[dalke]

Well, that shows I know more about scientific glass than recreational and medical.

Still, lightlyused referred to "several glass blowers in that community" who lightlyused personally knew. My comment was in response to that. I seriously doubt that those are the ones who make high end pieces.

Bong making is not hard. It's one of the things that chemistry undergrads often do if they take a glass blowing class and the staff lets them get away with it. (Sometimes the lab teacher will even anneal your 'project'.)

I can be good enough at carpentry to make bookshelves for me and my friends. That doesn't mean I can build a good staircase.

Similarly, it would be hard to lure me away to, say, a job developing cloud computing infrastructure.