Comments on: Handblown Glass Ray Guns: Pretty, Won’t Shoot You

By: Raygun Robyn

Raygun Robyn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:18:04 +0000

I have one of these and I LOVE it. He’s very talented.

By: Franky T.R.

Franky T.R. — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:00:44 +0000

O.K.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:19:50 +0000

Thank you for that, Frank.

By: Franky T.R.

Franky T.R. — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:12:31 +0000

Windows and bottles are also made of glass.

By: Paulie Danger

Paulie Danger — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:55:01 +0000

Somewhere Ming the Merciless is frightened.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:35:07 +0000

Cool! Thanks Al!

By: Alfred

Alfred — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:32:55 +0000

No, it doesn’t take 15 hours to “dry”. It takes 15 hours to _cool_. You can cool glass quickly, for example by dumping it in a bucket of water, but when the outside of glass cools (and shrinks) faster than the inside, it results it lots and lots of cracking. The purpose of the annealing oven is to cool it so slowly that it’s always a uniform temperature. Thus the 15 hours. Thicker glass objects take longer to cool, thinner ones shorter.