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✨ Frit Happens 🎨 Frit is crushed glass in different sizes, used by artists to decorate and layer color in marbles and other glass art. From fine powders to bold chips, frit creates patterns, textures, and depth that make each piece unique.

Crucible Collection From the depths of the crucible, we gather molten glass and give it new life. Each marble in the Crucible Collection is rolled to resemble elegant glass stones, carrying the unique character of its origin.

😎 I came to chew bubblegum and melt glass… and Two marbles from trash to flash 📸 🍬 (chewing gum for scale and size...)

Modern Day Cullet Box Glass fragments from different days, saved at the edge of the flame. Tomorrow, they’ll roll into marbles not factory made, but hand-spun, one at a time. 💫From chaos comes character. Last Daze / Marco

🎨 Northstar Stack: Color Testing for the Global Marble Hunt I’ve received a selection of rods from Northstar Glass and TAG in Portland, Oregon each one labeled, separated, and ready for flame testing. These colors will be twisted, spun, and formed into marbles for the upcoming Global Marble Hunt. From cadmiums to experimentals, Northstar has long guided the borosilicate world. Now, their palette becomes part of this worldwide event 1 color per marble, or blended in new combinations discovered through the torch. 🌍 North Star… is color Thank you to the teams at Northstar and TAG for fueling this work. More colors coming. More marbles to roll. Let’s spin. —Marco A. Salem, Oregon

🧩 Every piece was once bound for the trash. Now, it’s treasure... permanent proof that the fire never wastes a single moment.Trash Into Treasure. What you're looking at isn't just glass trash it's evidence. Evidence that something happened today in the studio. A swirl of stormy steel teal and silvered chaos red-and-black vortex sealed under clear 🌌 “Blurple” Colorway: Blue • Purple • Midnight Fade *Mib soft purple blue fog like Leftover cane. Broken tips. Failed starts. 🔥 This isn’t the clean, polished glass of galleries. This is "Last Daze" glass

Each piece in the “Last Daze” series is born in the twilight of the torch. These marbles are made from the scraps, the color tests, the strange ends of rods the ghosts of the day’s experiments. They may carry scuffs, fingerprints, tool marks. No plan, no polish just the raw, unfiltered last daze of creation. Each marble is a time capsule of the daze. A piece of evidence that something happened today. A messy, magic, End-Of-Days monument.

🚦 Update: The First Race Track Has Arrived 🏁 The first race track has landed and is ready for assembly. The first sets of handmade racing marbles are rolling out—custom colors, exotic patterns, and the beginnings of future teams. What’s Next: More tracks under construction Handmade marbles in new colors and designs The first elimination races coming soon HMRA – Handmade Marble Racing Association Handmade. Colorful. Competitive. Built to roll.

🏆 Handmade Marble Racing Association 🏆 The Handmade Marble Racing Association (HMRA) creates and races handmade glass marbles forged in fire, custom in color, and built as both art and racer. With unique tracks, documented events, and growing clubs, HMRA turns craftsmanship into competition and marbles into champions. Handmade. Colorful. Competitive. Built to roll.