Glassblower's thoughts related to general life

[gypsea]

So I was carrying out the recycling items and dropped a champagne bottle onto the terrazzo ( concrete) floor. ( just had our 30th anniversary) It shattered into so many pieces, even powder size pieces. The first thing that came out of my mouth was, " well damn, that sure wasn't annealed!"

What are some of your thoughts that pop out that only glassblower's would understand?

[glass charlie]

i've got a tendency to see dust or things floating in the air (not in the studio) and have a tiny panic response thinking its bubbletrash or a stringer lol

[LowTideGlass]

When you are eating mashed potatoes and corn and you take a gather of taters and roll onto the corn like it is frit.

More of an action than a thought, but I find myself doing it a lot. Lol

[istandalone24/7]

playing in the honey pot, pretending it's a crucible of 104 clear lol. lets see how big of a "gather" i can come up with lol.

[JLF]

- Any time I see new Pyrex glass products in the store I get slightly sad knowing it's not made of borosilicate.
- Whenever I buy cheap new drinking glasses, I examine each one to find the most uniform lips and even/undistorted walls.

Edit: Interesting video about Pyrex cookware https://youtu.be/2kxTtnPGHSo

[Firekist]

i've never taken toasting marshmallows on the fire as seriously as i do now.. it's second nature to spin it evenly, and to be sure you heat the back side of the marshmallow by getting that heat behind it.
thing is.. i kinda hate being by fires now that i stare into a fire all day long. ah well.

[dplaza]

i think for most people stuff is either hot or not. i think just being familiar with how things react at 300 vs 500 vs 1000 vs 1500 etc. spontaneous combustion and all that.

anything made out of glass becomes a puzzle that my brain has to figure out how it was made. or at least come up with 3 good guesses.

[Swim]

I never thought that I would spend this much time spooning instead of forking (fucking)

[yinzer]

- anytime there is some kind of gritty texture to my food I assume its glass, regardless of where i am
- I grab hot stuff all of the time with bare hands and it freaks people out (i.e. grabbing stuff out of an oven)
- most people can't handle the heat of the water i wash my hands and clean stuff with
- I often call colors by their glass name, especially car colors
- I also examine drinking glasses but I do it pretty much everywhere I go

[doosight]

Whenever i go to a restaurant i examine the bottom of the salt and pepper shakers. I haven't come across one with an even bottom yet =P

[Nomad]

I hate seeing the imported pipes in every gas station.

[jr23]

I am with yiz on the freaking people out with acclamation to heat .

I grab shit out of oven .

I test my BBQ grill by laying my hand on it .

My smoker I can read to within 10 -15 degrees by taking a wet finger and swiping it on lid and watching how long it takes to evaporate .


I try not to get crazy explaining glass shit to non glass people .

It took me many years to let them not care lol