hi all
I am really enjoying lampworking, but I only seem to be able to create the same shapes, i.e a bit rounded and rolled on my marver. How would I go about making square shapes or lentils, do I need presses to do these different shapes??? Thanks for our help
Tammy.

for lentils etc i think you would need a press but you can make tubes and bi-cones with your marver and some practice, if you've got any lampworking books have a look in them and see if there's a tutorial on making different shapes

Make a round bead and roll it out on your marver, voila, a small barrel.
make two round beads, roll it out....longer barrel.

Make a long barrel and wind a round of glass at one end, roll on your marver at an angle and you have a cone bead.

You can make a bicone by making a barrel and wrapping a loop around the middle.

A lot of it is gravity and marver shaping. For lentils you will need a press, for a rudimentary press try a tea spoon!! Or sugar tongs

And you can make ice cube shapes by flattening each side one at a time on your marver

Thats very good food for thought thanks, Julie, Tan and Caroline, now I'm going to play with teaspoons tonight!!

Use the tweezers I sent you to tweak bits proud of the bead and try some organics

Or use the paddle tweezers and make a round bead, put four or five blobs of glass aroundthe outside and squeeze each one with the paddle tweezers to make petals......voila flower