Gold Heart Perfume Bottle

Materials:

glass furnace
small glory hole
annealer
marver
pipe warmer
color oven
knock-off box
glassblowing bench
chisel
mallet
blowpipe
6 - 8 1/2" punty rods
stand (to hang punty rods and blowpipes)
diamond shears
straight shears
soffietta
glassblowing protective mitts
glassblowing tweezers
small tweezers (cosmetic)
8" or 9" jacks
8" or 9" round jacks
beeswax
3K gold foil (not gold leaf)
heart punch
2 pieces of 8-1/2" X 11" bond paper
small flat gift box (type used for jewelry) include cotton stuffing
half of a 1/2" thick disk from cherry red color rod
#2 cherry red glass frit
tile nippers
Mapp gas hand torch
spoon
round pointed knife
grit
water
paper towels
dental water jet
large empty coffee can
refractory ceramic fiber
air compressor and hose
4 newspaper spreads, folded and soaked in water

Steps:

1. Pre-make two gold hearts by placing gold foil between two pieces of paper. Punch through the paper and gold foil with the heart punch. Store the paper and gold hearts together on the cotton pad inside a jewelry gift box. Add more cotton to prevent the hearts from sliding around in the box if there is room in the box.

3. Break off approximately 1/2-inch thick disk from the cherry red color rod (cherry rod appears yellow-looking) with a chisel and mallet (figure A). Hold this small disk between your feet on the floor so that the disk is vertical (figure B). Position the chisel on the top midpoint of the disk and hit sharply with the top of the mallet to break it in two.

4. Place cherry red color rod in the color oven to heat for approximately 15 minutes.

5. Spread out 1/4 cup of #2 cherry red frit on the marver in a 2" x 4" rectangle shape.

6. Remove the blowpipe from the pipe warmer and heat the tip in the glory hole until the tip glows red.

8. Rotate the blowpipe on the glory hole’s yoke. Heat only the tip of the blowpipe and the color disk in the glory hole until it has completely melted.

9. Immediately sit at the glassblowing bench with the blowpipe placed on its rails. While rotating the blowpipe up and down the rails, use the back of the jacks to shape the melted color into a gumdrop shape (figure D). Allow the color to cool so that it is no longer fluid and becomes very solid.

10. Collect one small gather of clear glass from the furnace over the color; shape on the marver slightly and then roll just the tip over the #2 frit on the marver (figure E).

11. Heat the frit on the clear glass in the glory hole until it has completely melted. Create swirls in the melted frit with the tips of the glassblowing tweezers. Push the tips in and turn (figure F), repeat three to four times around the entire surface of the melted frit.