its kinda crazy...

how do you think flat glass is made. what if i told you they fucking pour molten glass onto molten tin at like 1000° so it floats & forms a perfectly flat layer & then slowly bring the temperature down until the glass has hardened enough to exit the tin bath.

that's crazy but what about pre-1960 before that method was industrialized?? oh, they would just literally blow that shit into a cylinder and cut it down the middle & reheat it until it became pliable before smoothing it out no big deal.

ok cool, any other ways? yeah sure, imagine a baker's dozen of non-lads (sorry but she specifies no lads even though some of the non-lads are clearly not pulling their weight...) dumping scoops of molten glass onto a plate where it's mixed with a fork before being smoothed out between two hollow water-cooled rolling pins.

ooey gooey molten glass, why do you look so enticing yet frightening....

  • allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes when I have access to a big enough torch I fuck around with molten glass. Literally the other day I went through an entire $5 can of butane with absolutely nothing to show for it lololol.

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      yeah this has always been something I've wanted to do, especially since I am constantly collecting new glass vials every month with every prescription refill but I just know I will somehow get a bunch of ooey gooey molten glass on some exposed part of myself & wind up having to explain that I just wanted to play around. a victim of my own caution negative