Twenty-five years at the torch.

David has worked in borosilicate glass — the same formulation known as “Pyrex,” prized for how it takes the torch — since 1999. That's more than 25 years turning raw rod and tube into finished, functional work, by hand, one gather at a time, out of his studio in Eugene, Oregon.

Hands working glass at the torch — Hands and flame — the craft close-up.

He came up in the pipe-making world, learning in an era that set the terms for how a generation of American lampworkers came into the craft. He's kept at it steadily ever since — more than twenty-five years at the torch.

A piece taking shape mid-build, flame behind it — Mid-build, flame still going.

The techniques are the vocabulary. Implosion, where a gather of color is collapsed inward until it reads as a single burst. Wig-wag reversal, alternating bands of color twisted from reversal cane. Millefiori, thousand-flower cane worked into the piece. And fume work, silver and gold vapor fused into the glass so the color shifts with the light.

Macro detail of an implosion technique piece — Implosion detail — gold core, teal rim. The palette in one frame.

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