Triple Blown

Triple Blown

also: Double Blown, Quad Blown

Refers to a non-exsistant technique handed down from one generation of pipe makers to the next. Often encountered when a novice pipe maker goes out to sell his wares for the first time. Many shop owners, wanting to sound knowledgable, will ask if the work is Triple Blown

Likewise, many unscrupilous glass blowers and sellers will represent thier work as being Triple Blown so as to confuse or trick the buyers into thinking their work is something better than ordinary glass.

Some people have suggested that Triple Blown is a real technique, offering suggestions from the absurd to the plausible. Current research being done at MIT and Carnigie Melon University suggests however, that Triple Blown is nothing more than marketing speak for thick, properly annealed, inside out work. (citation needed)

--GreymatterGlass-66 21:55, 16 January 2007 (EST)