Zanfirico Glass Sherlock Pipe

Amazing glass Sherlock pipe made with classic Italian glass blowing techniques with a modern twist.  So many steps to create this Sherlock. Here is some of the process. Making cane There are several different methods of making cane. In each, the fundamental technique is the same: a lump of glass, often containing some pattern of colored and clear glass, is heated in a furnace (glory hole) and then pulled, by means of a long metal rod (punty) attached at each end. As the glass is stretched out, it retains whatever cross-sectional pattern was in the original lump, but narrows quite uniformly along its length (due to the skill of the glassblowers doing the pulling, aided by the fact that if the glass becomes narrower at some point along the length, it cools more there and thus becomes stiffer). Cane is usually pulled until it reaches roughly the diameter of a pencil, when, depending on the size of the original lump, it may be anywhere from one to fifty feet in length. After cooling, it is