I anneal my beads, so they are "strong like bull". My torch is called called a Lynx from

Glass Torch Technologies, and runs on oxygen and propane mix. Its a great torch

for detail.

 

This is where I store all the beautiful glass rods imported from Italy and Germany along

with frits and other fun stuff. The hose coming in from my wall is my propane source

which is located outside in a wooden box. The cans that you see hold my mandrels, which

are stainless steel rods dipped into a slip solution, this is what I make the beads on.

 

Heres a close up of some of the glass rods that I make your beads from.

 

This is my Oxygen concentrator that breaths life into my torch. Quinn is always by my side!

 

Those stringy looking things are called stringers, I pull them from my glass rods. They

help me decorate the beads. The torch is lit and gets to be about 1,800 degrees. Do I ever

get burned? Nah, (ya right)

 

After several hours of annealing in the kiln, I take my beads off the mandrels and clean

out the holes with a diamond drill bit attached to a dremel. Then off to the designing

table I go and get "lost" into my designing phase....