HomeMadeModern | Solid Glass Fire Pit @HomeMadeModern | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Glass fire pit made out of solid glass bricks! Thanks to Henson Shaving for sponsoring this video! Go to hensonshaving.com/homemademodern to order yours
Update! After listening to the observations from people with far more experience I think the experiment will end here and I do NOT recommend recreating this experiment. It seems that while it could be fine with controlled parameters or with a gas burner, the imprecise nature of a fuel like wood creates the opportunity for overloading and the design calibration of distance to fuel should not be relied upon. I was perhaps leaning too much on the 90 minute fire rating from the manufacturer which was well documented but I have seen too many last minute substitutions for materials that appear the same and the cheaper manufacturers documentation was less convincing. I am still curious about the parameters of a glass “explosion” and please weigh in with additional insights!
The idea of an all glass fire pit intrigued me ever since I discovered that solid glass bricks existed. I have heard repeatedly that glass will break under thermal shock and that an all glass fire wouldn’t work. In this video I test out these solid glass bricks on two different fire pits and tested them. I also experiment with cutting glass and drilling holes in solid glass using my angle grinder and diamond bits. Later in the video I interview glass artist Weston Lambert about working with solid glass.
Links:
Check out Weston Lambert’s youtube channel here:
youtube.com/@westonlambert
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminuyeda
For additional projects and information check out our website:
homemade-modern.com
Glass fire pit made out of solid glass bricks! Thanks to Henson Shaving for sponsoring this video! Go to hensonshaving.com/homemademodern to order yours
Update! After listening to the observations from people with far more experience I think the experiment will end here and I do NOT recommend recreating this experiment. It seems that while it could be fine with controlled parameters or with a gas burner, the imprecise nature of a fuel like wood creates the opportunity for overloading and the design calibration of distance to fuel should not be relied upon. I was perhaps leaning too much on the 90 minute fire rating from the manufacturer which was well documented but I have seen too many last minute substitutions for materials that appear the same and the cheaper manufacturers documentation was less convincing. I am still curious about the parameters of a glass “explosion” and please weigh in with additional insights!
The idea of an all glass fire pit intrigued me ever since I discovered that solid glass bricks existed. I have heard repeatedly that glass will break under thermal shock and that an all glass fire wouldn’t work. In this video I test out these solid glass bricks on two different fire pits and tested them. I also experiment with cutting glass and drilling holes in solid glass using my angle grinder and diamond bits. Later in the video I interview glass artist Weston Lambert about working with solid glass.
Links:
Check out Weston Lambert’s youtube channel here:
youtube.com/@westonlambert
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/benjaminuyeda
For additional projects and information check out our website:
homemade-modern.com
