Brian's pictures

[Brian Newman]

Finally figured out GIMP

[Brian Newman]

My security team and some work.

[Brian Newman]

Sorry for the photo quality, I will try to get some petter pictures to post.

[Breed]

Glass Chainmail!? I like it! A lot!

[Brian Newman]

I make necklaces. Keep the triangle going and then start leaving a space in the middle. Then start to taper both sides back down again.

[Brian Newman]

Mostly skull marbles

[rumplephorskin]

Nice work Brian

[PyroChixRock]

I'm diggin on those skill marbles! Show some close ups if you can.

[Brian Newman]

I can e-mail you a full size image or just zoom in on a few.

[PyroChixRock]

sure email me a full size eugenerain (at) gmail (dot) com change that to regular email format ;)

[Joseph Corcoran]

Damn you look like you just came off some un-inhabited island for like 5 years. :rollin

Nice work.

Good to put a face with the name.

[Brian Newman]

Damn you look like you just came off some un-inhabited island for like 5 years. :rollin

Nice work.

Good to put a face with the name.

You should see my friend Wilson

[Pfox_64]

Is there a tutorial on the skull marbles anywhere? BTW nice dreads! peace out :peace:

[Brian Newman]

Is there a tutorial on the skull marbles anywhere? BTW nice dreads! peace out :peace:
look on the contemporary marble makers board general discussion area for a thread called "skull marble (help?)"

[Brian Newman]

Another poor quality photo, this one of a walking cane. It is a whole bunch of skulls. it still needs a rubber foot.

[Brian Newman]

Did it by hand, B.T.W.

[Brian Newman]

Some more cane pics. They still don't do it justice.

[Garth Anderson]

Nice work, Brian. I seriously dig those skulls and eyeballs!

[Brian Newman]

I need to use a better camera.

[2scoops]

How did you do that chain? I dig it.

-Scoops

[Brian Newman]

Choose a "chainworthy" pendant. The one on the pool table is a butterfly cane slice bent to look 3-D landing on an implosion flower made with a rod of cobalt, borostix white, and clear sandwiched together so I get multicoloured petals with a concave underside(from the clear) and black pistels.
Stir up a rod of clear and colour, with the colour fading from white to blue. Strech this down at one end to around 3 1/2 mm and 2-3 inches long and make a round link through the pendant, holding it with tweezers and rounding it with a small graphite rod(5-6 mm). Make the clasp from the other end of the stirred rod by making a figure 8 with a narrow spot so the hook will lock in place, and make a hook with a narrow opening that will only fit over the narrow spot. From there you "just" make a link, and another, and another, and another, ect.
4 mm rod works for a faster clear chain that only takes half the time.
The chainmail piece that is pictured is started with 3mm rod.
I read somewhere that in centuries gone by, two tests of a lampworkers skill were chain, and "tying" an overhand knot in a tube without letting it touch itself. I still can't master that second one, though I have come close.
Brian.

[GlassDiver]

Great now i'm just going to sit around and try to tie knots all day.....HaHaHA. thanks for help on the board. nice mugshot

[medicatedMELTDOWN]

ive read its almost impossible to tie a knot with boro tube...............its a neon sign blowers way to show off..........but if you manage to pull it off more power to ya.

[NUBBLET]

I have braided boro , but not tied a knot yet , I may try that though.

[Brian Newman]

A couple more pictures

[Greymatter Glass]

Hey Brian, have ypu heard from anyone who wears one of your glass chains? how do they hold up?

-Doug

[Brian Newman]

Hey Brian, have ypu heard from anyone who wears one of your glass chains? how do they hold up?

-Doug
My son is tugging on mine right now, and the beard. I sleep with it on. I have had to repair some, reasons running from a cat chewing on one to the more common dropped or showing it to a friend who tried to force the clasp. Overall, they are pretty tough.
I have probably made 60 or 80 over the years.

[Matt Hess]

I love the pic of your dogs. They look like great best friends. I would be lost without my dog Sasha. You cant beat unconditional love.

[Brian Newman]

The sisters will be 2 on Nov. 22. Their names are Dubh ( pronounced "dove", it is gaalic for gypsy ) and Marley. Their mother is a husky/wolf(mostly arctic, some timber) and their father is a white shepard/wolf(arctic)

[Matt Hess]

Nice Brian. You cant beat a husky wolf mix. For that matter a wolf mixed with anything is the shits. I got a German because of how close they resemble a wolf. I wanted a malamute or husky but its to damn hot here in Florida. And I thought it would be cruel to the dog to put them through that much heat. My big girl is seven. Im allready dreading that sad day when she is not well enough to stay on this earth. I was just thinking today about how I would respectfully remeber her around my house. Maybe a big picture of her with her birth and death year on it. Still not sure on that either though. I would most likeley cry like a little girl every time I saw it. Anyway enough emotional weirdness. Im gonna go burn something.

[Brian Newman]

Took some more pictures yesterday and the day before. This bell is what I made Nicole for her birthday earlier this year.

[FLAGSTAFFglass]

Is that a Pacu or Piranha in the background? Sweet ringer on the bell.

[Brian Newman]

Buster is a piranha, at least 10 years old. He is in the small tank because he was sick, and we didn't want him eaten by his 5 smaller tankmates in the 90 gallon.

[Brian Newman]

Another chain.

[Brian Newman]

And progress on the chainmail.

[Brian Newman]

6 skulls in one marble.

[LTD]

Damn man them skulls is sik! I have done chain mail for years never thought of doin it with glass.

[Brian Newman]

Here is the first piece of chainmail I ever made(1999), come back to me to be improved. I had been working on it for far too long, and wanted to have it done, so I had finished it with regular links. It now has the round links it deserves.
Before and after:

[burnoutboy]

Brian,
that's sick!!
i am a huge fan of your glass!!!!

[Brian Newman]

"Art" bound for a gallery.

[Brian Newman]

A letter opener.

[blazeoffire]

That is cool
nice job

[JDeMoss]

If you ever went to prison you could make a killing in cigarettes melting down peoples reading glasses into those for shanks.

[Brian Newman]

A set of wine glasses.

[Blade]

nice.
got any closeups of the milli

[Brian Newman]

My camera is worse in close-up mode. I took a bunch just now, and the first is the best of those. The second picture I just cropped the original picture and didn't re-size things.

[Brian Newman]

Chainmail finished!

[Brian Newman]

I was a bit off on the point placement on this set, but it was my first try.

[knaz]

My dads a hunter he would dig something like that.

[drewspuppet]

You inspired me.. I made a letter opener today.
My handle was great.. need a little help on the knife shape
to match the skills on yours.

[Meerkat]

is that knife sharp on the edges ? I was thinking about makinga glass knife and then grinding down the edges with diamond dremil bits I have.

[LAG]

That first picture of chain under your gorgeous dogs?? I would love to see a clearer image of it. It is fascinating...or looks so...

[EnonEmouse]

http://www.thegldg.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2383&stc=1&d=1152303556
A letter opener.

Your letter opener is totally awesome!!!!! I Love it big time!!!


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EnonEmouse