This bowl is called “suckbowl” not because of its quality but because of how it’s made. David demonstrated it, and I knew I had to try it out. You start by applying color around a bubble, then blow the bubble into as big a sphere as you can manage. Getting it nice and hot, you pull it out of the gloryhole and suck, to collapse the sphere in on itself. This takes timing, because then you have to jack it off the pipe and use tongs to place it onto a still-soft cookie foot.
As you can see, mine got a little off center when I sucked the air out of it. I felt sad, but I wasn’t the only one who had problems. The cool thing about making a bowl like this is that the lines criscross for a nice effect, and the cookie foot provides a smooth base with no need of grinding. The bad thing is that the rim is thicker than i’d like.
