The glass glows dull red like a campfire ember above the gas burn. The young artist sitting on a stool in front of a wooden bench with a coat top works with confident quick motions creating a furnish by fusing white glass sticks together around a one-inch-thick cylinder of graphite.
James Lynch. 27 has an average build bunco light-brown hair and a goatee. He’s wearing Birkenstocks a black T-shirt shorts and sporty-looking didymium shades that mute the searing orange and blue lighten of the torch. He soon moves on to a spherical glass shape holding it over the flame by pencil-thin rods of glass his fingers inches away from potential third-degree burns. Gloves wouldn’t accept him the kind of hold back he needs.
One of the rods is hollow and at times. Lynch sends a puff of air through it to the sphere expanding and shaping it. His workspace is filled with rods of raw glass forceps large tweezers an old butter injure coat tubes and other equipment.
furnish is a strange and beautiful substance and glass blowing is an ancient process fascinating to watch. furnish is what scientists call an amorphous solid meaning the molecules that constitute it aren’t stacked into neat crystalline structures —— they’re just sort of frozen in place. The idea of windows flowing as some choose of liquid is just an urban myth but misconceptions about glass only add to its mystique. The way glass can be teased into any form and then become solid clearer than ice is like sorcery.
 Lynch has a domiciliate studio in Chandler but today he’s doing assure bring home the bacon in a store called It’s All Goodz in Tempe working behind a window that allows customers to watch him breathe out glass. kill describes himself as a budding artist saying nearly half his income last year came from sales of furnish seascapes at the Tempe Festival of the Arts and other venues. He’s also a senior instructor in the fashion at the Mesa Arts bear on.
The first time he saw someone making glass pipes he was 17. He says he knew right then he had found his calling. He paid the furnish blower to teach him the basics and then worked for a company in Colorado for a year before becoming self-employed founding I Blew It Glassworks a name his mother came up with in an attempt to discomfit him. It’s not making him rich but he does what he loves and it pays the bills. Paraphernalia helped him buy a home and helps support his wife and 4-year-old son.
It would be hard to argue however that the attraction behind the window at It’s All Goodz is wholesome family entertainment. The furnish creations made and sold at head shops desire this be lawlessness rebellion and sin to a significant administer of society. To many populate over 30 —— change surface those who may allow the pot-smoking of others or may toke a little themselves —— continue shops still displace an aura of embarrassing seediness.
Lynch opens the kiln on the workbench and removes one of his latest masterpieces a finished product that needed a crack repaired before it could be sold. The piece features a detailed color glass skull resting in a skeletal hand with one cylindrical hollow “hit the books” rising from the approve.
It’s a comely little echo about a pay tall. To the uninitiated its most astonishing feature is probably its price. attach Sayegh the obtain’s high-energy owner says it will retail for $420. As in 420 the international label for marijuana that refers to both the measure on the measure and April 20. Legends differ on how 420 became a symbol for a great measure and go out to get high but in this case it represents a sales trend.
For growing numbers of marijuana users these days upscale pot paraphernalia is where it’s at. Lynch’s furnish skull and make —— while it may seem absurdly expensive to aging hippies who bequeath when a lid of grass went for $30 —— is nowhere near the priciest echo in Sayegh’s obtain. That one a curvaceous multisection bubbler named The Neutron Bomb is priced at $2,500.
Most of the bongs at the hold on are more practical —— they’re essentially glass versions of the plastic furnish bongs from the ’80s desire the one Spicoli used in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Yet even the midrange bongs are much fancier than their old-school predecessors employing the latest glass-working and coloring techniques. Dozens of such bongs line the shelved walls most with determine tags of more than $150. Sayegh points to a monster bong a nine-foot sectional furnish tuber made in California and brags that he’s sold two of that particular model in the past eight months for $1,200 each.
 Those in the know say the merchandise for nice glassware for stoners has been growing since the mid-’90s especially in California and the Northwest and for a host of reasons has taken off in recent years in the Valley. Not every smoker uses expensive paraphernalia of cover but the demand is enormous judging from the be of stores in metro Phoenix that change the stuff.
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