How The Dolphin Is Made

The first step in making a dolphin is to begin

heating up a cool pyrex glass rod.

Next, Jay attaches a rod to what is going to

be the dolphin's head. This is what he uses to

hold the hot dolphin while making it.

Jay then shapes the dolphin's body by getting a

large part of the glass hot.

Here, Jay is using a flattener to help

get the curve of the dolphin body to just

the right shape.

 

Then, Jay attaches the dolphin's tail fins,

using a smaller rod.

After the tail fins, Jay uses a smaller rod

to attach a dorsal fin.

Finally, Jay uses a small rod to attach the two

side fins to the dolphin body.

And here is the finished piece,

after the holding rod has been removed.