Entry No. 62 — the Oklahoma City file — filed under: hands-on
Blown Opportunities
This is a borosilicate (lampworking) glass studio run out of a home shop in Moore, not the big-furnace kind of glassblowing most people picture. The owner walks you through the whole torch process first, demonstrating each step, then stays at your elbow as you shape your own piece. Alongside date-night and solo sessions, the studio openly works in unusual material like uranium glass and does collaborative cremation-glass keepsakes, which gives it a genuinely offbeat streak.
The story
Forget the giant industrial furnaces and heavy iron blowpipes you usually associate with glass studios. Blown Opportunities operates out of a private residential shop off Queensbury Road in Moore, focusing on torch-based lampworking. Instead of gathering liquid glass from a thousand-degree crucible, you sit directly at a bench with an oxygen-propane torch, melting and shaping solid borosilicate glass rods under close, one-on-one direction.
What really gives this home studio its offbeat edge is the material list. Alongside standard date-night ornament and keepsake sessions, the owner works with uranium glass—borosilicate glass colored with trace amounts of uranium dioxide that glows bright neon green under blacklight—and creates collaborative cremation glass pieces that incorporate ashes directly into molten glass keepsakes.
What it's like
You pull up to a quiet residential neighborhood in Moore for your scheduled appointment and head into the dedicated workshop space. The instructor breaks down safety protocols and demonstrates each heating and shaping step before putting the borosilicate rod into your hands, staying right at your elbow the entire hour to guide your movements. It is an intense, flame-focused hour where precise torch distance is everything, so wear long sleeves made of natural fibers like cotton (avoid synthetics) and book your evening appointment well in advance.
The move: Book the couples date-night session and spend an hour at the torch together turning molten borosilicate rods into a small glass piece you take home.
📍 Before you go By appointment only; couples date-night session runs about $100/hr. Closed Sundays; evening-heavy hours.
- 📍 Moore
- 💸 $$
- ⚡ Up for anything
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 1729 Queensbury Rd, Moore, OK 73160
Hours: Added 2026-06-23 — confirm current hours before you go.
⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.
Pair it with
- Winchester Drive-In Theatre — Follow up an evening at the torch in Moore with a double feature at OKC's last surviving drive-in theater, located just three miles north.
- Botanica San Cipriano — Pair your torch session with a visit to this traditional South OKC botanica specializing in folk remedies, saint candles, and handmade oils.
- Langston's Western Wear (haunted second floor) — Head into Stockyards City after your glass session to browse Western wear underneath a former 1919 dance hall space.
Good to know
How does lampworking differ from standard glassblowing?
Rather than pulling molten glass out of a giant furnace on a blowpipe, lampworking uses a tabletop torch to melt and shape solid borosilicate glass rods and tubes right at your workbench.
Do I need any prior torch experience?
No prior experience is needed. The instructor walks you through safety, demonstrates the technique, and guides your hands at the torch throughout the entire session.
How do appointments and pricing work?
Sessions are strictly by appointment, with a couples date-night class running around $100 per hour. The studio operates primarily during evening hours and is closed on Sundays.
What specialty glass options are offered?
Beyond basic torchwork projects, the studio works in blacklight-reactive uranium glass and produces memorial cremation glass pieces incorporating ash.
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Further reading: blownopportunities.setmore.com · Yelp · Facebook · Reddit
last checked: 2026-06-23