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Glass blowing for scientific instruments is an artisan craft and can literally be done in a shed (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Keld@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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It is also considered an endangered craft. Some scientific instruments, if broken, cannot realistically be replaced in any reasonable time frame (or sometimes even at all).

People who take up glassblowing as a hobby are closer to being crucial to the world economy than most.

Just something to chew on.

It isn't like mind blowing or anything. But it sure is something.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had always assumed that this sort of thing was mechanized.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

exactly! And some of it is to be sure, but the fact that we (Very much including myself) just assume stuff is an industrial mechanised process because of our modern age and because it's intricate and then it's not is what is interesting.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I feel like if a mostly self-sufficient and ecologically neutral economic unit were to be made, glass making would easily be in the top 10 most important occupations.