. 🪄🔥 Marble Making 099: Shaping Glass Shaping Marbles 🔮💎

[MarcoArellano]

🔥🔮 Marble Making 099

 

This isn’t 101… this is 099 the prerequisite. Where every marble journey begins

 

 

🔥🔮 Marble Making 099: The Maria Method

Here are the steps laid out in glass, showing the path from the very beginning all the way to a finished marble.

It starts with a glass rod, gathered and heated in the flame.

From there, I press the rod to form a Maria a flat, coin like disk that becomes the base for shaping. A second Maria can be pushed to one side, a third to the other, even one in the middle. These Marias set the structure and give me points of control before rounding.

Once the Marias are stacked, I begin to round them up in the flame. Step by step, the flat disks soften and smooth into a sphere. Gravity helps as I turn and shift axes, letting the weight of the glass do the work.

When I’m satisfied with the shape, I remove the punty, polish away tool marks in the flame, and finish balancing the marble until it spins evenly in the hand.

The result is a round glass sphere made from the Maria method no color no decoration only rhythm, heat, and balance. A roadmap from rod to marble.

 Thank you to every teacher and glass master along my journey.

-Marco

 

[MarcoArellano]

Drawing of how to take a glowing gather of borosilicate glass and turn it into a clear marble.

[akroorka]

Good stuff Marco--keep it coming.

Marble--On!!

[Tommy]

Way cool thanks again