What NOT to do when lampworking

[Glasshopper]

The following is based on an actual event, only the names have been changed to protect the stupid..

I worked in a neon shop and one of my coworkers was an out of work scientific glassblower (he is the one who gave me the bug for the hard stuff) it was after work and he had brought his torch to teach another coworker some of the hard glass.

She was a spinning and a melting making a glob on a rod, when it had reached sufficient size for her to do what he was showing, he said "now take it out of the fire and mash it flat". She begins to comply and places it on the carbon block conveniently placed for just such purpose.

She then mashes the still glowing molten glob WITH HER THUMB :bangHead:

Needles to say, do not try this at home. :evilLaugh

[Mr. Whale dick]

i want some lessons too...

[skip]

Hssslenuts has a masher that attaches to his johnson. His name is the bigles.

[Mr. Whale dick]

attached by the mouth bitch!!!!

[Meerkat]

Wow, I cant even imagine anyone being that stupid, you seriously have to wonder what was going through her head, she had to know that it would have been extremely hot.

[Zed]

Was she blond?

[Glasshopper]

She was kinda cute but REAL dumb.

Needless to say she didn't last as a neon bender.
As matter of fact she gave up soon after that.

[Alfred]

I've found the question"What was he/she/it thinking?"is usually based on the faulty reasoning that there was any thought at all involved in what happened.

[vetropod]

Darwin. :devilish:

[The Lorax]

i was in a hot shop once, the kid bonked his work from his blow tube... the first thing he does is bend over to pick it up with his hand, although someone yelled at him before he picked it up... it would of been cool to see him pick it up though, lol.

[murf]

i was in a hot shop once, the kid bonked his work from his blow tube... the first thing he does is bend over to pick it up with his hand, although someone yelled at him before he picked it up... it would of been cool to see him pick it up though, lol.

just last month I witnessed the same thing and some one yelled and the guy did pick up the piece. SOB! the next day he came in and had a pretty bad burn, but only to do the same thing again. OMG . well of all the retards I had to share a bench with, just as we where calling it a day, he lost a marble off a puntie , so I basically kicked him in the ribs as he stooped over to grab the thing. hurt his pride more than his ribs, but at least didn't get fried for a third time. I really felt uncomfortable next to him, so the event was pretty shitty for me. he was trying to get an internship with the guy, certainly had the desires , just not the brains. he was not to return. I admit Ive done some dumb things, just tend to learn from my mistakes and quickly.

[ech]

I do not beleive this story.

[Aymie]

The very first week I was blowing glass I wanted to pop an extra hole in a spoon I had just pushed the bowl in. I thought "hmmm where would the hole be comfortable?" and stuck my thumb right to the end of that bitch. The tip turned black and fell off in one large chunk a few days later. It think most of us have been dumb a time or two...ten if you're me.

[menty666]

Yeah, how many "I kissed a hot point" stories have floated past? I haven't burnt my lips yet, but I've gotten a couple singes checking to see if they were cool enough yet.

[Batou]

about 6 months back i was at Blade's shop and he was showing me some new to me things, i'm still quite new at this. i had cut a blow tube and melted the edges down...

a few minutes later i picked it up and coil potted on one end then i went to blow in it and found out that YEP STILL VERY HOT! (my first clue was the sizzeling of my lips and then the smell):twitch:

took a break, calmed down, and reflected-- hot glass does not go in the mouth.

lesson learned.