Cheap for what you get — the materials were spendy, but the gal teaching it, who clearly knows her stuff, taught us for two hours, at something ridiculous like 8 bucks an hour…. practically a free class.

There’s a LOT of really gorgeous metalwork from Hungary I’d love to be able to add onto leather items… scrollwork and the like… and it’s looking like doing so is actually going to be relatively easy.  The basics aren’t hard — they just require a good, steady hand.  Which I don’t have.  Yet.

Okay, now THIS is cool.

Using your Weber to make glass?  Awesome.  BUT…. if I can hit 2k in a grill, it means that I can not merely make glass, but also fire my own ceramics.  All you need is to regulate the temperature curve so that you don’t shatter the stuff.

I love ceramics, and haven’t done any for years precisely b/c of lack of kiln access… so, quite cool.