Glass Blowing: How to Re-Gather - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. My initial gather, the pipe, was my structure, where I gathered the glass on my pipe. My next gather and subsequent gathers after this, the glass itself, will be my structure for the glass I am about to gather. So, I cool this down so that it is strong enough to support the molten glass that I am about to gather over this. So, you will see that when I do it. So, I go back in here, into the crucible of hot, hot, hot honey. I come back out and now I see that the volume of glass at the end of my stick has increased exponentially because of the size of the glass.
