I like to lay out the colors I plan to work with on my left (I'm left handed) and you can see in the picture of my work area that I have lots of thin glass stringers to the right. I do a lot of decorating with these thin stringers, which I have pulled from the original rods of glass. Once I'm ready to start I will light the torch and begin melting the end of the rod in the flame. In order to heat the glass evenly and keep it from dripping off of the rod once it becomes soft, I need to continuously spin the glass rod between my fingers until I'm ready to add it onto the mandrel.

 

 
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