Mushrooms

[jes]

here are some frit mushrooms tops with twisted rods stems all three together on frit glass base, jes

http://www.glassline.net/Gallery/showphoto.php/photo/2421/ppuser/2500

[CripSkillz]

I cant get the pic to come up try ataching it right here in teh thread

[Swampy]

^ cos you got too much porn on your machine mang :-)

How's about this then;

http://www.glassline.net/Gallery/data/576/medium/marbles_and_jungle_mushroom_020.jpg

[CripSkillz]

Oh thats cool

site musta jstu been down for em earlier workin fine now

cool shit

[vetropod]

Nice work! I'd sit under those any day :D

[Meerkat]

Sweet, would you be willing to share how you made them, they look like something I would like to try out myself.

[drewspuppet]

hey man very cool. do you know dan p?

[jes]

Hi, so i wil try to explain the general process, i just take the frits small and large reduction type silvery frits and put them mixed together in a stainless steel mixxing bbowl, i take a rod 19mill and get it hot to accept the frits plenty heat melt in the color then i use a marble mold and shape the mushroom top then i draw lines of color down the rest of the clear rod and pull it out and twist for the stem, and added some frit in the middle, then i got the top hot again and went for another frit dip but didnt melt it in all the way so be texture oh and i played around alittle bit with stringers and dots on the top before the final texturized frit. they all had punties on the center of the tops and went in kiln while i heated up a peice of 19mill got a ball of it hot on the end fritted it up hot agian held the hot end twords the graphit on my table and put my dimond shears close to the cold spot and around the hot spot and pressed out a (cookie foot) do they call them cookie feet or rookie cookie its like a furnace technique. well then i puntied onto the bottem, center and just fused the mushrooms on one by one then polished up the punty mark and into the kiln, wAlaa, my first attempt at three dee mushrooms, i did the step by step for all skill levels i am learning so much that i hope you are patient with my articulations to explain my techniques thanks for looking here is my website to see more pictures and youtube demo for qiuck clear gobleto jes oh and drwes Puppet have dan call he has my #

http://www.mnartists.org/Jes_Durfee

[Meerkat]

thanks, that was a a good explination, I gave you rep points