Gold Heart Perfume Bottle

24. Heat the glass in the glory hole and place a jack mark in the glass bubble with the blades of the jacks (figure I).

25. Flash the entire glass piece in the glory hole for three seconds and then continue heating only the lower half of the glass until it begins to move. While rotating the blowpipe, take it out of glory hole and hold it vertically so that the hot glass begins to elongate.

26. Rotating in the same direction take the blowpipe back to the glory hole to flash and heat the tip again. Elongate using the same method as in step 25 until it forms the desired bottle shape.

27. Flash all the glass again and then heat only the very bottom of the piece. Flash quickly and flatten the bottom of the piece with the back of the jacks. Straighten the sides of the glass perfume bottle with the blades of the jacks.

28. Flash again and reheat the bottom slightly and make sure the bottom of the piece is flat with the back of the jacks. Blow very gently on the bottom center point for five seconds with the soffietta.

29. Gather a small amount of clear glass from the furnace onto the end of one of the punties and shape on the marver.

30. Grab the punty rod with the glassblowing tweezers and push the hot glass against the metal rail for just a second. Blow on the same glass very hard for just a second or two and immediately push it onto the bottom of the perfume bottle. While rotating the blowpipe, use the tweezers against the punty rod to make sure it’s centered.

31. Insert the tips of the tweezers in some water and touch the jack line in several places. Quickly hit the blowpipe with the big end of the tweezers to release the perfume bottle from the blowpipe.

32. Immediately flash the entire perfume bottle in the glory hole for three seconds and then heat just the neck until very hot.

34. Flash in the glory hole for three seconds. Use the cold part of the jack blades around the jack line, then pick up the diamond shears and place around the jack line, cooling it. Lift the punty rod with your left hand and diamond shears on the jack line off of the bench rails and have an assistant knock off the pulled part of the glass with the big end of the tweezers.

35. Flash again in the glory hole and then heat up the neck until very hot, being careful not to heat too much so that the hole closes up!! Flash again.

37. After reheating the flair and opening slightly, place both blades of the round jacks inside the small hole and rotate the blowpipe to make sure the hole is round and approximately 1/4 inch in diameter. Flash in the glory hole.