Borosilicate glass implosion pendant by Bill Grout GTT Cheetah torch, lampwork

Bill Grout from Aspen Hot Glass is making a borosilicate glass pendant with a GTT Cheetah torch. Visit our Etsy store here: The pressed dimple pattern is created with the help of a florist frog found at craft stores in the floral department. This style has been commonly referred to as an implosion pendant which was detailed in a great tutorial published in FLOW MAGAZINE (this technique has since been described as compression. ) Using the difference in viscosity at temperature to produce a three dimensional fold generates the three dimensional look. I did a short remix showing finished pendants at the end: For more about our glass world check us out Aspen Hot Glass Bill and Rae Grout are full time artists from Corvallis Montana. We are science geeks to glassblowers. They both have technical backgrounds in the high tech avioni