Airducked Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Did a machine do this? I have 2 marbles that are like this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treetiger Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 yes. These are called "Cold Rolls". Either the gob of molten glass, the spiral cork screw rollers, or a combo of both might have been slightly cooler and the glass simply wrinkled and folded instead of incorporating itself into a smooth surfaced sphere. They can be kinda cool since no two are ever alike. It also looks like part of it is a 'drizzly tail' due to the same situation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Looks like a combination of dull shears and cold rollers. Reminder: Marble-making wasn't rocket science. It was a crude, sub-cent per marble process. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 That's a drizzle. Long strings of glass get pulled away from the gobs of glass when workers make adjustments or remove rocks and things like that, then they fall on the rollers and get picked up by the hot gobs or fall back onto the gob and don't get smoothed out. I wish I could post a video, I took one where this was happening at DAS when the orifice on the tank got clogged. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airducked Posted February 6 Author Report Share Posted February 6 17 hours ago, cheese said: That's a drizzle. Long strings of glass get pulled away from the gobs of glass when workers make adjustments or remove rocks and things like that, then they fall on the rollers and get picked up by the hot gobs or fall back onto the gob and don't get smoothed out. I wish I could post a video, I took one where this was happening at DAS when the orifice on the tank got clogged. I wish you could send a video too!! I would love to see it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 On 2/5/2024 at 12:52 PM, Airducked said: Did a machine do this? I have 2 marbles that are like this. There are a bunch of posts on drizzle here on this forum, "Have Fun" LINK :: https://marbleconnection.com/search/?q=drizzle&quick=1&type=forums_topic&nodes=20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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