Greetings!
I'm Karolen Deupree, a lampwork glass bead maker
living in the beautiful red rock country of Sedona, Arizona.
I melt glass rods with an oxygen/propane torch
and
wrap the molten glass around a clay-coated stainless steel mandrel:
"Creative
minds are seldom tidy"
Each
bead is made one at a time, then slowly cooled to room temperature
(annealed)
in a digitally-controlled kiln over a 10-hour period.
When
the glass is cool, it is removed from the mandrel, cleaned,
and voila, a bead!