díaz For real though! Video was awesome, but I was waiting for him to dunk it in some cold water or something and actually implode something. Can't be mad though cause it was still awesome.
+Sergio Ariel Díaz Díaz its actually a compression...implosion is done on a tube.
Some people will argue that it has to be on a tube to be called an "implosion", which is fine. Call it "compression" or "implosion" or whatever you want to call it. To me they are all implosions regardless of whether they start on a rod or a tube. At the end of the day if you're blowing glass and making nice stuff, doesn't matter to me what you call it...
+Sergio Ariel Díaz Díaz I waited for the boro. What the hell is a boro anyway?
Great video. Would love to see more.
Great work. Nice and clean.