How to make a simple glass frit pendant:
1. You start with a small ball of molten glass on the tip of an 8 mm clear glass rod (constantly spinning so the glass does not droop and so the glass will stay centered on the glass rod).
2. Next you take the molten rounded ball of glass and get it up to about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit making the glass a smooth white color and you press it slowly (without spinning) on top of a medium sized frit.
3. After you press the glass onto the frit you must pick the now flattened piece of glass up and start spinning again. At the same time you will be placing the glass back into the flame to heat it up so the frit will melt in.
4. Next after all of the frit is melted into the clear glass you need to now press the glass onto a marver pad (flat piece of graphite made for pressing and flattening glass) so the bottom of the now forming pendant becomes smooth.
5. After that you will apply the color. The way you apply the color is you first heat up the piece of glass and the rod of colored glass. Then you - in a way - draw the color onto the glass in a spiral from the outside in.
6. Finally after the last step you will smooth the back on the marver pad the same way you did earlier so the back of the pendant isn’t rough on the persons chest.
7. Now you will apply a puny (which is where you heat up the tip of a small thin rod, and you stick it to warm glass. This makes it were you can easily remove the puny later) at a 90 degree angle from the main rod.
8. After the last step, you will heat up the main rod and pull it from the main body of the pendant.
9. Then you will smooth the front of the pendant were you took off the main rod to form the lens of the pendant. (this will magnify the frit you applied earlier and make it look look it is jumping out at you)
10. Next you will weld a colored glass rod or clear glass rod to the opposite side your puny is on
11. Then you will cut or melt the glass rod off about 2 inches away from the pendant so you are left with a 2 in rod sticking off the top of your pendant.
12. Finally, you will melt the 2 in glass rod on the top of your pendant to form a small ball that will later form the hoop that the pendant will hang from.
13.At last you will heat up the ball of glass at the top of the pendant and you will use glassblowing tweezers and flip the ball of glass around to the back to form the loop. (This will look like a small tunnel.)
14. Finally, you will remove the puny from the bottom holding the pendant with the tweezers at the hoop of the pendant, and you will melt the mark the puny made into the pendant.
15. Place the pendant into the kiln and you are done.
1. You start with a small ball of molten glass on the tip of an 8 mm clear glass rod (constantly spinning so the glass does not droop and so the glass will stay centered on the glass rod).
2. Next you take the molten rounded ball of glass and get it up to about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit making the glass a smooth white color and you press it slowly (without spinning) on top of a medium sized frit.
3. After you press the glass onto the frit you must pick the now flattened piece of glass up and start spinning again. At the same time you will be placing the glass back into the flame to heat it up so the frit will melt in.
4. Next after all of the frit is melted into the clear glass you need to now press the glass onto a marver pad (flat piece of graphite made for pressing and flattening glass) so the bottom of the now forming pendant becomes smooth.
5. After that you will apply the color. The way you apply the color is you first heat up the piece of glass and the rod of colored glass. Then you - in a way - draw the color onto the glass in a spiral from the outside in.
6. Finally after the last step you will smooth the back on the marver pad the same way you did earlier so the back of the pendant isn’t rough on the persons chest.
7. Now you will apply a puny (which is where you heat up the tip of a small thin rod, and you stick it to warm glass. This makes it were you can easily remove the puny later) at a 90 degree angle from the main rod.
8. After the last step, you will heat up the main rod and pull it from the main body of the pendant.
9. Then you will smooth the front of the pendant were you took off the main rod to form the lens of the pendant. (this will magnify the frit you applied earlier and make it look look it is jumping out at you)
10. Next you will weld a colored glass rod or clear glass rod to the opposite side your puny is on
11. Then you will cut or melt the glass rod off about 2 inches away from the pendant so you are left with a 2 in rod sticking off the top of your pendant.
12. Finally, you will melt the 2 in glass rod on the top of your pendant to form a small ball that will later form the hoop that the pendant will hang from.
13.At last you will heat up the ball of glass at the top of the pendant and you will use glassblowing tweezers and flip the ball of glass around to the back to form the loop. (This will look like a small tunnel.)
14. Finally, you will remove the puny from the bottom holding the pendant with the tweezers at the hoop of the pendant, and you will melt the mark the puny made into the pendant.
15. Place the pendant into the kiln and you are done.