11 Hours of Master Instruction · 5 Artists

Learn to Blow
Color-Changing Glass
From the Masters

Nine professionally filmed instructional videos. Five master glass artists walk you step by step — from choosing your first torch to pulling finished sherlocks, hammers, water pipes, and goblets. A complete education in borosilicate glass art.

9Video Courses
5Master Artists
660Minutes of Instruction
Filmed with 5 Professional Glass Artists
11 Hours of Step-by-Step Instruction
Beginner to Advanced · No Experience Needed
Artist photo · coming soon
The Problem

Every Mistake in Glass Costs You Real Money

In borosilicate glassblowing, failure isn't free. Every cracked piece, every botched fuming, every ruined tube costs you material, fuel, and hours of work. Random YouTube clips don't teach you how to avoid those failures — they just show you the highlight reel.

People don't pay for information. They pay for reduced failure. That's exactly what a structured, step-by-step system from experienced artists gives you.

Material
Boro tubing + color isn't cheap
Time
Hours at the torch — gone
Fuel
Oxygen + propane burned
Breakage
Cracked in the kiln overnight
The Complete Video Library

Nine Courses. Five Artists.
Every Technique You Need.

Each video is a complete, structured lesson — not a highlight reel. Watch a master artist build a piece from raw tubing to finished work, explaining every decision along the way.

Pipe Making — 6 Videos
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Secrets to Making Glass Pipes — Volume 1

Have you ever wanted to blow glass but didn't know where to get started? This video covers it — including information on the tools, torches, and kilns. Two master artists demonstrate two different styles of making color-changing glass. Your essential starting point.

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Secrets to Making Glass Pipes — Vol. 2: Advanced GlassBlowing

Learn how to make inside/out glass, side-car bubblers, and hammers. Learn how to sink the dowstem to make your piece into a water-filtered design. Builds directly on Volume 1.

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Secrets to Making Sherlocks — Volume 1

Learn step by step how to create a two-piece bubbler sherlock water pipe. Learn how to pull color and latticinos using a cordless drill. Techniques that save you prep time so you spend more time creating new pieces.

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Secrets to Making Sherlocks — Volume 2

Learn new techniques for pulling dicro cane and color. Step by step making of a five-piece opposing spiral sherlock using purple dichroic glass, mallard, and cobalt blue. Heavily worked from top to bottom.

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Secrets to Making Hammers — Volume 1

If you love large glass inside/out opposing spiral hammers, this is the video for you. Heavily worked from top to bottom. Step by step so you won't miss a thing. One of the most advanced builds in the series.

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Secrets to Making Water Pipes — Volume 1

If you love large glass water pipes, this is the video for you. Heavily worked from top to bottom. No lathe work — completely hand blown in the torch. The most advanced construction in the entire series.

Glass Jars — 2 Videos
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Secrets to Making Glass Jars — Volume 1

Learn new techniques for pulling lattichinos, ribbon lattichinos, and beautiful color. Step by step how to make simple jars that make great gifts. Perfect for craft fairs, holidays, or building your skills in vessel forming.

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Secrets to Making Glass Jars — Volume 2

How to apply dichroic glass, millis, and magnifiers to your artwork. Advanced jar techniques that build directly on Volume 1. Elevate your jars from functional gifts to collectible art pieces.

Wine Goblets
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Secrets to Making Wine Goblets — Volume 1

If you love drinking wine or know someone that does, they're sure to love hand-blown wine goblets. Great for craft fairs or gifts during the holidays. Step by step you learn how to create these wonderful pieces of art.

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The Pipe Maker's Bundle

Everything you need to go from zero to making advanced pipes, sherlocks, hammers, and water pipes.

  • Glass Pipes Vol. 1 & 2
  • Sherlocks Vol. 1 & 2
  • Hammers Vol. 1 + Water Pipes Vol. 1
  • 6 courses · 480 minutes total
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Who You're Learning From

Five Master Artists.
One Complete Education.

Each instructor brings a distinct specialty. Volume 1 features two artists back-to-back so you see two approaches to the same technique. Later volumes go deep with individual masters.

🔥 Fuming & Color
Name to be announced

Pioneer of the color-changing technique — silver and gold fuming to create iridescent shifts across the glass surface. The first voice you hear in Volume 1.

Glass Pipes Vol. 1
💧 Water Filtration
Name to be announced

Specialises in inside-out work, side-car bubblers, and downstem sinking for water filtration. Teaches the advanced techniques in Pipes Vol. 2 that separate beginners from artists.

Glass Pipes Vol. 2 · Water Pipes
🌀 Sherlocks
Name to be announced

Two-piece bubblers, latticinos pulled with a cordless drill, and five-piece opposing spiral constructions with dichroic glass. The sherlock specialist across both volumes.

Sherlocks Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
🔨 Hammers
Name to be announced

Inside/out opposing spiral hammer construction — no lathe, completely hand blown at the torch. One of the most technically demanding builds in functional glass art.

Hammers Vol. 1
🫙 Vessels & Goblets
Name to be announced

Lattichino pulling, dichroic application, millis, and magnifiers. Teaches the vessel-forming fundamentals that underpin all advanced work — jars through wine goblets.

Glass Jars Vol. 1 & 2 · Wine Goblets

All five instructors have been blowing borosilicate glass professionally for 10+ years. Their videos were shot in working studios with professional multi-angle camera setups — the same techniques, the real environment.

Student Results

What Artists Are Making

From complete beginners to artists selling at craft fairs.

"I'd watched every free YouTube video and still couldn't figure out the fuming technique. Volume 1 broke it down in a way nothing else did. Within a week I had my first clean color-changer — silver shifts and everything."

MR
Marcus R.
Colorado · Glass Pipes Vol. 1 & 2

"The sherlock volumes are the best money I've spent on glass instruction. The drill trick for pulling latticinos alone saved me hours of trial and error. I made my first five-piece in under two weeks."

ST
Sarah T.
Oregon · Sherlocks Vol. 1 & 2

"Bought the Complete Collection. I'd been making basic pipes for years but my work was sloppy. The Jars volumes taught me vessel control I never had. Now I sell goblets and jars at every craft fair I do."

DK
Dave K.
California · Complete Collection
Equipment Guide

What You Need to Get Started

Volume 1 covers every piece of equipment in detail. Here's the overview so you know what you're getting into.

Torch

An oxygen-propane bench torch is your primary tool. Beginner options include the Bethlehem Alpha and GTT Bobcat — both handle boro and run on oxygen concentrators.

Safety Glasses

Didymium glasses that block infrared, UV, and sodium flare. Non-negotiable — your eyes need protection from the torch's intense light and radiation.

Regulators & Hoses

Oxygen and fuel regulators control gas pressure. T-grade hoses with B fittings and flashback arrestors keep you safe. The foundation of your studio.

Hand Tools

Graphite paddles, tungsten probes, tweezers, glass nippers, scoring knife, and claw grabbers. These shape your molten glass into finished art.

Glass & Color

Clear borosilicate tubing (COE 33) plus color rods and fuming metals — silver and gold — for the signature color-changing effect.

Annealing Kiln

Slowly cools your finished glass to relieve internal stress. Without proper annealing, your work cracks. Boro is held at 1050°F and cooled at 1–2 degrees per minute.

Your Learning Path

From First Flame to Finished Art

Follow this progression. Each course builds on the last.

1. Set Up Your Studio

Glass Pipes Volume 1 ($19.99) — Equipment, torches, kilns, and tank storage. Two artists demonstrate two styles of color-changing glass. You finish this video knowing exactly what to buy and how to make your first piece.

2. Build Your Foundation

Glass Jars Vol. 1 & 2 ($19.99 each) — Lattichinos, ribbon lattichinos, dichroic glass application, millis, and magnifiers. Jars teach vessel forming and wall control that transfer directly to advanced work.

3. Go Advanced

Glass Pipes Volume 2: Advanced GlassBlowing ($29.99) — Inside/out glass, side-car bubblers, hammers, and dowstem sinking for water filtration. This is where your work starts to look professional.

4. Master the Sherlock

Sherlocks Vol. 1 & 2 ($39.99 & $49.99) — Two-piece bubblers, pulling color and latticinos with a cordless drill, five-piece opposing spiral construction with dichroic glass, mallard, and cobalt blue. 2.5 hours of focused sherlock instruction.

5. Build Complex Pieces

Hammers ($59.99) & Water Pipes ($59.99) — Inside/out opposing spiral hammers and large-scale water pipe construction. No lathe work — completely hand blown in the torch. The pinnacle of functional glass craft.

6. Diversify Your Craft

Wine Goblets ($39.99) — Hand-blown borosilicate wine goblets. Great for craft fairs and gifts. Proves your range as a glass artist and opens an entirely different market.

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Questions & Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

You need an oxygen-propane torch (we recommend the Bethlehem Alpha or GTT Bobcat for beginners), oxygen and propane regulators, T-grade hoses, flashback arrestors, didymium safety glasses, graphite tools, tweezers, a scoring knife, glass nippers, Kevlar gloves, a fiber blanket, clear borosilicate tubing, color rods, and an annealing kiln. Volume 1 covers every piece of equipment in detail — what it does, why you need it, and what we recommend.
Color-changing glass is created through fuming — vaporizing precious metals (silver and gold) in front of your torch flame. The metal fumes bond to the borosilicate glass surface, creating an iridescent effect that shifts as light passes through from different angles. Silver creates blue, purple, and yellow tones. Gold produces pink, green, and orange hues. This technique was pioneered by glass artist Bob Snodgrass in the 1980s.
Yes. Our videos were professionally filmed with multiple camera angles showing every step. Five master glass artists walk through their techniques, explaining each decision. You can pause, rewind, and rewatch complex techniques as many times as you need — something impossible in a live class. Many working glass artists learned foundational skills from video before refining in a studio.
A complete beginner setup — torch, regulators, hoses, safety gear, hand tools, and glass — runs $500–$1,500 depending on your torch choice. An entry-level kit starts around $400–600. An annealing kiln adds $300–800. Volume 1 compares torches at different price points and tells you exactly what to buy so you don't waste money.
Borosilicate glass (boro/hard glass) contains boron trioxide, giving it superior thermal shock resistance, durability, and chemical resistance compared to soda-lime soft glass. It requires higher working temperatures but produces stronger, longer-lasting pieces. It's the preferred material for functional glass, scientific equipment, and art glass. Pyrex is the most well-known borosilicate brand. All nine courses teach exclusively with borosilicate.
Yes. When you purchase a course, you get permanent access. Watch as many times as you want, on any device. No subscription, no recurring charges, no expiration.
Start Your Journey

Stop Guessing. Start Building.

Begin with Volume 1 for $19.99 — or get all 9 courses and save $110 with the Complete Collection.