Working by myself, I can only produce a limited number of marbles at a time. I employ the same hand gathering processes that were used at the M.F. Christensen & Son Co., Akro Agate, Peltier Glass, and The Christensen Agate Co..

Each marble starts as a bit of glass manipulated on a punty rod. The glass is heated up as hot as possible and then cut from the punty rod with a pair of glass shears - left image. Once the gob has been placed into the rollers, it is then rolled into a sphere shape - middle image. After the marble is done forming, it falls off the end of the rollers into a metal chute - video below. From there I pick the finished sphere up with tongs and then place it into an annealing oven to slowly cool over a 12 hour period.