[Speedslug]

Muckiness on a hot head is often due to our human nature to "get up close and personal" with the melting glass.

Because of the way hot torches are designed they don't burn up the fuel in the one or two inches closest to the torch face.
The fuel and the air are not mixed well enough as it moves out from the torch.

But our interest causes us to pull the molten glass closer because all of our other experience with heat tells us the closer we get the hotter the flame is.

Work your glass just outside the blue cone and add alot of patience, patience, patience to your practice, practice, practice.


When you decide to play with reduction on a hot head make a cone out of aluminum foil with enough extra foil so you can kind of crunch / crimp enough to get to stay close to covering most of the holes at the base of the torch head.

Do this while the torch is cold.
Your first burn should not come from grabbing a hot torch through a thin sheet of aluminum foil !

We all learned quite a bit from someone else so keep asking questions.