Tuition:
Full Professional Grounding 

Introduction Class Contents

1. Torches - hot head demo, minor burner turning on and off, flame properties and temperature zones, reduction/oxidization.

2. Vermiculite verses annealing oven, annealing, stress in glass, expansion and compatibility.


3. Melting and getting control of the glass - drops, pulling stringers of different thicknesses, twisted stringers.

4. Bead making - mandrels, mandrel release, working at different temperatures.

Barrel shaped bead - working on a mandrel  at lower temperature - putty consistency.		Doughnut shaped bead - melting completely and centering - treacle consistency.
decorating
Stringers feathered with a knife. Stringers raked with a pick. Stringers and dots raked. Stringers with gravity twist and side shift. Bead with twisted stringer.		Applying dots. Melting them in. Dots on dots melted in making rings. Dots on dots left raised. Dots on dots, gravity twist. Dots raked with stringer - fern pattern Dots scrolled with a stringer. Rings raked with a fine stringer

5. Some more advanced techniques which can be demonstrated. A choice of one or two these maybe tried by the student.

Plunge flower bead. Crumb and gold leaf cased with clear and creased with a knife. Plunge bead. Melon bead with twisted stringer and creased with a knife. Overlapping rings to give scale pattern. Zoned dots with raking and scrolling. Raised dots on dots in symmetrical pattern. Silver foil core cased with colours. Random rings. Twisted stringer with scrolling. Applied stringer left proud.