Blowpipe Basics: Off Mandrel Hollow Beads
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Blowpipe Basics: Off Mandrel Hollow Beads Foundations

👋 Welcome to your ISGB Workshop
Welcome- Blowpipe Basics a foundation in hollow beads using the Italian methods.
🔥 Meet your instructor - Aja Vaz of Wandering Design Spirits
❓ Asking questions and posting photos & how to address questions comments and add photos to your workshop
Zoom Session March 28, 2026 1:00pm Eastern
Workshop Set Up and Tools

Supply List with Links
Downloadable PDF Supply List
Workbench Tool Placement
Tools used within this workshop
Using Hot Fingers
Tool Maintenence

Blowpipe Cleaning
Basic Blown Bead

Lets make our first bead!
More options to create holes on your beads
Fixing Mistakes
Basic Round Bobble Bead

Bobble Bead
Using a Straight Heavy Wall Mandrel
Share your work and ask questions on the basic round bead
Encased Round Hollow

Encased Round Hollow
Tungsten Pick Holes
Encased Cube Bead

Cube Hollow
Share your progress and ask questions on encasing your beads
Curved Tube Bead

Curved Tube Bead
Tapered Curved Tube Bead
Exploring Breakaway Methods
Share your progress and ask questions on the tube beads
Trouble Shooting

Trouble Shooting
Downloadable Step by Step Guide
Step by Step Illustration Guide
Diamond Shears close up in use
BONUS: Tumble Etching your Beads

Tumble Etching

Welcome- Blowpipe Basics a foundation in hollow beads using the Italian methods.