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"Who
else wants to learn how to blow glass,
and
create original works of
glass art...
Without
spending a fortune on tools and equipment?"
If you want to
learn how to blow glass,
there are a couple of ways you can go about
it...
You can set up your own hot glass shop...
- You'll spend thousands
of dollars building your own glass furnace, glory hole, and annealers...
- Spend hundreds
more on blowpipes & punties...
- Spend still more
buying hand-torches, blocks
& paddles, jacks & shears...
and all of the other tools
every offhand glassblower needs.
- Then, on top of
all that, you'll need to buy glass cullet or glass batch...
(or a bunch of messy sand
and chemicals so you can mix your own).
Or...
You can go a slightly cheaper route by setting up
a lampworking studio...
- You'll still need
a multi-hundred dollar torch...
- And a source of
natural gas or propane...
- You'll have to buy
or rent oxygen tanks...
- Buy or build
annealing ovens, and more hand tools.
- And then you'll
need to buy borosilicate rods and tubing...
or expensive imported
soft-glass colored rods.
Either way, it
can cost you a small fortune...!
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But
there's one more way for you to start learning how to blow glass...
Without
spending an arm and a leg before you even get started...
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Introducing...
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The Starving Artist's
guide to
Glass Blowing
Creating Artistic Glass
with scrap glass
and a torch
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Originally written
in the early 1960s,
this long lost manual was put together by Joseph G. Payer, Jr., who
took his experience as a scientific glassblower (or lampworker) and
translated it into an easy-to-follow guide for the 'average' person
with 'below-average' funds.
In the book, Mr.
Payer explains how to use
scrap glass commonly found in every home - bottles & jars,
marbles,
light bulbs & flourescent tubes - to create artistic blown
glass
items - vases, ornaments, and glass sculptures.
The illustrated
text includes a
brief
history of glass, descriptions of the tools and equipment you'll need,
basic glass working techniques, and how to prepare your materials for
use...
as well as several
artistic glass projects you can create in your
own home.
Mr.
Payer guides you, step-by-step, as you learn the basic skills of
lampworking (also known as Scientific
glassblowing)
- using a propane torch and glass rods & tubes.
You don't need to
build or
buy expensive equipment.
You don't have to
pay for
pricey materials.
You
can jump right in... (today, if you want)
and
start learning how to create your own artistic blown glass!
Long out
of print, we've updated
the original text with New Information and an expanded list of
Resources, and now offer this book as a convenient, downloadable PDF
format eBook that you can read right on your own computer with Adobe®
Reader.
44 pages. 65 illustrations.
So how much
are we asking for this informative,
money-saving how-to?
The original
limited-circulation text is long out of print and rarely
seen.
When intact copies do turn up, they are eagerly purchased by
anxious glass artists and collectors.
Even if you could locate a copy offered for sale by a rare book dealer,
you'd
likely pay as much as $50 or more for an original edition.
But we're not going to ask you
for anywhere near that much...
By offering our updated Glass Blowing Guide in a digital downloadable
format,
we don't have to charge for
the added costs of printing,
warehousing, or shipping.
We're able to pass those savings on to you and, for a limited time,
we're giving you the
opportunity to own this informative volume for
only:
$9.97
Order your copy right now and get FREE digital delivery Worldwide!
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digital edition
of this Glass Blowing eBook right away,
just
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After
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Whether it's the middle of the day,
or the middle of the night!
Rest assured with our 30 day money-back
guarantee. If you're not completely satisfied with your ebook, we'll
give you a full refund of your purchase price any time within 30 days
of your download.
This is a
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Copyright ©2009 Fledgling Studio
and John R. Cumbow
updated December 2009
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