I used an old lab glass blowing book and an old welding torch with a fat burner, got an oxygen concentrator which kicks ass, basically self taught myself, is very fun. tried to put some pics up of my work area put couldnt for some reason, funky old torch tied onto a heavy wooden workbench with bailing wire, the bench is covered in tiles, I use a tiny kiln that looks like a space helmet but it's hella old and not cranking like it used to, also have a hotplate that I stick a fiber blanket wrapped coffee can full of vermiculite onto for cooling things off, turn the hot plate up full blast and bury the pieces in the vermiculite and leave it on for like 10 hours and turn off. I make a lot of my tools myself cause they're so expensive, if you can find big sheets or blocks of graphite then snatch them up, it works easily and can be made into all sorts of neat things like marble molds. hot fingers are very easy to make from cut up coat hangers. silver for fuming i suggest flea markets, broken jewelry, comemorative coinage like you so often see advertised on tv, higher end silverware thats actualy silver and not just silver plated. the silver plated copper wire they sell in bead stores produces an odd rose color with hints of silver yellow blue that my friends seem to like a lot, i dont. if you have lots of short end pieces of color rods stick them in a canvas bag and beat them with a hammer, then get some sheet metal and different sized nails, punch holes with the nails in the sheet metal to make sieves small, medium and large holes to sort the crushed glass into more even frits. if somthing isnt working slow down and rotation is everything, those are the important parts.
how much does it all cost? are the tanks very expensive and how long do they last? how do you sell it? I seriously want to work with glass when I'm older.
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Instead of delving into it head first, why not do some preliminary internet research on glass blowing? I have never worked with glass myself but I did do metalworking, and I was absolutely clueless at first. It gets easier if you take a class and read up a little bit about the types of equipment you need (especially if it separates beginner, intermediate, and advanced equipment). Here's a basic guide on glass art: Glass Art Guide
i started playing with glass a few years ago when i lived next door to a glassblower. i stopped when i moved back home. then last year my mom and friend bought me a torch, a few tools, some glass and some fiber blankets. started playin around and making a few beads. then at the folk fest last year met a couple glassblowers and was talking to them about my set up and that i was teaching myself. talked to them a few times as friends throughout the year and this year at fest they decided they wanted to apprentice me. so i spent a couple weeks camping near thier shop and they were having me blow bubbles and making turtles lol. but i had alot of fun once i found out water is your friend. stay hydrated!!!!!
go with a national 3a torch and a copper annealing kiln and throw an analog pyrometer on it. that will get you going
