The History of GardunoGlass
Garduno Glass is a one man glass operation.
Starting in 1995, Daniel Louis Garduno has been making and creating new forms of useful pieces of art glass and novelties.
It all started in the summer of 1995, when his long time friend, Brian Bentley, moved in with him and his daughter. Bentley had just returned from Eugene, Oregon where he was an apprentice of Red who was an apprentice of the great Bob Snodgrass. The deal was Brian would teach Dan if he would invest into the equipment to get them both working. This was the beggining of a whole new realm of glass art form. There were a couple others who had started out at that time here. Jasper had started making a name for himself as well as Rob Waits.
Their first studio was inside Brian's dad's barn down in Los Lunas, dirt floors and spiders every where. They used a Victor welding torch and metal forming tools instead of graphite. Vermiculite was used instead of a kiln for cooling their first beads, pendants, and pipes. At that time glass was a whole new thing, no one knew anything about it here in Albuquerque,NM. Clear glass was purchased through scientific glass blowers at first, so silver and gold fuming was the only way to put color into the glass, until they came across Chrystal Myths in the phone book. That's when they met the legendary Lewis Wilson who had invited them to his studio to purchase some colored glass scraps for the first time. And that's when they saw a master at work for the first time. Lewis was working on an Indian Dancer with Wings, solid clear glass about 8" in length, which is huge for borosilicate glass work. After being turned on to some valuable knowledge of proper set ups and ventilation they were on their ways to becoming the fore fathers of Albuquerque glass blowing, and the overwhelming supply of quality Pyrex pipes.
Garduno Glass started out making marbles, beads, pendants, and simple pipes.
Now Garduno Glass is known for quality glass body jewelry, pipes and adult toys throughout the US.
GardunoGlass is also the creator of the necklace one-hitter, the snowboarders journey pipe, the pocket water pipe, pocket hookah, the dolphin pipe, the UFO pipe, the Pyrex Connects pipe, the smokeable chess set, the mini glow stick pendant, dred wraps, hot air balloon pendants, color changing cone incense covers, and floating marble table top fountains.
