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Glass Blowing - Is It Too Dangerous?

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Glass Blowing is a very popular hobby but there are many people who would love to try it but are a bit scared due to the danger aspect.  This is made worse by the many articles on the internet claiming how dangerous this hobby can be, so let's take a closer look at the art of glass blowing to see if it really is too dangerous to do.

I'm not going to kid you, the fact is that there is some danger involved in the art of glass blowing, after all there is extreme heat involved in melting the glass to be able to shape it into the desired shapes.  Any situation that involves great heat will have some risk. (more...)