I have this wild dream of having a small hotshop in my studio. The hardest part will be getting a house with a decent size shop or garage...hopefully I can swing that in the next year or so. The second part is saving up the $5-10K to install the furnace/glory hole/annealer/etc.

A friend of mine recommended this DVD on how to build a furnace:

http://www.mayneislandglass.com/40poundfurnace.htm

Honestly, 40llbs seems kind of small for doing production work...then again, I'm always good for my eyes being bigger than my stomach. I'd anticipate goblet/cups, small tubes and paperweights.

I'd like to do as much fabrication of the pieces as possible, as this would set me up to maintain the equipment myself.

Anyone have pics of their home hotshops they would like to share? Thoughts on costs and considerations of putting it together?

Thanks!

Josh