Started the day with a fun and productive workshop at the Clarks. I love hanging out with all of these folks.
Lunch was making our own pizzas and only mine didn’t work ! D-oh
From there headed back into Burlington for a meetup at AO glass.. Rich and Anders gave us a really nice close up demo of glass blowing.. as The final part rich made a “prince rupert drop” by blowing a small bubble in a blob of glass then letting it fall. into a pail of water. The sudden cooling makes the glass extra strong by freezing in stress tl the outside. You can hammer on the bulb and it wont shatter.. but if you as much as nick the tail.. it explodes like crazy.. I helped build an impromptu polarascope with a polarizing camera filter and a computer screen. It allowed us to see the frozen in stresses as rainbows…
Rich put it on the table in a glass jar and nipped the tail with a wire cutter.. check out what happened !
From there we walked over to see my friend Brian’s shop. he just got a very cool new 130 watt laser.. He’s such an awesome craftsman !
Fun day !
nite all, nite sam
-me