These unbelievable blown glassful rayguns are part of a series called ( appropriately enough ) Raygunz , created by Canadian master glassblower Jeff Burnette .
Burnette have a massive glassmaking warehouse in Vancouver ’s East Side , which he ’s dubbed Joe Blow Glassworks . You learn more about Burnette ’s oeuvre , which let in goblets and glass sculptures , on the Joe Blow Glassworks website . I was lucky enough to see a few of Burnette ’s rayguns on display in Vancouver over the weekend , and when you see them in individual , they practically beam with muscularity and strange etheric vibrations .
write Burnette of the Raygunz serial publication :
These are shove along and manipulated hot glass objects . A crystal clear color is picked up on the pipe , then clear shabu is gathered on top . The slice is then blown out and shaped to the desired form . Coloured bits are added . Once the bit are in position , the handle and trigger are applied to the piece , the Raygun is then knocked off the blowgun into the annealer to cool over a fifteen - hour cycle .
Once cool , the composition is ground and sent out for silvering or dispatch . The Raygun is a bubble with a transparent colour on the interior . The silvering is a solvent of silver nitrate , ammonium hydroxide , and distilled water that is mixed and stream into the open end of the gunman . The silver control stick to the inside of the piece just like a mirror . The last step is chemically bind a machine untarnished brand end to the piece .
viaJoe Blow Glassworks .
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