Ok. First of all, I am deeply in love with boro. Second of all, I am mostly doing boro pendants and sculpture right now, and have made a few ornaments and a few cute bud vases out of my small and medium tubing. Well, tonight I was trying to practice blowing perfect bubbles so I can make ornaments for Christmas gifts.
Anyway, I blew a jelly-bean-snoopy-head shaped bubble and flame cut if off the tube and set it aside. After I had gotten a little satisfaction from getting one or two decent bubbles *I had a headache at this point, mind you,* I turned the torch off to reflect and take a break. Well I picked up the odd shaped one and looked at it, turned it in my hand, tapped it (*now here's probably where I went wrong*), and KAPOW!!! It exploded into a trillion little shards, covering my hands and lap with teeny-tiny little itty-bitty flecks of glass.
Needless to say I was a bit stunned and had to strategize before moving a muscle. Stripped down in the garage/studio, washed hands in the kitchen, then got some more clothes and came here frustratedly. Why did this happen??? If all my bubbles are tapped will they explode too?? Is it just the odd shaped ones??? Please, any help or "yeah I've done that" would be very much appreciated. Thanks folks!
PS: No, luckily I didn't seem to get any in my eyes, must have snapped shut pretty damn fast.. Thank goodness!!