In today's glass blowing lampworking video, I make a really cool galaxy marble with an encased opal. The material is borosilicate glass.
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This amazing marble is not too hard to make and teaches you a bunch of useful lampworking techniques that you can use for many projects.
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0:00 - Intro 0:20 - Showing the glass and tools 1:00 - Lampworking glass blowing technique encasing opal 3:55 - Working the fumed cane 6:25 - Applying the cobalt blue backing 9:08 - Lampworking technique shaping a marble 1st half 10:51 - Attaching the opal and glass for the lens 12:51 - Rounding the 2nd half 16:01 - Rounding the marble in a graphite marble mold 18:08 - Final shaping
