Gayle Price Scientific Glassblower University of Leicester
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Tucked away in our Department of Chemistry is a workshop where Gayle Price, the University’s Scientific Glassblower, spends her time creating specialised glassware and apparatus for research and teaching purposes.
The BBC’s One Show recently came by to film Gayle in action and talk to her about her work. As one of a small number of glassblowers working in a university, Gayle’s work sees her creating a variety of glass forms for different purposes and her passion for the craft comes through in her knowledge of the history of glasswork, as well as the science of it.
During the filming, Gayle assembled a heat exchanger (referred to as a coil condenser in the interview) in its entirety, demonstrating and explaining many of the techniques and methods she uses to meet the complex and often unusual requirements of our staff.
Scientific glassblowing is so much fun to watch. So amazing.
Gayle you are a legend. It's a pleasure to work with you!
I wish more universities would employ their own glass-blowers. My department had to spend almost 3 grand on several custom pieces I needed and they were made in the US. Granted this was 10 years ago and I'm not aware of how many scientific glass-blowers currently operate in the UK so maybe things have changed.
Things have not got much better apart from me recently starting a new glassblowing company
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Truly a wonderfull sight. Thank you for the video. A gem.
I'm on my third year apprenticeship as a glass blower and I love it!
Good job
I applied for a trainee position and I'm really hoping I get the job, it just looks so fun.
Retired Master Sci/Med Glassblower. Loved my career and love glass! Thank you for the video!
This is fantastic.
Intit just ! Fantastic stuff ! Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
I blow glass in a studio in my backyard. Its a lifestyle with the cost of everything🎉. Im working on building an oxygen concentrator array to supply my own oxygen to reduce the overhead. I create art but greatly admire you scientific folks
👍👍👍 super job.
This is actually extremely helpful thank you gayle
Trabajar en esto es lo mas hermoso y puedes dar rienda suelta a tu imaginación. La química es hermosa.
You are so lucky to be doing that. I am a metal worker I am a Potter and an amateur chemist and I need to make custom apparatus all the time and I want to learn blast blowing even on a small scale just so I can make some simple things that I need. Unfortunately some of that equipment looks horrifyingly expensive and I'm sure it is is there any advice that you could give me?
Heard borosilicate can be tricky and needs annealing, hoping to procure a kiln and torch soon because I have come by some antique apparatus and some pieces need mending.
Brilliant ! Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
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I'm completely in love
Good job
Very nice
Hello very chooose video, nice to look at when work brings Udovolstviya . I tagesablauf not long removed Rodik .I wish you upehov in all good health
I respect. I'm a person in the same industry in Korea.
Am also glassblower in india. I make beakers cylinders and flask
I want to learn this work
que belleza!
It’s definitely revived
Great job, sister
I wish my education had a glassblower there to repair (slightly) broken glass and make special pieces. But sadly I can only order from catalogues.
Could you please help me😊 which lab glass has a higher heat sensitive than other glass.?
Tamputer degree 30 to 50 Thank you
fused quartz is top dog when it comes to heat and cold shock you can heat it up and dip in watere and it wont crack
Could someone please help me with a question? I tried to get into glass blowing and it turned out to be a crack. My question is when I was younger there was a glass blower that use to come to the shopping mall in my town. He would make may beautiful things from glass. He would finish them and the customer would take them as soon as they cooled. I watched closely and I never observed him putting the glass creations in an oven to anneal the glass, and they never cracked. When I tried glass blowing myself many years later I was able to make some really nice items but as they cooled they cracked and cracked. Where am I going wrong? I thinking it maybe the kind of glass rods I purchased on the internet. If that is the case what type of glass rods do I need to use to avoid having to purchase an oven to anneal the glass items I make, or is there a step with the torch I am missing? Thank you for any help you can give.
Roger, you need to cool your work with less hot flame. Read more about flame control and where and when it is hotter and cooler. Once you done with working on the glass, depending how big the work is, you need to anneal it with cooler flame. Big works would require proper annealing in a kiln. Also - you must pay attention if the glass you’re using is of the same compostion. If it’s not - then differences in thermal expansion would shatter any attempts of joining them. Get a cheapest glassblowing handbook off the Internet and all this will be explained properly. Good luck!
Can Gayle have her own series please.
You should come to the U.S. for an ASGS symposium
Do you make bongs?
Pretty cool I'll say.
we need more girl glass blowers...
Im glass blower
Shes been making bongs her whole life...no Gatorade bottle necessary.
Im glass blower plece sponser me
Tanuj where in India ?