hot shop resourses/forums??

[mistahead]

well out of a strange coincidence(strange cause i live in the middle of nowhere and my closest neibors are a half mile away!) there is a fellow 2 miles up the road with a pretty nice hotshop setup!! one out of 2 setups in the province of manitoba!! well i got to go check it out yesturday for the first time!!! although he offred for me to try it out i just watched for now..he said next time i stop by im welcome to try!! well as you can all tell im fairly excited about this and was wondering where the BEST resources on the net were for this!!
im sure ill keep yall informed on how it goes!!
cheers
Randy

[dirtyglass]

pick up a copies of glassblowing techniques and adnvanced glassblowing techniques, both by ed schmidt. They are both great and will teach you a boatload of stuff

[BSD_Radiant_Glass]

I'm a hot glass blower who has been working in glass full time for the last 6 years. I'm also a book junkie and by far the BEST book I've ever read on beginning glassblowing in a hot shop is Art of Fire. There is an accompanying DVD that I have not seen that is purported to also be excellent.

http://www.glassblower.info/the-art-of-fire-beginning-glassblowing-book.html

I TOTALLY recommend you read this book and do the exercises recommended before you step into the hot shop. Having the pipe turning skills down before you start has GOT to be huge. All you have to face then is weird tooling and unbelievable heat from all that molten mass. I know lampworkers turn all the time, but it's WAY different.

Cheers

BSD

[mistahead]

cool, ill have to see if i can find those books locally, he only runs his shop for a month at a time or so, and theres about 2 weeks left on it this month! he said i can try something tommorow!! guess hes pretty stoked to, he wants to come play at my shop while his is down! though his shop is WAAAYYY warmer than mine!!! sometimes i wonder what would be worse...dying a long painful death while suffering from cold induced arthritus or just leaving the vent off and seeing what happens!!! it was minus 30 yesturday here!!!!!!ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

[LoneWolfandSon]

hey mistahead,

nice to have a hot shop that close. i have been looking looking around me and coming up short. but here is a foum with a hot shop section but there isnt that many off hand guys there www.glassline.net/forums/index.php? . have fun in the shop im so jealous.

[Mike_Aurelius]

These forums are entirely dedicated to hot shops:

http://talk.craftweb.com/
http://handmade-glass.com/cgi-bin/conf.pl