Blowing on a metal pipe (aka hollow mandrel)

[Juln]

I posted these in some weird thread on Wetcanvas, so I figured I might as well share it with the lovely folks on this forum as well.
Here are the notes and directions I give out in my blowing class. The class is about blowing just about anything out of 104 coe on a hot head, so thats what these directions are geared towards. If you have a larger torch than a hothead, you may prefer to use Bullseye - the stiffness makes it much easier to work as far as blowing goes. Perhaps some people here have had the same observation about other subjects? Okay, somebody should slap me.
The directions do not involve mandrel release, but you can adapt them to that particular vessel making method. In the class I teach blowing hollow beads and ornaments, and tube implosions also. So the directions are about making a hollow bead, basically like I do out of boro all the time, but from Effetre on a hot head. Woot!

http://www.majaba.org/class/
4 or 5 pages in .Doc format, even though I hate it when people distribute documents in .doc format.

[Ruth Nichols]

What weird thread is that? I posted these in some weird thread on Wetcanvas, so I figured I might as well share it with the lovely folks on this forum as well.
Here are the notes and directions I give out in my blowing class. The class is about blowing just about anything out of 104 coe on a hot head, so thats what these directions are geared towards. If you have a larger torch than a hothead, you may prefer to use Bullseye - the stiffness makes it much easier to work as far as blowing goes. Perhaps some people here have had the same observation about other subjects? Okay, somebody should slap me.
The directions do not involve mandrel release, but you can adapt them to that particular vessel making method. In the class I teach blowing hollow beads and ornaments, and tube implosions also. So the directions are about making a hollow bead, basically like I do out of boro all the time, but from Effetre on a hot head. Woot!

http://www.majaba.org/class/
4 or 5 pages in .Doc format, even though I hate it when people distribute documents in .doc format.

[Juln]

Oh, one that cropped up about 'hollow mandrels'. It's not actually weird, per se... thats just my favorite word, typically overused and misapplied.

[artsymommy]

the doc file didnt open... it gave an error about the page?

[theglasszone]

the doc file didnt open... it gave an error about the page?

Not for me either!

DeAnne in CA

[Beadbug]

no doc

[bexrox]

It won't open because it was originally posted two years ago. I'm new here, and there are so many great looking tuts, but so many broken links because they've expired. I wonder if there's a place all this info could be kept forever, like a common database where it can all be cut and pasted (there's prolly nobody who'd want to do all that work on their own time, though.)

[Chau Nguyen T]

The page is closed but if you read the whole page there's a paragraph to link to majaba.org - click on that then you can go into his web. Good luck. I'm digging for that tuts now. Chau

[Chau Nguyen T]

[QUOTE=Chau Nguyen T;1717064]The page is closed but if you read the whole page there's a paragraph to link to majaba.org - click on that then you can go into his web. Good luck. I'm digging for that tuts now. No good, no doc.

[Juln]

Hi, sorry the link is dead at the moment!
I didn't realized this post would be renewed after two years.

I'll locate the document and post it again later!

[szglassy]

Could you post it on the tutorials link?

Thanks!