In September 2016 I took a class from Micah Evans and Stephan Pierce at the Pilchuck Glass School. I looked around for a lathe to fool around on and found my options limited.

In his home glass studio in Shakopee, Eric Ross fuses bubbles of molten glass over a bunsen burner on an industrial lathe that spins and spins. He blows into a long tube, shaping the bubbles into ...