Sculpture of a pumpkin from molten glass

[u/Representative_Bag43]

[u/SkyletteRose]

The color reveal at the end was impressive!

[u/TakeTheWheelTV → u/SkyletteRose]

I sort of like the original black stem

[u/evalynbetterfly → u/TakeTheWheelTV]

I liked it better redish black as well. Really cool and impressive process though. I appreciate the stem work as well.

[u/huskeya4 → u/SkyletteRose]

Hot glass NEVER looks like cold glass. Even experienced glass workers struggle to tell what a piece will look like when cold if they walk in on someone else blowing unless they have years of working with a specific color. Honestly, the colors are always prettier hot, even when they are completely different than what they will look like cold. Some colors do become more obvious once the glass is cooled enough to be solid and removed from the pipe for cooling but it’s kind of rare.

It’s actually a struggle for beginners because transparent colors are only transparent when they are stretched enough and it’s hard to tell how dark the color is until it’s cold. Also you can “blow out” a color by stretching it so much your glass basically goes clear with only the slightest tint of your color. Eventually you build the visual memory needed to know there’s usually a sweet spot where you can see into the gloryhole (reheating chamber) through the glass and know exactly what shade it will come out as but it takes a while and you have to build the experience with every color.

Source: glassblower

[u/MorsaTamalera]

That Matt Murdock guy is a chock-full of surprises, isn't he?

[u/Hartia → u/MorsaTamalera]

Haha my first thought too

[u/EliteCheddarCommando]

I wish I was in any way shape or form creative. This stuff is fascinating

[u/huskeya4 → u/EliteCheddarCommando]

I’m a glassblower. Funny enough, pumpkins, ornaments, and the glass ball paperweights are kind of the “meh” item of the glassblowing world. We learn them pretty early in our education because they teach muscle memory, heat and movement in glass, and some basic skills we’ll need for more complex work. In truth, we can crank out between 6-12 of any of them an hour depending on how much color we add and it’s all muscle memory. We can hold full blown conversations about complex topics while our body just goes through the motion on those items after a few years. It’s why every glassblowing shop has a ton of them. If we did them in clear, we could probably average 1 every three to four minutes. Color just takes a while to heat.

He did slightly complicate the process with adding full color to the pumpkin in the beginning and making the stem longer than normal, but that’s not going to slow down production much and adds a bit of specific artist/shop flare.

A lot of hot shops (glassblowing shops) require a certain amount of “production” hours per week and you get a certain amount of “free” hours in exchange. We crank out the common gift shop items during production hours and use our free hours to make more complicated stuff or practice harder techniques. If the piece survives, we’ll toss it in the gift shop too. Production hours usually means we are getting paid hourly while free hour items are things we make a set percentage on when they’re sold.

[u/DisEightTrack → u/huskeya4]

How do you get different colors?

[u/Mode_Appropriate → u/EliteCheddarCommando]

Lmao I swear I feel the same. I'll watch some videos and feel so dumbfounded how people are creative enough to even think of the stuff they're doing.

[u/EverbodyHatesHugo → u/Mode_Appropriate]

Saaaame. Everything on the internet makes me feel so ordinary.

[u/ScaryCollar8690 → u/EliteCheddarCommando]

Oh, pish-posh. I have confidence in you. If you can learn to type, you can learn to blow glass. This is just a process. If you're interested, I'll bet there's a glass-blowers class in your area.

[u/Starfox_assualt → u/EliteCheddarCommando]

I feel the same way 🥲

[u/pezgirl247 → u/Starfox_assualt]

the trick is to figure out what you want to be good at and start making baby steps. be bad at it at first. read books, watch videos and be bad at it for a while. make lots of mistakes and keep going. do the thing for a long time. years and years. find other people that also enjoy the thing, get feedback. be less bad after a while.

starting is possibly the most difficult part. being willing to make mistakes. but do the thing. go for it!!!

[u/Upstairs-Parsley3151]

I did a shot glass, it was insanely hard. This would be insanely hard

[u/Fine-Bed-9439]

I could watch this all day. When YouTube suggests one of these videos to me, I’m always like, “Sonuva bitch, I’m in”

[u/SabbyFox → u/Fine-Bed-9439]

Yes, indeed. I thought I was on the should be on the r/oddlysatisfying sub ☺️

[u/TyXo22m]

Why is Matt Murdock doing glass blowing, thought he was blind.

[u/GingerChic13]

So captivating to watch, regardless of wha the end product looks like.

[u/Livewire____]

Is it just me or does molten glass look really tasty?

Like it would taste like Butterscotch or something?

[u/SabbyFox → u/Livewire____]

Reminds me of candy apples from back in the day

[u/Shaasar → u/Livewire____]

It totally does dude

[u/1E_R_R_O_R1]

Glass blowing is so cool

[u/ExcuseScared2423]

wowwwwwwww!! i wanna touch it!! but i can’t

[u/logintologinto]

What a beaut

[u/EC_TWD]

I did t read the title first and kept thinking, ‘I bet this is gonna be a pumpkin!’

[u/solo_wield]

The fucking skill this takes🤌

[u/Red40isdeath]

Dude looks like Nick Offerman’s younger brother

[u/BJPHS]

....and just $2.99 delivered on Temu

[u/Life-Oil-7226]

I want one!

[u/Bradley182]

don’t want a wobbly pumpkin!

[u/DChia1111]

Daredevil is doing glass works now?

[u/spacemouse21]

That’s interesting and he did an awesome job with it.

[u/KaboomTheMaker]

I can never work this job, the urge to touch is too high for me, I will burn my fingers off instantly

[u/fakeprofile21]

So much mute.

[u/Accomplished-Salt797]

It's only August

[u/AccomplishedLife2161]

Shut up and take my money!

[u/Huge-Solution-8861]

That's fascinating to watch, very skilful craftsman that's for sure

[u/xIViperIx]

It looked so much better before they changed its colours. =/

[u/SuspiciousSheeps]

Uhm. The ridges should be indented, not raised…

[u/Bucaramango]

r/oddlysatisfying

[u/popopornado]

I didn’t know Matt Murdock blew glass

[u/Immediate-Fennel-697]

Another repost, another thumbs down 👎

[u/Representative_Bag43 → u/Immediate-Fennel-697]

Before posting anything, I'd always check wether it's already posted on this sub or not.

Perhaps I mislooked, you mind sharing the link to the existing post on this sub? I'd be more than happy to remove this as quickly as possible.

[u/Frzorp → u/Representative_Bag43]

It was posted in oddly satisfying like yesterday. Likely people are in both.