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Summary: How to coat your entire jar with an additional clear coat following dragging color; tips, tricks and techniques for creating your own blown glass pieces in this free online art lesson on video taught by expert glass artisan Tom Wright.

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Tom Wright Tom Wright is the owner of "Ginger Bread Glass" and has worked in the warehouse of Delphi Glass. He has over two years of professional experience in fashionin... read more

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How to Apply Clear Coat in Glass Blowing

Hi, I'm Tom Wright from Gingerbread Glass and I'm here today to show you how to make a glass jar. Alright, now we're going to apply the clear to our future jar. I'm going to get a little flame going here, take our tube out. Let's get down to business. So with the clear, you pretty much just want to coat the whole thing. So just make sure you're thorough, that's all. Because if you do it good the first time, you don't have to go back and patch it up as you go. So by applying the clear, it will make our overall jar stronger. It will also magnify the color of the jar. You can pretty much put on as much clear as you want, I'm just going to do a single layer here for time constraints. But if you wanted to make it as thick as you wanted, depending on how big your torch was, you could just keep going with it. I'm running my flame really small here because of the colors.... you don't need a big flame, because I already stretched this clear glass. Also, with the lower temperature of the flame, make sure that when you are coating it with clear you're not heating up the actual tube and dragging the color and just making a mess of what you did on the underside.

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