Ice Blue cup

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Steps in the hot shop to turn a bottle into a cup:



                  1. Pick up cup on to puntie and take tongs to make sure its centered on the pipe


2. This part is called trimming where we heat up the front part of the glass to make a certain high or make it a more even smooth lip of the vessel. 






3.The assistant ( me at the time) grabs the hot torch 




4. the Gaffer (the person sitting at the bench doing most of the work on the glass) takes the torch to heat the belly of the cup to make it become wider just at that part when blown into 


5. the gaffer then takes the calipers which are at the correct size to make sure every cup is opened up the same with and is also the same height all around 



6. this is a finished up and with go back in the kiln to be slowly brought down to room temperature 





This was just broken scraps that I thought looks so beautiful love this blue !!!













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